Early Learning Center Infant Teacher

Description Position Summary

Are you looking for an opportunity to make a positive impact in the lives of children and families? This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our inaugural staff in our brand-new, beautifully designed early learning center with a focus on year-round, play-based education for infants through Pre-K children. The Hope House Colorado (HHC) Early Learning Center (ELC) is for Children of Hope House teen moms and staff.

As an early learning teacher at the ELC, you will be creating a safe, fun and engaging environment where children can learn, grow and thrive. You will create and maintain relationships with children and families to foster trust and work with other amazing staff to make HHC Early Learning Center a great place to work, have fun and make a positive impact.

An infant teacher is responsible for the supervision, responsive care, education and classroom management of a group of young children enrolled in the ELC. The teacher develops and maintains respectful and nurturing relationships and works collaboratively with parents, staff, and volunteers. As an infant teacher, you will work within a team to support children across all developmental domains by engaging in curriculum planning and implementation, and classroom management strategies, to meet each child's individual needs.

The infant teacher is knowledgeable about Colorado Child Care Licensing and health and safety rules and regulations. This position is responsible for maintaining complete and timely records and for maintaining the classroom and building safety and appearance. Teachers are responsible for continuing to develop professional techniques and skills that promote quality early childhood education.

• Build a positive, trusting and working relationship with each child and family through daily communication in a warm, approachable and supportive manner
• Provide consistent, nurturing and responsive interactions with each child using positive techniques
• Provide individualized care for children to ensure children’s health and safety
• Provide daily activities based on a child’s needs and interests that stimulate learning in all areas of child development to include physical, social, emotional and cognitive needs of children
• Plan and implement engaging, fun and developmentally appropriate daily lessons using the Creative Curriculum, providing individualized support for children to meet developmental milestones across all learning domains
• Plan, prepare and implement daily Orange Curriculum to foster the spiritual development of each child, including sending weekly parent cue cards home to support family engagement
• Assess each child’s developmental needs on an ongoing basis using the Teaching Strategies Gold Assessment tool, and share frequent updates with parents
• Works in collaboration with leadership team and early intervention professionals to provide parents with referrals to early intervention services for their child when necessary
• Positively interacts with classroom volunteers
• Participate in on site ongoing professional development to enhance individual skills as a learner to provide and ensure best practices and quality early childhood education
• Ensure compliance with Colorado Department of Human Services Licensing Regulations, and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Regulations that govern child care facilities
• Promote Hope House Colorado’s Core Values throughout the organization and external relationships

• Bachelor’s degree in early childhood education, child development, elementary education or early childhood special education or a bachelor's degree in an unrelated field with at least 36 college credit hours in early childhood education or related field (preferred) OR…
• Meet Colorado State Child Care Licensing educational qualification standards (required)
• You have a PDIS Level 3 Credential (required)
• You have a Infant Nursery Supervisor Credential (required), or willing to obtain within six months of hire
• You are able to properly lift infants and young toddlers into and out of a crib (required)
• Experience working with children ages infancy…