Lead Teacher

Our Staff and Leaders are dedicated to providing the highest quality, safe and nurturing educational environment where diverse children, families and adults come together to learn and grow.We cherish children, support families, build community among diversity and pursue excellence in early education."

Position Requirements:

1. Education requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development or related discipline. The applicant must hold a current Child Development Permit – Teacher Level, and a clear criminal clearance (fingerprint clearance) through the FBI and DOJ. Must hold current CPR Certification, 15 hours of health/safety training and current First Aide Certification. Teachers for Infant/Toddlers must also posses’ specialization ECE units in caring for Infant/Toddlers.

2. Required experience:

Must have minimum 2 years experience of classroom teaching with children 0-5 years.

3. Required Skills/knowledge:

Must demonstrate knowledge of child growth and development, positive child guidance techniques, and basic classroom management. The teacher must demonstrate good inter-personal relations, such as tact, patience and courtesy in dealing with children, families and co-workers.

Key Result Areas of Responsibility:

1. Curriculum development and implementation:

a. Responsible for weekly lesson plans that will reflect the center education philosophy, utilizing research based best practices.
b. Planned activities will adhere to small group philosophy, anti-bias and developmentally appropriate curriculum.
c. Creates a warm, responsive and respectful environment for children and adults.
d. Responsible for supporting and utilizing the aspects of our program: Research based curriculum & best practices, anti-bias curriculum, small group activities, primary care giving and continuity of care.

2) Creation of safe and educational environment:

a. Responsible to maintain a safe environment for children and adults at all times.
b. Integrate Conscious Discipline into all aspects of classroom curriculum and teaching practices.
c. Responsible to maintain a classroom and playground physical environment that uses the ECERS and NAEYC Accreditation guidelines as its model.
d. Responsible to maintain classroom storage areas and materials in a neat and orderly manner.
e. Responsible to maintain material usage in such a way to maximize the resources of CDC.

3) Maintain Written Developmental Records for Children:

a. Teacher is responsible for coordinating all staff efforts in collecting observational anecdotal records, documentation photos, children’s writing and art samples for the child’s portfolio, and for the written conference summary reports.
b. Teacher is responsible for the daily classroom record keeping such as food count, and attendance records.
c. Responsible for on-going authentic assessment of children using observation, Developmental Profile records and other documents such as IEP or IFSP’s. These records are to be used in designing children’s developmental goals and planning curriculum activities.

4) Staff and Student Development:

a. Provides instruction and support, modeling developmentally appropriate practices for assigned staff and volunteers (such as ULV Student Teachers, observation students, ROP Students, Field Work Students, etc)
b. Provides supervision, mentoring and feedback for staff assigned to team as well as others in section or the center.
c. Participates in the performance evaluation of Assistant and or Associate Teachers and students in his/her team.

5) Public Relations and Professional Development:

a. Participates in parent events as planned by the program and or PAC.
b. Participates in school visitations, and other public relation events planned by the center leadership team.
c. Participates in professional development events such as in-service training, professional growth conferences and workshops to keep up on current Child Development Philosophies and practices.
d. Participates as an active team member in his/her assigned classroom and section. Also participates as an active team member assuring a consistent high quality program.

Physical Requirements of the Job:

- Must be able to visually supervise children at all times.
- Must be able to move about the Center, play yards, attending to the immediate and changing needs of all children at CDC.
- Must be able to hear a child in distress and move quickly to that child.
- Must be able to lift from 5 to 30 pounds, must be able to physically pick up a child.
- Must be able to meet the physical demands of working with active children with minimum fatigue.
- Must be able to travel from CDC to other locations on the Fairgrounds, without the assistance of a vehicle.
- Must be able to answer phones and respond to phone calls.