Teacher - Infant Toddler

Overview Compensation We Offer

• The initial compensation for this position ranges from $23.57 - $26.52 per hour; depending on experience, location, and internal equity considerations.
• We Offer Medical, Dental & Vision benefits, retirement options, Flex Spending, EAP, and more!
• Employee engagement and advocacy opportunities to advance our justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion agenda across our Agency and throughout the communities we serve. Benefits eligibility starts on Day 1!

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$23.57 - $26.52

This position serves a teacher and caregiver in a classroom of Early Head Start infants and toddlers by planning, implementing, and supervising all center-based activities. This position may work with infants and toddlers with developmental delays.

• Develops an individual plan for each child to include goal setting based on identified needs and prescriptions for objectives and activities to meet established goals (outcomes).
• Works as a team member with the other education staff, parents, and Parent Committee members to develop curriculum that is meaningful and meets the individual and program needs.
• Responsible for the weekly preparation of daily lesson plans, which includes objectives to be posted for parents, volunteers, and visitors in the classroom.
• Schedules home visits and parent-teacher conferences with families as required and on an as-needed basis and documents these events.
• Prepares and maintains a safe, healthy learning environment for children that is positive, developmentally appropriate, and experientially based.
• Plans and provides developmentally appropriate activities and experiences that advance all areas of children’s development (social, emotional, cognitive, and physical) in a manner appropriate to age and stage of development.
• Assists in development and implementation of a developmentally appropriate curriculum that focuses on routines and individual child interests and development.
• Provides a safe, healthy, and well-managed environment so that children will have comfortable learning and growing experiences.
• Sets up the physical environment to meet the changing needs of infants and toddlers.
• Serves on IFSP meetings.
• Participates in on-going training and development specific to working with infants and toddlers and their families, including infant/toddler development, communication and safety issues such as reducing the risk of sudden infant death syndrome.
• Conducts developmental screening of infants and toddlers’ motor, language, social, cognitive, perceptual, and emotional levels.
• Ensure an appropriate written Transition Plan for all children, six months before their third birthday; provide parents with training and information. Establish communication to facilitate and coordinate the transition.
• Involves parents in the educational activities of the program:
• to emphasize their role as the principal influence on the child’s education and development; and
• to assist parents to increase their knowledge, understanding, skills and experience in basic child development.
• Identifies and arranges for parents to participate as volunteers in the classroom and work as substitutes as well as other volunteer activities.
• Provides daily supervision of all classroom staff, monitors employee performance and classroom activities.
• Reports to work on time and maintains reliable and regular attendance.
• Models Pacific clinics’ approach, mission and core values in all communication and correspondence.
• Communicates effectively in a culturally competent and diverse consumer population and promotes favorable interaction with managers, co-workers and others.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

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