Home Based Teacher

Home-Based Teacher

Hourly Salary: $21.04/hour - $24.70/hour

The Home-Based Teacher partners with families to promote children's healthy development, school readiness, and long-term success through the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based home visiting services. This role implements developmentally appropriate curriculum, provides individualized support to children and caregivers, and fosters positive parent-child relationships while ensuring a safe, nurturing, and engaging learning experience within the home environment. The Home-Based Teacher maintains compliance with Head Start Performance Standards, applicable funding requirements, and Children's Aid policies, while building strong partnerships with families to support each child's cognitive, social-emotional, physical, and language development.

Reporting to the Education Director, this role is accountable for delivering high-quality home-based services, maintaining accurate documentation, ensuring regulatory compliance, and advancing the mission and values of Children's Aid.

To help children in poverty to succeed and thrive. We do this by providing comprehensive support to children and their families in targeted high-needs New York City neighborhoods. Children's Aid annually serves children and their families at over forty sites in New York, as well as through three national program models. Children's Aid is concentrating its efforts on creating cradle-through-college pathways in high-need neighborhoods, with a focus on children's health, family stability, education, and social and emotional development.

We put children, youth, and families first:
We listen to and incorporate the voices of children, youth, and families in all that we do.

We seek equity and transformation in our communities:
We courageously work within and outside systems to create opportunities for children, youth, and families.

We strive for excellence:
We hold ourselves to the highest standards and are committed to continuous learning and improvement.

We are powered by collaboration:
Our work is stronger when we trust, partner, and respect each other and the communities we serve.

We are driven by compassion:
We lead with kindness, care, and empathy and believe in the endless potential of the people we serve and our team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Strategic Oversight

• Understand and promote the organization's Mission, Vision, and Core Values to ensure alignment with organizational policies and procedures.
• Support the family in implementing strategies that align with educational goals and organizational standards.

Curriculum Implementation

• Promote high-quality teaching and learning in the home setting that leads to optimal development and children's school readiness.
• Implement individualized learning experiences for children and families utilizing evidence-based curricula and the Early Learning Outcomes Framework.
• Design and arrange group socialization space, allowing for various learning opportunities and engagement, with assistance from the Education Director.
• Observe, collect data, assess, and provide strengths-based feedback on the caregiver's parental interactions and child's developmental skills to support positive parenting practices that support their child's learning and development.
• Educate caregivers on positive parenting interactions through curriculum implementation to fidelity and parent coaching tools during home visits and socialization groups.

Home Visiting

• Plan and establish a relationship with children and parents that fosters acceptance, trust, and a space that promotes interaction for growth and development.
• Conduct three or four home visits a month for the duration of an hour and a half for each family on the caseload.
• Collaborate with families to design a developmentally sound and individualized (tailored to the specific needs and interests of their child) plan to enhance the social-emotional, cognitive, mathematics, language/literacy, and physical development of their child.
• Conduct home visits with expectant parents, utilizing a maternal health curriculum to support prenatal and postpartum health, mental health, family engagement, newborn development,…