Head Teacher

Job Details

Job Location:

Hartford, CT 06106

Position Type:
Full Time

Education Level: Graduate Degree

Travel Percentage:
Yes, travel required

Job Shift: Day

Head Teacher

Early Care and Education

Non-Exempt

8

Instructional Leader

The purpose of this position is to support the Agency’s needs by providing developmentally appropriate care and education for children in accordance with established principles of early childhood education including but not limited to the Office of Early Childhood Daycare Regulations, National Association for the Education of Young Children Accreditation Standards, and Child and Adult Food Care Program. Act as a role model to staff by emphasizing punctuality, professionalism and fairness.

Establish an educational setting that meets the highest standards of quality in all domains.

The list of essential functions, as outlined herein, is intended to be representative of the tasks performed within this classification. It is not necessarily descriptive of any one position in the class. The omission of an essential function does not preclude management from assigning duties not listed herein if such functions are a logical assignment to the position.

• In the absence of Instructional Leader or Assistant Director, or designee, assist to monitor staff arrival and departure times to ensure compliance to appropriate ratios and group sizes.
• Assist to monitor staff breaks and lunch breaks to ensure timely return to ensure adequate coverage for all staff to have breaks and lunch breaks.
• Assist to reassign staff as appropriate to bring center into compliance.
• Ensure all parent concerns are acknowledged promptly in absence of on-site manager.
• Immediately communicate all concerns to the Instructional Leader or Assistant Director to ensure parent concerns are addressed promptly.
• Support Instructional Leader or Assistant Director with staff meetings, in-service trainings, and administrative duties as requested.
• Oversee all emergencies, incidents and accidents in absence of Instructional Leader or Assistant Director.
• Inform management immediately of any accidents requiring medical attention and or emergency medical personnel attention.

• Ensure children are supervised by sight and sound at all times as stated in CRT Supervision Handbook. Ensure all others working in classroom are in compliance.
• Comply with and enforce CRT Supervision Policy and Procedures of children by ensuring, including but not limited to, the use of supervision cards and appropriate name to face counts, and maintaining appropriate teacher to child ratios and group sizes.
• Attend team meetings, CRT trainings, Planning and Placement Team (PPT) meetings, Parent Teacher Conferences, and other meetings as required or mandated.
• Complete required paperwork in a timely manner in accordance with CRT policy and procedure. Such paperwork shall include but not be limited to, accident/incident reports, individual emergency contact information for each child, first aid kit checklists, daily safety checklists, daily health checklist, playground checklist, attendance, meal counts, etc.
• Responsible for overall safety, sanitation, and cleanliness of classroom at all times.
• Maintain that all classrooms and playground(s) in center are well organized and free from clutter at all times.
• Ensure safe working environment and follow all agency safety procedures and reporting.
• Perform and complete all other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

• Provide a developmentally appropriate curriculum and daily plan in accordance with assigned CRT curriculum, policies and procedures.
• Comply with deadlines established for completion of daily and weekly tasks as assigned by the Instructional Leader and all other content areas as assigned.
• Ensure the Learning Experience Plan (LEP) and all accompanying documentation is completed weekly and given to the Instructional Leader for review as required, by specific timelines.
• Collaborate with Instructional Leader to help understand identified special needs children, to individualize each child's needs and goals as needed.
• Establish behavioral strategies in conjunction with Instructional Leader for any child with behavioral challenges that impede his/her learning experience.
• Implement Individual Education Plans (IEP) as needed.

• Communicate professionally and effectively with all families and children daily.
• Communicate with and respond to individual children during activities and routine by communicating with children at eye level, using appropriate tone of voice and modeling and questioning to extending children's thinking and language.
• Use and model positive guidance techniques with all children in accordance with CRT policies and procedures and Department of Children and Families Abuse and Neglect Training.
• Ensure…