Waddler​/Toddler CO-Lead

Infant–Waddler/Toddler Teacher Come Grow With Us at Agape Childcare & Pre-K Center

Are you an early childhood educator who believes that the first years of a child's life truly matter?

Do you love watching a baby discover something for the first time, helping a toddler find the words for a big feeling, getting messy with art and sensory play, exploring outside, singing songs, reading stories, and turning children's curiosity into meaningful learning?

If so, you may be exactly who we are looking for.

At Agape Childcare & Pre-K Center
, we are looking for a caring, dependable, creative teacher to join our Waddler/Toddler team.

We are looking for an educator who wants to make a difference.

Agape Childcare & Pre-K Center is a small early learning community serving children from infancy through Pre-K.

We believe children thrive when they feel safe, loved, respected, connected, and free to explore their world
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We also believe great early learning programs begin with great teachers.

Our teachers bring their own ideas, creativity, experiences, talents, and personalities into their classrooms. We want educators who are excited to learn alongside children, collaborate with their teaching team, build meaningful relationships with families, and continue growing professionally.

Agape participates in Early Achievers
, and we are committed to providing a high-quality early learning experience for our children and families while supporting the professional growth of our teachers.

Our classrooms aren't about worksheets or expecting every child to learn in exactly the same way.

Children learn by doing.

They learn through relationships, movement, music, messy art, sensory experiences, nature, conversations, building, experimenting, pretending, problem-solving, repetition, and PLAY.

Our philosophy brings together:

• Relationship-Based Care
• Social-Emotional Learning & Co-Regulation
• Learning Through Play
• Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences
• STEAM
• Project-Based Learning
• Emergent Curriculum
• Reggio Emilia-Inspired Practices
• Outdoor and Nature-Based Experiences
• Hands-On, Active Learning

We believe there are many ways to be explore and many ways to learn
.

Our job as educators is to discover what interests each child, provide meaningful experiences, and help that child develop socially, emotionally, physically, cognitively, and through language and communication.

As an Infant–Waddler/Toddler Teacher, you will have the opportunity to create a classroom where our youngest children can feel secure, develop strong attachments, explore, play, and grow.

Your days may include:

• Building loving, responsive relationships with babies and toddlers.
• Talking, singing, reading, laughing, and playing throughout the day.
• Planning fun, developmentally appropriate experiences based on children's interests.
• Creating sensory, art, music, movement, STEAM, and outdoor experiences.
• Getting on the floor and experiencing the world alongside children.
• Helping children develop language and communication.
• Supporting crawling, walking, climbing, grasping, feeding, dressing, and other emerging skills.
• Helping children recognize and express their emotions.
• Using co-regulation and positive guidance rather than punishment.
• Encouraging independence and self-help skills.
• Observing children's development and using those observations to plan what comes next.
• Creating an environment where children are encouraged to wonder, explore, experiment, and try again.
• Celebrating the little moments that are actually very big moments in early childhood.

You will also communicate with families, document children's development, maintain a safe and engaging classroom, collaborate with your teaching team, and follow Washington State health, safety, supervision, and licensing requirements.

At Agape, families aren't separate from what happens in the classroom.

We believe parents and caregivers are children's first and most important teachers.

Our teachers build relationships with families, share children's accomplishments and developmental milestones, listen to family perspectives, and work together to support each child.

We want…