Lead Preschool Teacher

Find your "why" with Clackamas ESD

Clackamas ESD strives to infuse equity in all our programs and bodies of work by maintaining an inclusive, barrier-free environment in which everyone participates and fully benefits.

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they believe they meet every one of the qualifications as described in the job description. We are most interested in finding the best candidate for the job, and that candidate may be the one who comes from a less traditional background. We would encourage you to apply, even if you don't believe you meet every one of our qualifications described.

If you are unsure whether you meet the qualifications of this position, or how this would be determined, please feel free to contact Human Resources at hr to discuss your application.

Head Start is built upon the understanding that child and family development takes place in a community and effective programs build upon and link families with community resources. For this reason, Head Start to Success is designed to link with schools, social service agencies, health services and childcare services. In this way, Head Start to Success achieves the Head Start mission of supporting families in preparing their children for kindergarten success.

Enrolled children receive a quality preschool experience in their own community and the family is supported through home visits and offered comprehensive education, nutrition, health and social services. The program's funding comes from the state of Oregon and follows all of the Federal Head Start guidelines and standards.

The Preschool Lead Teacher provides a successful, safe, and supervised learning environment for children in the school district preschool setting. The Lead Teacher promotes the social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development of enrolled children through age-appropriate instruction, progress monitoring/assessment of each child, development of individualized goals, and curriculum development. Family involvement is encouraged in all aspects of the program. The Lead Teacher works to ensure that program requirements are consistently met.

The Lead Teacher ensures that services are coordinated and address each child's individual learning strengths and needs.

• Utilizes integrated curriculum plans, which reflect developmentally appropriate practice, parental and cultural influences, and promote the social, emotional, physical and cognitive development of enrolled children
• Follows a consistent schedule, which includes small and large group experiences, choice time, music and movement, large and small motor activities, skill development, snacks, and effective transitions between activities
• Encourages experimentation, exploration, problem solving, cooperation, socialization, and choice-making; asks open-ended questions and listens respectfully to the answers
• Prepares classroom materials to support developmentally appropriate lesson plans; creates and changes learning centers as needed
• Promotes family involvement by providing an atmosphere that promotes and reinforces parental participation in the classroom and parent meetings
• Communicates regularly with parents, regarding each child's progress
• Conducts parent conferences and parent meetings for the purpose of assessment and support, and to share information on classroom progress and educational strategies at school and at home
• Plans and provides a safe learning environment in which children are supervised and monitored at all times
• Adapts curriculum to address and meet individual goals for children as identified in their individual learning plans with the support of program staff
• Assesses…