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Job Description: Assistant Teacher.
Reports to: Director.
Job Responsibilities and Essential Functions:
These are the basic expectations for Assistant Teachers. Creative and new ways to meet or exceed expectations are encouraged, so long as the required essential functions are also met.
Keep Children Safe
Supervision:
Reports to: Director.
Job Responsibilities and Essential Functions:
These are the basic expectations for Assistant Teachers. Creative and new ways to meet or exceed expectations are encouraged, so long as the required essential functions are also met.
Keep Children Safe
Supervision:
- Supervise children closely by keeping all children in sight.
- Proper judgment of toys and activities ie look for choking hazardous materials and age-appropriate games.
Health and Safety:
- Keep the daycare clean and tidy. Be aware of your surroundings and take responsibility to report or fix unsafe conditions if you find them.
Positive Child Guidance:
- Use only positive child guidance techniques to instruct children.
- Create an Unrivaled Education Experience.
Teaching:
- Help implement SOMA Daycare & Preschool’s curriculum in a way that is consistent to meet each child’s unique needs.
- Activities should be age-appropriate and have a clear learning goal in mind.
Assessments:
- Share classroom observations with Lead Teachers to help complete assessments.
- Be Responsive to Changing Needs.
Work hours:
- Work hours may vary to meet the needs of the children in our care.
- Your hands should be washed and ready to work at the start of your shift. Lunch break is taken during children’s scheduled nap times.
Initiative:
- After learning the job, you should be able to keep up on all your responsibilities without direct guidance.
- Anticipate classroom needs and follow through without prompting.
- Learn the schedule to help you anticipate classroom needs.
Cleaning and Other Duties:
- Take on other center duties as needed to care for children, support your co-workers, and contribute to the school’s success.
- Light cleaning is required after meals and snack times.
- Assist with weekly toy sanitation.
- Diaper changes and potty assistance.
- Maintain a clean, sanitized restroom at all times.
- Report any injuries, rashes, or illness to the Director immediately.
Required:
- High School Diploma or equivalent.
- LiveScan fingerprinting is required, or willing to obtain (reimbursement after 1st month of employment).
- Speak, read, and write English fluently.
- CPR and 1st Aid Certifications, or willing to obtain.
- Basic technology skills (e.g. email).
Minimum of 6 ECE units and wants to keep working towards full qualification. A candidate with 3 ECE units may be acceptable if the candidate is enrolled/taking at least 3 ECE units.
Work Environment/Physical Demands:
- Assistant Teachers must be able to adapt and excel in a continuously changing, fast-paced environment, and make the children’s needs their primary focus.
- Assistant Teachers must be able to fully engage in physical activity. They must be able to kneel, stoop, sit on the floor, stand for a long time, and demonstrate and engage in activities like jumping, dancing, walking, and running.
- The ability to lift to 40 pounds is strongly desired.
- Work is primarily performed at the school. Daily outdoor work is required but work is otherwise indoors. Work is sometimes performed off-site for parking outings.
- Assistant Teachers must be able to see and hear well enough to monitor classrooms and playgrounds to keep children safe at all times.
- Assistant Teachers play a support role in the classroom.
