Head Start Lead Teacher

• Location 6 S. 2nd Street,Marshalltown, IA, 50158,United States
• Base Pay $22.59 - $27.35 / Hour
• Job Category Early Childhood Programs
• Employee Type Full Time Non-Exempt

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Description

Contribute to the mission and vision of MICA by creating a positive, respectful, and safe environment when working with children, families and agency and community partners. Provide a successful, safe and supervised educational setting for children. Promote the social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development of children. Encourage parent engagement in all aspects of the program. This position is responsible for providing oversight and leadership to the classroom team, including supervision of staff and responsibility for achieving and maintaining established educational thresholds of participants.

Supports MICA’s mission, vision, values, Ways of Working, and Whole Family Approach. This position may perform regular duties at alternative sites with permission of the Program Director

• Contribute to and participate in an effective classroom teaching team
• Develop and implement learning experiences that ensure effective curriculum implementation and use of assessment and promote children’s progress across the standards described in the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework:
  Ages Birth to Five and the Iowa Early Learning Standards to meet each child’s individual needs, interests, learning styles and individual goals that are compatible with the child’s family culture.
• Ensure the assigned curriculum is implemented with fidelity and support skills development in the areas of Approaches to Learning, Social and Emotional Development, Language and Literacy, Cognition, and Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development.
• Develop and implement weekly lesson plans.
• Develop positive and nurturing relationships with children.
• Interact and engage with children through conversations and facilitating activities in English.
• Engage in positive caregiving routines with children.
• Screen each child’s developmental, behavioral, motor, language, social, cognitive, and emotional skills as required.
• Meet with consultants to discuss child’s needs; implement plans as advised.
• Maintain a socially and emotionally safe and supportive climate in the classroom using Conscious Discipline practices and PBIS supports. Use Safety First strategies when appropriate.
• Maintain the safety and welfare of children at all times.
• Must be able to identify and recognize children and to observe them in their daily environments in order to assure their safety at all times.
• Maintain and arrange the equipment and materials in an appropriate, safe, healthy and orderly fashion in the classroom, on the playground and on field trips.
• Must be able to assist all children in all emergency and disaster drills and situations.
• Must be able to push and control an occupied wheelchair.
• Must maintain confidentiality of information about children and families at all times.
• Must obtain and maintain First Aid and CPR certifications.
• This position is a Mandatory Child Abuse Reporter.

• Provide oversight and leadership to the classroom team.
• Establish written classroom goals and implement action steps.
• Guide the work of classroom staff.
• Supervise volunteers and other adults in the classroom. This position supervises the following positions:
• Assistant Teachers in the classroom.
• Food Aides and/or Classroom Aides in the classroom.
• Completes Professional Development Plans (PDPs), including staff evaluations, for all staff supervised on regular basis per agency standards.
• Assures accurate and timely timesheets for all staff supervised.
• Provides guidance to staff as needed and as requested.
• Assures all staff receive required trainings by deadlines.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with families, program, agency and community partners, and volunteers as needed to provide excellent services.
• Conduct home visits and parent/teacher conferences with all families as required by program.
• Partner with parents to individualize the…