Preschool Lead Teacher - Child Development Center

Reports To:

Child Care Coordinator

Are you passionate about supporting the growth and development of young learners in a preschool environment? Are you inspired about making an impact on young children and their families? If so, Hawkeye Community College has a great opportunity for you!

The Hawkeye Child Development Center is looking for a Preschool Lead Teacher to join their team. At the Hawkeye Child Development Center, staff work together as a team to provide high quality early childhood care and education to children while maintaining compliance with DHHS regulations, National Association for Education of Young Children (NAEYC) accreditation, Iowa Quality for Kids (IQ4K), Shared Visions Preschool and Head Start Standards.

All staff respect diversity in children, families and colleagues.

As the Preschool Lead Teacher in the Child Care center, you would be responsible for providing developmentally appropriate, high quality early childhood care and education to children. This is done by promoting social, emotional, intellectual, and physical growth and development, guiding the children to independence, self-direction, self-control as they move forward to their next level. Additionally, you would be responsible for creating and maintaining an enthusiastic, respectful, and positive work environment for children, staff, students, families, and faculty.

Hawkeye Community College is a comprehensive community college focused on meeting the needs of the community by providing quality, affordable learning experiences for a wide array of students through our Adult Learning Center, Business and Community Education Department as well as through more than 50 career and technical programs and liberal arts transfer programs. Hawkeye Community College’s mission is about empowering students, strengthening businesses and enriching communities with a vision to improve the quality of life in the communities we serve.

Important responsibilities and duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Creates and prepares age-appropriate lessons and activities in compliance with accreditation and assessments that are individualized to meet each child's needs developmentally.
• Conducts observations, assessments, and obtain documentation of each child, with an awareness of where each child is developmentally regarding social, emotional wellbeing, physical health, and cognitive development.
• Partners with the Early Childhood Education Program faculty to supervise, mentor, and evaluate Early Childhood student performance, requirements, and expectations.
• Collaborates with the Coordinator in designing a curriculum that supports center philosophy and meets children's needs to maintain a high-quality early education program.
• Analyzes and resolves any problems that may arise with parents, staff, students or children and reports them to the Coordinator.
• Prepares and distributes necessary communication letters to families including monthly and weekly newsletters and educational handouts.
• Creates and prepares daily reports for each child.
• Models best practices in the classroom and demonstrates professionalism in the Child Development Center.
• Prepares and conducts parent/teacher conferences with specialists when necessary.
• Supervises and trains work study staff and assigns daily jobs and responsibilities within the classroom and the Center.
• Works in collaboration with the Coordinator and Assistant Coordinator in meeting all required criteria and standards of the state, applicable agencies and applicable grants.
• Prepares food for scheduled meals and curricular activities and maintains record-keeping on Child and Adult Care Food Program food forms.
• Collaborates with Coordinator in overseeing the maintenance of the safety and cleanliness of the classroom.
• Participates in campus committees as assigned.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Unless otherwise approved under Hawkeye’s remote work policy, regular on campus and/or onsite attendance is considered an essential function of the position.

Anticipated schedule is Monday – Friday from 8:30 am through 5:00 pm.

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