Infant​/Toddler Teacher - Full Year

Job Summary :

Under the supervision of the Center Education Coordinator, this position is responsible for providing comprehensive services in compliance with program guidelines, policies and procedures. The Infant/Toddler Teacher is responsible for integrating the curriculum by creating lesson plans, and developing individual learning plans to meet the needs of children, including observing, assessing, and documenting children’s progress. In addition, the Infant/Toddler teacher is responsible for maintaining active supervision of children, and providing ongoing communication with parents including home visits, parent conferences and other events.

• Provides comprehensive services for children age birth to 3 years, maintaining compliance with the program’s guidelines, policies and performance standards (including MN DHS licensing regulations, Head Start Program Performance Standards Child & Adult Care Food Program), and strictly adhere to the highest standards of confidentiality and ethics when working with children, parents and peers.
• Strictly adhere to the highest standards of confidentiality and ethics when working with children, parents and peers.
• Create and implement detailed and comprehensive lesson plans appropriate for very young children using Creative Curriculum for Infants, Toddlers and Twos (per Curricular and Intentional Planning Procedure), which include goals to achieve measurable outcomes based on observations and results of the program’s child assessment tool. Lesson plans will incorporate caregiving routines as well as learning activities. Actively engages in age-appropriate classroom activities such as child-initiated free play, floor play, caregiving routines, limited adult-initiated activities, self-help and routine care such as diaper changing, potty training, handwashing, etc.
• Uses self-talk and other language support techniques continuously throughout the day to enhance language development in children.
• Create a primary care group system and assign classroom staff to match children with a suitable primary care staff for the purposes of creating strong relationships and assisting in observations, documentation, and tracking development in Teaching Strategies GOLD.
• Observe each child on a regular basis in all developmental domains to establish individual child goals that are meaningful and measurable. Responsible for recording authentic observations and accurate documentation to track and achieve measurable child outcomes and established programmatic school readiness goals.
• Document, level and finalize each child’s development using the designated online assessment tool (per Assessment & Child Goals: Individualizing for Children Policy). Partner with parents to establish child goals and present results of the child’s progress towards meeting the goals using the program’s assessment tool to parents in a manner that is easy to understand.
• Communicate with parents regarding the child’s overall development including the child’s successes and areas of potential concern or needed improvement (per Family Teacher Conferences policy)
• Closely partner with families to build relationships and ensure smooth transitions between home and classroom. This includes daily written communication provided to families regarding the child’s day, which must include successes, challenges, classroom routines, and self-care (e.g., diapering and potty training, napping, and what they ate at each meal) (per DHS regulations and Parent/Family Engagement policy).
• Design a safe and developmentally appropriate learning environment ensuring active supervision is maintained at all times (per Teaching and Learning Environment Policy).
• Ensures appropriate health and safety practices are implemented. Inspects the classroom, indoor and outdoor space daily ensuring that materials are safe. Remove or repair all unsafe equipment (per Daily Potential Hazard Checklist) and report all major issues to management. Conduct daily informal health checks of each child. Actively participates in emergency drills(per Emergency Safety Lockdown policy).
• Continuously cleans and sanitizes classrooms and toys.…