Infant Toddler Teacher

Infant-Toddler Teacher

Under general direction, this position facilitates safe and healthy learning environments and activities for young children under three (3) years of age. Plans and implements developmentally appropriate group and individualized activities and experiences to promote social-emotional, physical, and cognitive growth and development. Provides activities and experiences to develop school readiness skills aligned with children's age and stage of development. For parents to increase their knowledge, understanding of, skills and experience in their child's growth and development.

General direction and supervision is provided by the Education Coordinator or Site Supervisor (if one is assigned to the site/center).

Classroom Health and Safety:

• Implement a plan to ensure the safety of the children within the group utilizing indoor and outdoor spaces.
• Inspects facilities, following Plaza de la Raza's Health and Safety policies and Procedures hazardous conditions and unsafe materials. Removes hazardous and unsafe materials.
• Reports needed repairs and/or timely maintenance to the appropriate personnel.
• Implements classroom activities that build developmentally appropriate healthy habits for babies/toddlers.
• Provides diaper changes and meets toileting needs of children.
• Provides constant and consistent supervision and management of children in the classroom to ensure a safe, clean, healthy, and secure environment.
• Demonstrates knowledge of safety issues in infant/toddler care (such as SIDS)
• Conducts monthly emergency drills.
• Maintains a clean and orderly classroom, kept free of garbage and debris.
• Recognizes and reports accidents, illnesses, and suspected child abuse to appropriate personnel according to Child Care Licensing and Plaza de la Raza guidelines.
• Ensures compliance with Head Start Performance Standards, federal and state regulations, and Community Care Licensing.

Effective Teaching Practices:

• Ensures effective curriculum implementation.
• Supports children's social/emotional development through responsive and nurturing teacher-child interactions.
• Plans and implements developmentally appropriate curriculum activities that support assessment of individual children in the classroom.
• Use assessment data to support individualization of curriculum activities for each child.
• Promotes children's progress across the standards described in the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework:
  Ages Birth to Five, and applicable state early learning and development standards, including children with disabilities and dual language learners.
• Plans and implements daily developmentally appropriate curriculum activities based on children's interests to support School Readiness in all learning domains.
• Develops and implements, in partnership with parent's, the child's Individual Development Plan (IDP) establishing developmentally appropriate learning goals and activities for home and school that will support achievement of identified goals and aligns with Plaza de la Raza, Performance Standards, and grantee Education GIM.
• Creates and modifies the daily classroom lesson plans in accordance with established curriculum
• Integrates the parents into the educational program by providing a program that focuses on the parent as the child's primary teacher.
• Orders classroom supplies and materials as needed for effective service delivery.
• Conducts parent/teacher conferences and home visits twice a year in accordance with Head Start Performance Standards.
• Records pertinent information about children in the group to document growth and development.
• Ensures completion of required paperwork on the children in the classroom such as attendance reports, observations of individual children in the classroom, enrollment records and reports.
• Maintains record keeping and reporting systems to ensure accurate information, with timely completion and follow-up as indicated in Plaza de la Raza's policies and procedures, Head Start Performance Standards and state and local regulations.
• Prepares and maintains mandated records including Child Assessment Records (CAR), Child Observation Records (COR), parent conferences, home visits, emergency cards and…