Child Care Assistant Teacher

Early Childhood Assistant Teacher

This is a year round permanent position, join us today! Are you a compassionate, motivated educator looking to impact young students' lives in your community positively? Join our team of dedicated early childhood professionals! We seek an experienced and caring full-time early childhood assistant teacher to oversee our curriculum programming in our early preschool room. You will collaborate with our assistant teachers to prepare children for school academically and socially by using age-appropriate lesson plans, selecting effective developmental materials for the classroom, and utilizing positive behavior reinforcement.

You'll also need to provide parents with regular reports on their child's progress.

The early childhood teacher, under the supervision of the early childhood director or the assistant director, is responsible for developing and implementing a developmentally based educational program for an assigned class of school children. The curriculum must meet the emotional, physical, cognitive, and social needs of the individual child and the group.

• Uplift each other within our mfa family.
• Greets each child in a warm and friendly manner.
• Interacts with the children and encourages their involvement in activities.
• Provides a warm, safe, and caring environment that is orderly, clean, and appealing.
• The environment should allow the child to grow and explore.
• Plans, prepares, and implements daily activities (indoor/outdoor) related to the curriculum (circle time, pledge of allegiance, rotations, etc.)
• Responsible for the health, welfare, and safety of the children.
• Provides overall supervision of toileting and bathroom time.
• Oversees all mealtime/snack time activities and related record keeping and leads children in mfa meal prayer.
• Maintains daily attendance records.
• Maintains ongoing developmental records for each child, including keeping records of all developing skills (physical, social, emotional, and cognitive).
• Responsible for the children's assessments.
• Keeps a “portfolio” of each child’s progress, including photographs, artwork samples, writing, etc.
• Maintains excellent communication with parents daily through using lifecubby, notes, or verbally.
• Works with other staff members to form a supportive team atmosphere.
• Ensures confidentiality of privileged information.
• Maintains adherence to all company policies and procedures, including agency safety requirements.
• Must work the days and hours to perform all assigned responsibilities and tasks, be punctual and timely in meeting all performance requirements, including but not limited to attendance standards and work deadlines.
• Maintains clean the classroom and bathroom. Cleaning duties include sweeping, vacuuming, disinfecting toys and common areas, and stuck chairs.
• Performs additional program duties as assigned by the director according to agency needs.
• Maintain annual training requirements to fulfill dcf, necpa (national early childhood program accreditation) and mfa in-service continuing education hours.

• Attends all early childhood staff meetings (exact meeting dates and times tbd).
• Attends all supervisory meetings, team planning meetings, and curriculum meetings the early childhood director schedules.
• Participates in parent orientation night and parent/child open house before school, fall festival, and all the special activities related to the classroom, curriculum, and school.
• Maintains all required reports about the class and individual children. This includes progress reports quarterly in october, december, march & may.
• Prepares and conducts parent/teacher conference, as necessary.
• Attends workshops, conferences, & any in-service training sponsored by the early childhood center, as approved and instructed by the early childhood director.
• Submits a written lesson plan weekly to the early childhood director for approval.

• Dcf 45 hours of training (child care facility part i, part ii, early literacy, safe sleep, and transportation safety). Safe sleep first 30 days of employment, the remainder of the courses within nine months.
• Child development…