Employment Type : Full-Time
Position Purpose Maintain a high quality early childhood classroom environment with attention to health and safety prevention measures; curriculum and assessment strategies focused on school readiness; and strength-based family engagement that promotes parents as the child’s first teacher. Work collaboratively with other classroom staff to develop and implement daily plans for children’s school readiness that involves culturally responsive, integrated service delivery of child development, disabilities, and mental health that supports learning environments to: a) enhance children’s cognitive, social, and emotional development and b) promote children’s growth in language, literacy, mathematics, science, social and emotional development, creative arts, physical development, and approaches to learning. Essential Job Responsibilities: Performance Indicators The Learning Environment & School Readiness 1. Design daily lessons and individualized activities that connect to early learning 2. Work collaboratively with coworkers in the classroom’s day-to-day operations to 3. Maintain individual child portfolios that contain ongoing work samples that 4. Conduct developmental screenings and daily ongoing assessment to determine 5. Model and plan for experiences that reinforce positive discipline practices in the 6. Implement curriculum to fidelity and conduct objective ongoing observations of 7. Create an organized, safe, classroom environment that assures the health and 8. Be knowledgeable of and consistently demonstrate understanding of the Family Engagement 1. Establish a positive relationship with each child’s family. 2. Work collaboratively with families to develop an ongoing system of 3. Include families in planning and implementing family engagement activities and 4. Encourage families to be advocates through their participation in parent 5. Recognize and promote the importance of parents as a child’s first teacher. Community Networking 1. Coordinate with local agencies, community service organizations, and 2. Provide information on the First Start Partnerships for Children and Families 3. Be a representative of First Start Partnerships for Children and Families’ vision 4. Be a representative of NAEYC’s code of ethical conduct. Staff Supervision and Development 1. Monitor the performance, attendance, certifications, required documents and 2. Provide skill development and mentoring to staff progressing in their position by 3. Communicate areas of performance improvement to staff and promote training 4. Document and review areas of strength and areas of growth with other classroom 5. Conduct probationary and annual performance evaluations based on quantifiable 6. Ensure support teaching staff progress towards and maintain educational goals and requirements for their position. 7. Provide training and in-classroom mentoring of classroom volunteers. Communication & Professional Development 1. Participate in staff meetings, center activities, staff development and in-service as 2. Keep informed of current knowledge in the field of Early Childhood Education. 3. Demonstrate integrity, professionalism and confidentiality on a daily basis. 4. Maintain professional development requirements and credentials required for Minimum Requirements Childhood Education, Child Development or a closely related field is required. supervisory experience preferred. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities simultaneously. WHY JOIN FIRST START PARTNERSHIPS? First Start Partnerships for Children and Families is an EEO Employer. The job description is intended to provide an overview of the requirements of the position. As such, it is not necessarily all?inclusive, and the job may require other essential and/or non?essential functions, duties or responsibilities not listed herein. Management, at its sole discretion, reserves the right to change, alter, and/or Job Type: Full-time Pay: $18.75 - $22.51 per hour Benefits: Schedule: Education: Experience: Work Location: One location
standards, reinforce developmentally appropriate practices, and promote
learning across all domains of development.
plan and implement developmentally appropriate practices, activities, and
lessons that meet children’s needs, interests, and stage of development.
documents each child’s progress and skill development.
each child’s needs and utilize results to create differentiated learning plans to
support each child’s individual school readiness skill attainment.
classroom setting.
children’s development.
safety of all students.
program’s policies & procedures.
communication through home visits, conferences, and daily interactions to share
information about each child’s progress and development.
volunteer opportunities.
committee meetings, providing curriculum input, and by becoming members of
the program’s governing councils.
educational providers and partners.
program to the community.
and mission while working in the communities.
timesheets of support teaching staff. As applicable, provide direct supervision to
Assistant Teachers, CSS, and Itinerant Teachers.
performing on-the-job technical assistance and mentoring of specific skills.
that reflects the individual needs of staff members and/or the team as a whole.
staff on a consistent basis, and work collaboratively with Program Coordinator to
utilize Performance Improvement Plans when warranted. Ensure documentation
is forwarded to Human Resources.
and objective criteria, utilizing agency forms and checklists designed for
evaluations.
scheduled.
the position.
otherwise modify this job description at anytime. Nothing in this job description is intended to create a contract of employment of any type or kind. Employment at First Start Partnerships for Children and Families strictly on an at-will basis.