Pre-School - Head Teacher

Position:
Pre-School - Head Teacher at Catholic Charities - Archdiocese of Hartford.

The teacher is responsible for implementing curricular goals and benchmarks in the classroom, ensuring the safety and development of each child, and supporting school readiness. The teacher is supervised by the director or assistant director.

$20.00/hr - $22.00/hr

The teacher puts curricular goals into practice and ensures the safety, development and readiness of each child while supporting the classroom team under supervision of the director or assistant director.

• Provide supervision, technical assistance, guidance and support to children and assistant teachers.
• Coordinate and engage in planning and implementation of experiences for young children using the CT Early Learning and Development Standards and other applicable standards or funding frameworks.
• Complete weekly observations and assessments on children’s progress and development.
• Partner with families to support relationships between children and families and share information about each child’s approach to learning, progress, and health and well-being.
• Maintain regular communication with parents including letters and reports as needed.
• Prepare children’s daily reports to parents and referral forms/plans for children with special needs as needed.
• Prepare weekly learning experience plans.
• Complete weekly observations on classroom environment, implementation checklists, and adjustments to learning experience plans.
• Coordinate the assistant teacher’s tasks and model best practices.
• Keep records of children’s observations, performance and development.
• Ensure compliance with NAEYC, state, local, and agency policies, regulations and procedures.
• Ensure records and documentation are up to date and secure to protect client privacy.
• Coordinate with instructional leader, supervisor and teaching team to schedule meetings with parents regarding children’s progress and individual development plans.
• Work with a team of professionals to coordinate information about children’s progress and adjust teaching practices to meet needs of all children.
• Participate in training, planning and evaluation activities and meetings with staff and parents as needed.
• Provide assistance to the director to cover other classrooms’ children and activities when needed.
• Engage in ongoing professional learning opportunities to remain current with early childhood research and best practices.
• Ensure health, safety, cleanliness and well-being of students through consistent schedule and appropriate supervision at all times.
• Ensure classroom ratios at all times.
• Provide oversight and assistance to the teaching team with support from the instructional leader.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Ensure the consistent accurate collection of the data.
• Identify patterns and trends of administrative services.
• Use results of data to inform supervisor of trends that may impact services.

• Hold a current CDA credential plus 12 ECE credits and be enrolled in a higher education program with supervised experience working with preschool-aged children and progressing toward an Associate Degree, which will be required for continued employment by 2025. OR
• Hold an AA in Early Childhood Education or Child Development and be enrolled in a higher education program with supervised experience and at least one semester of student teaching with pre-school aged children and progressing toward a Bachelor s Degree, which will be required for continued employment by 2029.
• Must possess the personal qualities necessary to care for and work with children, relate to other adults, including staff and parents.
• Proficiency in oral and written communication; ability to manage multiple tasks and meet timelines; excellent planning skills; and ability to motivate and manage personnel.
• Skill and experience in working with individuals at all levels to create a team environment; monitoring and supervising job performance of direct reports; scheduling and managing employee schedules to meet program requirements.
• Child CPR/First Aid certification.
• Pre-employment health certification, including a…