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Success Starts Here! Educating Children, Empowering Families, Strengthening Communities.
Denise Louie Education Center has been providing comprehensive, multi-cultural early education and family support services to low-income, at-risk immigrant, and refugee communities residing in King County for over 40 years. Today, Denise Louie serves nearly 950 children and families with preschool, home visiting, and socialization groups--all of which are offered at no cost.
We are currently seeking highly motivated Substitute Teachers to join our cause. Substitute Teachers support Lead Teachers and Teaching Assistants in order to provide a high quality, multicultural, inclusive educational experience to prepare all children and families for life and school. This position will rotate through different classrooms based on staffing needs and may work in the Infant, Toddler or Preschool classrooms.
Essential Functions:
- Assist the teaching team in maintaining a healthy, safe, and warm classroom environment through effective supervision, developmentally appropriate practices that allows learning through curiosity, experimentation, play and implementation of individualized plans.
- Assist the teaching team in delivering weekly lesson plans by preparing materials, organizing supplies, and helping keep children on task.
- Assist teaching team in completion of Teaching Strategies Gold observations and checkpoint data to assess child growth and development.
- Engage in warm, caring interactions and fun, imaginative play with children.
- Provide support for children's behavior with evidence-based strategies.
- Adhere to all city, state, federal, OSPI and Head Start/Step Ahead requirements relating to program operation.
- Assist with facilitation of special events and meetings.
- Assist in maintaining children’s file documents in a secure, organized system for easy reference by other staff.
- Promptly communicate any problems or concerns regarding children to the Teaching Assistant or Lead Teacher.
Qualifications:
- High School diploma or equivalent. Early childhood education coursework preferred.
- Previous work or volunteer experience working with children ages 5 and under.
- Able to communicate in English verbally and in writing.
- Bilingual in a language spoken by DLEC parents (Spanish, Amharic, Cantonese, and Vietnamese) preferred
Position Range: $19.97 - $21.05 hourly
Benefits:
As a Denise Louie Education Center team member, you may receive some or all of the following employee benefits. Medical, Dental, Vision, Long-Term Disability, and options for supplemental Insurance coverage.Team members are eligible to participate in the company 401(k) plan, which offers a non-elective employer contribution after an introductory period. In addition, eligible part-time and full-time team members will receive PTO, eleven paid holidays, and one personal holiday.
Additional compensation may come in the form of tuition reimbursement, hiring, retention, longevity, referral, or special assignment bonuses, subject to budgetary limitations. For more information on our current benefit offerings, please visit our career page.
Locations:
- Beacon Hill - 3327 Beacon Avenue S, Seattle WA 98144
- Yesler Terrace - 1225 E Fir St Seattle, WA 98122
- North Seattle - 7101 62nd Ave NE, Seattle WA 98115
Physical Demands and Working Conditions:
Physical Demands: To perform the job the employee must be able to lift and potentially carry a child weighing up to 50 pounds, routinely kneel, bend, crouch and sit on the floor for extended periods of time and stand, walk and sit on child sized chairs throughout the day.
Working Conditions: The work is typically performed in an early childhood school environment, with moderate to loud noise levels.
