Head Start Teacher

Starting Date:
August  (187-day calendar)

Salary Range: $35, depending on education and experience.

Hours:

Mon.

-Fri. 8:00-4:00

To facilitate the social, emotional, mental, and physical development of children. To be a team member in developing learning centers and lesson plans to focus on children’s individual needs.

Organize the classroom environment and plan hands on activities to promote language, social/emotional, fine motor, and gross motor, cognitive and self-help development. Utilize equipment and materials to carry out program objectives which include art, literature, music, self-awareness, motor and science.

Relate to high-risk families and their children. Develop communication skills to ensure appropriate quality services to parents and staff. Develop professional relationships with families and encourage them to participate in the program.

• Bending/stooping/squatting
• Lifting up to 40lbs - moving furniture or lifting children
• Sitting in 12” chairs and sitting on the floor for 15–20-minute spans with legs folded.
• Must be able to quickly move around the classroom or playground to ensure safety of children, including being able to get up from a sitting position quickly to assist a child.
• Model physical activities for children such as running, hopping, jumping, skipping, galloping, throwing/catching/dribbling balls, etc.