Child Development Teacher (PCEP

Job Overview

Responsible for providing a safe, nurturing, and developmentally appropriate environment that promotes each child’s cognitive, social, emotional, health, and physical development. Develop individualized educational goals for each child and assess each child’s outcomes to monitor evolving progress, and the use of various teaching strategies with an emphasis on language and literacy skills to meet the needs of each individual child. Maintaining a high-quality environment with attention to safety and health prevention measures for infants, toddlers, and twos at all times.

• Be familiar with and adhere to the Head Start Program Performance Standards, State of Texas Child Care Licensing requirements, and NAEYC regulations.
• Conduct daily screenings and assessments using Cognitive Toy Box Assessments, ASQs, and the AVANCE PCEP Framework tools, and conduct home visits as needed.
• Maintain a 1 Teacher to 4 Child ratios at all times with no more than 8 infants and or toddlers in a classroom.
• Ensures all policies and procedures are followed when changing diapers for infants and toddlers.
• Responsible for reporting to supervisor any patterns of absences or any special circumstances surrounding absenteeism.
• Responsible for initiating and documenting appropriate family support procedures for all children with four or more consecutive unexcused absences. These procedures include home visits or other direct contact with the child’s parent(s).
• Participates in PCEP Recruitment efforts at events, in the community and the school district, pre-service training plans, AVANCE Inc. PCEP annual Training and participates in start-of-the-year programming, conducts home visits to complete assessments and follow-ups,, maintenance of records, and conducts other duties as assigned.
• Actively encourages parents to participate in the program and to complete a minimum of six home visits during the program year for each child enrolled in the program. . The major purpose of the home visits is to observe parent-child interaction with the AVANCE Toy and to enhance the parental role in the growth and development of the child.
• Files and tracks program required information in the family folder. Maintain an open, friendly, professional relationship with all staff and families, to include respect for culture, diversity, and ethnicity.
• Plan and implement developmentally appropriate activities that promote children’s learning in literacy, language, cognitive, social/emotional, and physical/health development on a weekly basis and follow classroom daily schedule.
• Implement “best practices” approaches and learning materials.
• Establish positive, caring and nurturing relationships with children.
• Use a variety of strategies to flexibly group children for the purposes of instruction, promoting children’s development, supporting collaboration among children, and building a caring community of active enthusiastic learners.
• Use different teaching strategies to ensure every child is successful in the classroom, by providing a balance of large group, small group, and teacher-directed, child-initiated activities that promote exploration, inquiry, creativity, and independence.
• Conduct daily child observations and quarterly developmental assessments to collect information on individual children’s learning and progress.
• Plan individualized approaches to promote each child’s learning and development.
• Communicate with parents regarding children’s progress on a regular basis, both informally and formally.
• Encourage parents to be involved in the curriculum through weekly family activities, classroom volunteering and attending monthly parent meetings, where they will be able learn more about the curriculum and give staff feedback and suggestions on center and classroom activities.
• Conduct family-style meals, serves to promote good nutrition and food safety practices.
• Attend IFSP meetings, which result in incorporating IFSPs in the lesson plans.
• Report suspected neglect, abuse, medical conditions/illnesses to immediate supervisor.
• Report to work on time and work a flexible schedule when necessary, ensuring the needs of the children are met.
• Encourag…