Toddler Assistant Teacher

SUMMARY: Reporting to the Head of Early Childhood, the primary role of the Assistant Teacher is to provide an additional classroom presence to support teachers. The Assistant Teacher will maintain a professional demeanor and rapport with the teaching teams with which they are assigned to work.

• ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Communicate with classroom teachers daily to ensure continuity of planning and programming of the curriculum and projects in which the class may be engaged;
• Work with teaching teams and adapt to the developmental needs and ethos of the classrooms supported;
• Help to navigate and maintain the daily schedule and routines, distribution of snacks, supervision of students during arrival, activity time, and dismissal, set up and/or supervision of lunch and rest materials, support with prepping materials or yard space, support during activities and curriculum implementation, periodic leading of circle or story times;
• Support Toddler morning daycare, if assigned;
• Verbally communicate with children in a positive manner aligned with the teaching goals of the grade level and principles of Responsive Classroom and RULER;
• Utilize appropriate teacher language, signals, and responses to student needs or remediation consistent with CEE early childhood program expectations;
• Communicate clearly and reassuringly, with parents during arrival and dismissal, administrators, and colleagues about curriculum, children, and child development issues, both verbally and in writing;
• Demonstrate professionalism through reliability, punctuality, cooperation, organization, participation in meetings and staff development opportunities, as well as personal appearance and self-care;
• Provide for the physical safety of children through anticipation and removal of hazards, visual observation of children, and appropriately responding to injuries and unexpected circumstances.

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty to the satisfaction of the administration. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Minimum requirements include a valid California Child Development Associate Teacher Permit and training and experience in early childhood classrooms. Bachelor's degree preferred.

BEHAVIORAL SKILLS: Demonstrate personal integrity, friendliness, patience, fairness, openness, non-defensiveness, sensitivity, flexibility, collegiality, and enthusiasm.

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret written documents, professional literature and material pertinent to child development and education; ability to write reports, child evaluations from a developmental perspective, curricular plans, and letters to parents and others; ability to verbally present information and respond to children, parents, colleagues, and administrators in areas of early childhood curriculum and child development, as well as speak and write from a child-specific perspective.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide using whole numbers, fractions and decimals; create and interpret graphs; compute ratio and percent and use a calculator.

TECHNICAL SKILLS: Ability to use simple tools and machines, such as copiers, laminators, and computers.

REASONING ABILITY: Ability to solve practical problems and apply common sense in dealing with every day and emergency situations; ability to interpret a variety of instructions in written, oral, diagram and schedule form.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee is required to stand, walk, sit, climb, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, stoop, and kneel. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move children of all sizes in the classroom. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an assistant teacher encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. The noise level in the work environment varies from quiet to moderate to noisy.

Salary : $65,000 - $75,000