Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Teach 9:00 – 12:30 Monday-Friday, and assist lead teacher with planning and activity prep until approximately 2:00
- Use the play-based High Scope and AMAZE curricula to individualize instruction for a group of approximately 10 toddlers or 16 preschoolers. The focus will be on developing children’s social-emotional skills, emotion regulation and expression of feelings, cultural sensitivity, and friendships with other children.
- Follow a therapeutic preschool model, with an emphasis placed on a predictable schedule and routine, structure, and rules for health and safety. Teachers will work to minimize transitions whenever possible and allow children uninterrupted time to play, learn, and solve problems.
- Take a hands-on approach to teaching, understanding that children at-risk for abuse and neglect require calm, consistent, reliable, supportive caregivers who are attuned to their strengths and areas of growth. Be proactive, flexible, mature, and professional. Provide leadership in the classroom as needed.
- Team with the lead teacher in preparing and maintaining classroom environments that are both therapeutic and developmentally-appropriate, using soothing colors, natural materials, order, and minimized clutter to communicate respect, warmth, and calm to the children. Monitor and assist in obtaining supplies, equipment, and repairs for the classroom environments.
- Team with the lead teacher in maintaining DHS Licensing and NAEYC Accreditation standards, including attention paid to one’s own continuing education.
- Team with the lead teacher in maintaining a high level of health and safety, ensure emergency procedures are known and practiced, and model a calm response to emergency situations for the children.
- Attend weekly classroom team meetings.
- Drive or aide on the mini school bus on a rotating schedule.
Experience and Qualification Requirements:
- At least 18 years of age
- Associate’s degree in Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Special Education, Elementary Education, Child Psychology, Psychology, Child Development, or Nursing required, or a Bachelor’s degree in any field plus two years of experience teaching toddlers or preschoolers required
- Knowledge of trauma and its impact on early development preferred
- CPR, First Aid, and Child Passenger Safety certified preferred
- Valid driver’s license and ability to pass Department of Transportation physical preferred
Additional Information:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear, stand, walk, sit, use hands to fingers, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee frequently is required to climb or balance and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and assist children with diapering and toilet-learning. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision and depth perception.
We seek to reflect the diversity of the Phillips neighborhood in our staff.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $22.00 - $24.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Retirement plan
Patient demographics:
Schedule:
Experience:
- Early childhood education: 2 years (Required)
Language:
- Spanish or Somali (Preferred)
Work Location: In person