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Job Description: Assistant Teacher.
Reports to: Director.
Job Responsibilities and Essential Functions:
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:
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.
