Early Learning Center Lead Teacher

Kendal at Oberlin is a full-service life plan community that primarily serves older adults in the Quaker tradition. Residents receive lifetime healthcare services—including short- and long-term nursing care, memory care, and assisted living—while enjoying an independent and enriching living experience.

Kendal at Oberlin’s Early Learning Center is currently seeking a creative and enthusiastic full-time Lead Teacher
. Our NAEYC-accredited program features unique intergenerational programming, giving children the special opportunity to learn and grow alongside our beloved Grand friends who live on campus. The Lead Teacher will play a key role in shaping the minds and hearts of young learners by creating a caring, consistent, and engaging classroom environment, preparing curriculum materials, and maintaining a safe, accepting educational setting.

Responsibilities:

• Plan and adapt a creative curriculum based on preschool developmental milestones.
• Assess children’s development and learning by collecting samples of drawings and writings and adding them to the children’s portfolios.
• Pay attention to and support children’s interests, skills, and knowledge.
• Learn and support all KELC curricula such as Conscious Discipline, set clear behavior limits, and explain reasons.

Qualifications &

Experience:

• Minimum of three (3) years’ experience working with children ages 2–5.
• Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education, Child Development, or Special Education.
• Current First Aid, CPR, Communicable Disease, and Child Abuse Recognition certifications (or ability to obtain within the first 90 days).
• Familiarity or training in Creative Curriculum and Conscious Discipline is a plus.
• Genuine love for working with children and a commitment to preparing them for kindergarten.
• Ability to take children outside in cold weather.
• Ability to lift children, if needed, weighing 30–50 pounds.

Desired Qualities:

• Thought Provoking – capable of making others think deeply on a subject.
• Leader – inspires teammates to follow.
• Functional Expert – considered a thought leader on a subject.
• Detail Oriented – capable of carrying out a task with all necessary details to complete it well.
• Dedicated – devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity.
• Team Player – works well as a member of a group.
• Innovative – consistently introduces new ideas and demonstrates original thinking.
• Loyal – shows firm and constant support to a cause.
• Enthusiastic – shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest.

Certification Requirements:

• CPR
• First Aid

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