Lead infant teacher is resposible for care of children ages 6 months to 22 months.
continue care routines, bottle feedings, diaper routines, and most importantly interactions and connections, relationships with infants daily.
Requirements:
- High School diploma
- Infant experience
- CPR/First Aid certified or willing to get certified within 30 days of employment.
- Become part of Montana's early childhood practitioner registry
- Fingerprints and background check
- 14 hours of ECE training required by the state of Montana
Child Development & Learning
- Identify and understand developmental periods of early childhood across physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and linguistic domains
- Identify brain development including executive function, learning motivation, and life skills
- Understand the importance of social interaction, relationships and play
- Identify biological, environmental, protective, and adverse factors that impact children’s development and learning
- Understand and value each child as an individual with unique developmental variations, ability to make choices, strengths, interests, challenges, approaches to learning, experiences and abilities.
- Understand family, social, cultural and community influences on children’s learning and development
- Identify structural inequities and trauma that adversely impact young children’s learning and development
- Know that quality early childhood education influences children’s lives
Family Teacher Partnerships & Community Connection
- Understand some of the ways that various socioeconomic conditions; family structures, relationships, stressors, adversity, and supports; home languages, cultural values and ethnicities create the context for young children’s lives
- Recognize families as the first and most influential “teachers” in their children’s learning and development
- Understand that children can thrive across diverse family structures and that all families bring strengths
- Collaborate as partners with families in young children’s development and learning through respectful and reciprocal relationships and engagement.
- Affirm and respect families’ cultures, religious beliefs, language(s) (including dialects), various structures of families and different beliefs about parenting
- Identify types of community resources that can support young children’s learning and development and to support families Partner with colleagues to help assist families in finding needed community resources
Child Observation, Documentation and Assessment
- Identify and understand the purposes of assessment
- Understand that observation and documentation are central practices in assessment Understand assessment as a positive tool to support young children’s learning and development
- Be willing to learn common types of assessments that are used in early learning settings
- Under the supervision of the director and practiced professionals, support the use of assessment-related activities in curriculum and in daily routines to facilitate authentic assessment and to make assessment an integral part of professional practice
- Understand that assessments must be selected or modified to identify and support children with differing abilities
- Understand legal and ethical issues connected to assessment practices
- Partner with families and other professionals to support assessment-related activities
Developmentally Appropriate Practice
- Establish positive and supportive relationships and interactions with young children
- Understand that each child brings individual experiences, knowledge, interests, abilities, culture and languages to the early learning setting
- Support a classroom culture that respects and builds on all that children bring to the early learning setting
- Understand that there are teaching practices that are core to working with young children including differentiating instruction for individual children and groups of children, using play in teaching practices, and using teaching practices that build young children’s executive function skills.
- use developmentally appropriate, culturally and linguistically relevant teaching practices to facilitate development and learning and classroom management
- Under supervision of the Director, use teaching practices with young children that are appropriate to their level of development, their individual characteristics, and the sociocultural context in which they live
Knowledge, application and integration of curriculum.
- Understand how young children learn across core content areas
- Identify early learning standards of Montana and Colorado
- Under guidance and supervision of the Director, implement curriculum(s) across content areas through creating daily lesson plans that are DAP and align with each individual's developmental ability.
Professional Development
- Identify as a committed professional in the early childhood education field
- Uphold 16 hours of ECE training per year
- Understand the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct and abide by its ideals and principles
- Practice confidentiality, sensitivity and respect for young children, their families, and colleagues
- Understand the basic elements of professional guidelines such as national, state, or local standards and regulations and position statements from professional associations
- Understand and follow relevant laws such as reporting child abuse and neglect, health and safety practices, and the rights of children with developmental delays and disabilities
- Use professional communication skills, including technology-mediated strategies, to effectively support young children’s learning and development and work with families and colleagues
- Reflect on own needs and incorporate self-care into routines to maintain positive engagement with young children and professionalism with families and colleagues
Essential Duties and Responsibilities and Expectations:
- Comply with, promote, and enforce all licensing, and program policies.
- Strictly adhere to all governmental and program policies prohibiting abuse, neglect, or exploitation of children. This includes reporting any suspected offenses on the part of other individuals, immediately, to the Department of Public Health and Human Services and to the employee's supervisor.
- Submit all assigned paperwork (including time sheets, leave requests, etc.) to supervisory staff in a timely and complete manner, and oversee assigned staff in their adherence to the same standard.
- Help promote positive program image & successful public relations throughout all assigned work.
- Display courtesy and friendliness when interacting with others while on duty.
- Promote open and effective communications (within and outside the program) by following proper chain of command. This includes the obligation to provide feedback and important information to appropriate staff, properly reporting to supervisory staff, and refraining from sharing job-related information with individuals whose jobs do not require the information.
- Strictly protect confidentiality of information concerning families and children in services, as well as fellow staff; this includes refraining from sharing confidential information with individuals whose job does not require the information.
- Must believe in the mission and principles of Alberton Early Learning Center
- Complete all paperwork and weekly lesson plans in a timely manner, as required.
- Remain current on the Practitioner Registry by completing by a minimum of 16 hours of approved childcare training each year as required by CCL and renewing online at mtecp.org.
- Perform routine janitorial and maintenance duties in the child care facility.
- Attend all training and staff meetings.
- All additional duties as assigned.
- Must be able to comfortably sit, stand, and walk for long periods of time as necessary to complete assigned job duties.
- Must be able to sit on the floor for extended periods of time.
- Must be able to lift and carry children up to 40 pounds as needed.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $15.00 - $18.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Benefits:
- Childcare
- Employee discount
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
Patient demographics:
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- No nights
Experience:
- Infant care: 1 year (Required)
- childcare: 1 year (Required)
License/Certification:
- CPR Certification (Preferred)
Shift availability:
Ability to Commute:
- Alberton, MT 59820 (Required)
Work Location: In person