Preschool Teacher

and the job listing Expires on July 12, 2026

• 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
• Assesses 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
• 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…
• You have a PDIS Level 3 Credential (required)
• Experience working with children ages infancy through five, including lesson planning (required)
• Don’t quite meet all the educational requirements? Consider applying anyway and we can discuss a professional development plan to get you there.

Hope House Colorado is committed to empowering teen moms, changing the future for two generations! We are a future‑thinking organization, with great benefits, striving to be experts in our field. We invest in each employee, providing opportunities to pursue individual passions, gifts and strengths. Our staff is a unified team, pursuing excellence in all we do. We serve with integrity, humility and respect for one another, in an environment that combines professionalism with fun, humor and even a little bit of silliness each day!

In support of our mission and vision, the Hope House Colorado Early Learning Center believes all children are a gift from God and are created in His image. This belief is at the heart of our philosophy and desire to nurture the whole child in a play‑based learning environment that is a fun, engaging, and nurturing place of belonging for children of Hope House teen moms and staff, ranging in ages from 6 weeks to 5 years old.

We believe that learning is best supported when built on a strong social‑emotional foundation in an environment where children feel seen, heard, loved, and valued and ultimately free to be who God created them to be. We believe in a family centered approach, working in partnership with families to help children build a strong, secure, social‑emotional foundation allowing them to realize their full potential.

$44,720-$51,688/year depending on education and experience

This role is expected to work 40 hours/week on the HHC campus, except when offsite for HHC work‑related purposes. The existing schedule is eight hours per day between 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.

• Health Benefits
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  Employees may elect medical, dental, vision & life insurance plans.
• Simple IRA
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  Employees may choose to make salary reduction contributions through HHC’s Simple IRA plan and HHC will match the employee’s contribution up to a…