Northview Preschool Teacher

The Northview Preschool Teacher’s primary responsibility is to lead classes, create curriculum, and keep parents updated on their child’s progress. This position is a nonexempt part-time hourly position in the Northview Preschool Ministry and reports to the Northview Preschool Director.

• Shows commitment to Cultural Values
• Updates attendance sheets daily and monthly
• Maintains student records with accurate and complete information
• Maintains student files
• Enforces all administrative policies and rules
• Helps maintain facility in a safe and satisfactory condition
• Prepares reports on students and activities as required by administration
• Attends professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competencies
• Keeps up on current knowledge in the field of early childhood education
• Responds to emails and voicemail from parents within 24 hours

• Demonstrates God’s love to children through Bible study and living by example
• Assimilates arriving children to the school environment by greeting them, helping them remove outerwear, and selecting activities of interest to them
• Establishes clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicates those objectives to children
• Provides a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate and use in learning activities and imaginative play
• Teaches basic skills such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills
• Establishes and enforces rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order
• Reads books to entire classes or small groups
• Organizes and leads activities designed to promote physical, mental and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling and field trips
• Attends to children’s basic needs by feeding them, dressing them, and changing their diapers
• Prepares materials and classroom for class activities
• Teaches proper eating habits
• Serves snacks and oversees lunch
• Demonstrates activities to children
• Arranges indoor and outdoor space to facilitate creative play, motor-skill activities and safety
• Organizes and labels materials and displays student’s work in a manner appropriate for their ages and perceptual skills
• Confers with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning by following approved curricula
• Supervises, evaluates and plans for substitutes
• Plans and supervises class projects, field trips, visits by guests or other experiential activities and guides students in learning from those activities

• Observes and evaluates children’s performance, behavior, social development and physical heath
• Uses assessments to help determine children’s developmental levels, needs, and potential
• Identifies children showing signs of emotional, developmental or health-related problems and discusses them with supervisors, parents or guardians and child development specialists
• Meets with parents/guardians to discuss their children’s progress and needs, determines their priorities for their children, and suggests ways that they can promote learning and development through the assessments
• Prepares and implements remedial programs for students requiring extra help
• Meets with Director and other staff to review curriculum plans and activities and evaluate programs effectiveness
• Maintains records on each child’s progress and development for curriculum planning
• Adapts teaching methods and instructional materials to meet student’s varying needs and interests
• Works with co-teacher to plan and implement the daily program of activities
• Sets up and maintains a well-organized, safe and attractive classroom environment conducive to optimal growth and development of children
• Develops a positive relationship with each child and promotes the development of self-esteem and self-discipline
• Observes each child daily to assess skills, interests and needs and use this information to facilitate learning and growth
• Establishes a positive relationship with each child’s family and shares information about the child’s day at the school
• Helps parents to understand the…