Daycare Teacher

Job Description

Transylvania County Child Development is looking for a Daycare Teacher I to perform educational work in teaching a group of pre-school children at a large childcare facility. The Daycare Teacher I is responsible for teaching an enrichment program to help children develop to their potential physically, mentally, and emotionally. Work includes conducting lessons plans, childcare, participation parent/teacher conferences to review the needs of individual children, and more!

Ideal candidates may have experience as a Preschool Teacher, Early Childhood Educator, Day Care Teacher, Child Care Teacher, Pre-K Teacher, Head Start Teacher, Early Childhood Specialist, Lead Child Care Teacher, Nursery School Teacher, Child Development Teacher.

• Plans and carries out the daily in-door and out-door educational activities.
• Interacts and cares for children complying with all NC Child Care Requirements, including Developmental Day components, center policies, Creative Curriculum and NC Foundations requirements, and Sanitation regulations.
• Plans activities that provide for the needs of the children, including social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development.
• Setting up the physical environment to meet these needs while also being stimulating, safe, and challenging.
• Assigns and supervises the activities of the aides and volunteers.
• Maintains adequate supplies and sees that equipment is kept in good condition.
• Discusses with parents' individual child's progress and plans objectives to meet their needs.
• Plans meals and supervises food preparation.
• Attends and participates in general staff meetings and staff development conferences.
• Collects data and maintains developmental binders for all assigned children.
• Educates parents on various childcare topics as they pertain to childhood development.
• Builds a rapport with the families of the children, to provide the children with a sense of security.
• Converses with parents at drop off and pick up to share pertinent information as it pertains to each individual child.
• Keeps the physical environment of the classroom clean, organized, and well maintained.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Knowledge of child growth and development and planning programs to appropriately meet the physical, mental, and emotional needs of children.
• Knowledge of good health practices.
• Ability to establish rapport with children and their parents in order to obtain information concerning needs of individual children.
• Ability to prepare and maintain records and reports.
• Ability to exercise good judgement in appraising situations and making decisions.

Minimum Education and Experience:

• Graduation from a four-year college or university preferably with a degree in early childhood education, nursery education, or elementary education and 2 years of experience; or Graduation from high school and 4 years' experience in working with young children in a nursery school, kindergarten, elementary school, or a day care facility.

Physical Demands
This work requires the regular exertion of up to 10 pounds of force, frequent exertion of up to 25 pounds of force and occasional exertion of up to 50 pounds of force; work regularly requires speaking or hearing and using hands to finger, handle or feel, frequently requires standing, walking, climbing or balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling and reaching with hands and arms and occasionally requires sitting, tasting or smelling and lifting;

work requires close vision, distance vision, ability to adjust focus, depth perception, color perception and peripheral vision; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly or quickly; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound;

work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, visual inspection involving small defects and/or small…