Parents as Teachers; PAT Educator

Parents as Teachers (PAT) Educator 2026-27

Fulton Early Childhood Center – Fulton, Missouri

• Job
• Final date to receive applications:
  Posted until filled
• Posted:
  Yesterday
• Starting Date:
  Immediately
• Employment Type:
  
  Full‑Time

2026-27 District Calendar (link)

• Fulton's calendar has 169 student days and 180 staff days.
• Snow days are built into our calendar and will not be made up.
• School begins on August 24, 2026, and ends on May 28, 2027.
• There are several planned breaks throughout the year:
• October 30
• November 23-27
• December 21-January 1
• March 26-April 2
• April 30

Purpose Statement

The job of a Parent Educator is to provide instruction to parents in the areas of parenting and child development and educational support to parents of preschool children (prenatal to kindergarten entry); acting as a liaison between school and community; providing information on educational and related support services available to eligible students and families; conveying information regarding school and/or district activities and procedures;

and assessing the need to make referrals to families to other agencies. This job reports to the Principal.

Essential Functions

• Communicates with a wide variety of personnel for the purpose of ensuring that resources will assist families that have been identified.
• Compiles child/family information for a variety of uses for the purpose of meeting program requirements.
• Conducts parent meetings/personal visits for the purpose of providing instruction related to child development information and/or identifying and providing instruction regarding the educational needs and problems involving children and their families.
• Confers with other teachers, parents, and/or appropriate community agency personnel for the purpose of assisting in evaluating a child's progress.
• Consistently interacts with students for the purpose of evaluating and educating students.
• Coordinates with community leaders and organizations for the purpose of building resources and expanding program capabilities.
• Evaluates the need for and provides families information about outside agencies for the purpose of ensuring the educational needs of students and families are met.
• Identifies at‑risk children for the purpose of providing support to improve child progress and ensuring the families ongoing involvement in the educational process.
• Maintains a variety of confidential and non‑confidential manual and electronic lists and records for the purpose of providing an up‑to‑date reference and audit trail for compliance.
• Participates in a variety of meetings, workshops, and committees for the purpose of conveying and/or gathering information required to perform functions and remaining knowledgeable with program guidelines.
• Prepares written materials (e.g. notes, memos, letters, newsletters, handouts, contact records, etc.) for the purpose of documenting activities, and/or conveying information.
• Recruits families to the program (e.g. creates fliers, writes newsletters, etc.) for the purpose of providing education and information for parents and meeting program requirements.
• Responds to inquiries from a variety of internal and external sources for the purpose of providing information and/or direction as may be required.
• Visits families via in‑home or virtual visits for the purpose of providing parenting and child development information, screening, and support.

Other Functions Performs other related duties as assigned for the purpose of ensuring the efficient and effective functioning of the work unit.

Skills Operating standard office equipment, using pertinent software applications, preparing and maintaining accurate records, and adhering to safety practices.

Knowledge Basic math (fractions, percent, ratios), reading technical information, composing documents, facilitating group discussions, solving practical problems, early childhood development and learning, community resources and principles of a community services program, school educational programs, codes, laws, rules, regulations, policies, English grammar, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary.

Ability Scheduling activities, meetings, and/or…