Assistant Childcare Teacher

Company	YELLOWSTONE CLUBSee more
Address	Big Sky, MT
Form of work	Full-Time
Category	Education/Training

Job description

Employee Childcare facility located in Gallatin Gateway Village is looking to open in early fall 2023.
Yellowstone Club's Employee Childcare department is currently seeking candidates for an Assistant Childcare Teacher. This is a full-time year-round position located in Bozeman, Montana.
Hourly compensation is 19-21 an hour dependent upon experience.
Responsibilities

Model and teach developmentally appropriate behavior and interactions between children and adults.
Provide daily care to meet the needs of every child enrolled.
Manage day-to-day classroom schedules, routines, and activities.
Track each child's progress and support lead teachers in communication with families.
Help children to reach developmental milestones through active play.
Maintain a clean, organized, and tidy space
Communicate with families' daily updates as necessary

The right candidate will:

Understand Montana's early childhood requirements and is current with MTECP registry.
Have early childhood education training, experience and understands developmentally appropriate practice.
Familiarity with Waldorf style of early childhood education.
Demonstrate strong leadership and organizational skills.
Have flexibility, a strong work-ethic, and a commitment to building this new program.
Have a passion for getting children outside, modeling care and concern for natural environments, believing that nature is a powerful, meaningful teacher that is necessary for children's overall development.
Be a co-learner with children, believing that the best curriculum emerges out of children's experiences and ideas.
Comfort in using daily responsive planning to follow these child-initiated learning opportunities.
Believe that children are capable, competent individuals with ideas worthy of being heard, and using their voices in planning and decision-making.
Demonstrate an understanding of asking open-ended questions, eliciting, and extending children's ideas, addressing children's physical and emotional needs, helping children resolve conflicts, and providing direct and meaningful feedback to children.
Be comfortable emphasizing play and discovery over didactic instruction, being an active participant in that play and discovery and having an attitude of yes.
Differentiate instruction based on the academic and social-emotional needs of each student.
Use non-violent communication with students, staff, and parents, grounded in kindness and celebration of students.
Actively listen, get curious, and ask questions when communicating with others.
Partner with students, parents, and fellow teachers to create developmental goals for students and measure their progress through clear, narrative assessment.
Be an empathetic leader who values the lived experience of all community members, including students, parents, and staff.
Be a social justice and equity champion who actively seeks to create equitable and inclusive learning spaces.