EC Infant Toddler Classroom Assistant

Job Details:

Job Location:

Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe
- Kingston, WA 98346, Position Type:
Full Time - 30 - 40 hrs/week, Education Level: High School/GED
- Required, Salary Range: $19.04 - $24.75 Hourly, Travel Percentage:
Occasional travel to trainings

The EC Infant Toddler Classroom Assistant assists the infant/toddler teaching staff in providing educational and social opportunities for enrolled children in a loving, safe and nurturing environment.

• Education Services (80%)
• School Readiness Outcomes (10%)
• Family/Community Engagement (5%)
• Data Inputting (5%)

• Report to work on a regular basis, as scheduled. Must be willing to work flexible hours and days, including evenings and weekends.
• To act as a team member with all center staff and management staff to meet the educational and developmental needs of enrolled children. Consults with appropriate staff regarding children’s special needs (dietary, equipment, etc).
• Demonstrate commitment to the PGST ECEP mission, values, and policies in performance of daily duties.
• Continue to increase professional knowledge, skills, and competencies in job related areas; incorporate and demonstrate new knowledge and skills on the job.
• Contribute to the development of communication, mutual respect and support, competence and creativity among all members of the EC Program thru active participation in the Peer-to-Peer Coaching process.
• Maintains strict confidentiality of program staff and family/child information.
• Accept responsibility for seeking assistance and guidance when needed; integrate constructive direction from supervisor to improve job performance.
• Accept responsibility for quality of job performance and make changes as needed.
• To participate in relevant training and on-going career development goals and opportunities.

• Maintain a safe, sanitary and clean classroom areas that includes indoor and outdoor environments and equipment.
• Provide a curriculum and classroom environment that builds and strengthens the security, trust, positive self-concepts and individual strengths of each child.
• Provide warm, caring, nurturing, positive, supportive responses to all children.
• Implement developmentally appropriate best practices, principles, and performance standards in a comprehensive head start classroom environment.
• Integrate S’Klallam cultural practices in all areas of the environment.
• Promote positive transitions for all children from activities and services.
• Assist in conducting observations and recording of children’s behavior.
• Participate in established health and safety procedures daily.
• Assist in the development and implementation of routines and curriculum that promote good health habits and integrate the health and nutrition components in the classroom.
• Maintain an open, friendly and cooperative relationship with each child’s family and extended family; encouraging their involvement in the program; promoting parent-child bonding and nurturing parent-child relationships; work with the parents to strengthen the family’s knowledge of early childhood development.
• To support the partnership with families that promotes them as the primary teacher of their child in the areas of literacy, numeric, social and emotional growth and physical growth.
• To assist the bus driver as a bus monitor in transporting children
• To participate in family /community activities and educational activities.

• Assist in maintaining on-going records for each child, record pertinent information in child’s file, including but limited to child observations, verbal and written communications with families and staff in regard to child.
• Conduct all communication with staff, supervisor, program participants, and community in an…