Lead Teacher

About This Role

Guide children in activities designed to promote social, physical, and intellectual growth needed for a child development center and further learning.

• Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.
• Attend to children's basic needs by feeding them, dressing them, and changing their diapers.
• Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.
• Guide behavior in developmentally appropriate ways.
• Read books to entire classes and individual children.
• Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development, such as games, art, music, and stories.
• Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
• Identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems and discuss them with supervisors, parents, or guardians.
• Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and needs, determine their priorities, and suggest ways to promote learning and development.
• Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
• Teach proper eating habits and personal hygiene.
• Serve meals and snacks in accordance with nutritional guidelines.
• Assimilate arriving children to the school environment by greeting them, helping them remove outerwear, and selecting activities of interest.
• Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet children’s varying needs and interests.
• Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to children.
• Demonstrate activities to children.
• Arrange indoor and outdoor space to facilitate creative play, motor‑skill activities, and safety.
• Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by state licensing procedures and national accreditation commissions.
• Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration.
• Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
• Organize and label materials and display students’ work in a manner appropriate for their age and perceptual skills.
• Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.
• Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
• Attend staff meetings as required.

• Set up classroom materials or equipment.
• Provide for basic needs of children.
• Teach life skills.
• Guide student behavior.
• Read to students.
• Plan educational activities.
• Assess student behavior, social development, or health.
• Discuss problems or issues with supervisors.
• Discuss student progress with parents or guardians.
• Enforce rules or policies governing student behavior.
• Introduction to Childcare Certificate.
• Skills and Strategies of a Child Care Teacher.
• Modify teaching methods or materials to accommodate student needs.
• Develop instructional objectives.
• Apply multiple teaching methods.
• Arrange childcare or educational settings to ensure the physical safety of children.
• Maintain student records.
• Prepare reports detailing student activities or performance.
• Display student work.
• Attend training sessions or professional meetings to develop or maintain professional knowledge.

• Children's educational software
• Compact digital cameras
• Compact disk CD players
• Laptop computers
• Educational board games
• Educational puzzles
• Educational toys
• Email software
• Emergency first aid kits