Teacher - Ehs Exp (Nogales Area)

Job Details
Level
Experienced
Job Location
Western Head Start - Nogales, AZ
Position Type
40 hours/week - year round
Education Level
AA - Early Childhood Education
Salary Range
$18.66 - $19.75 Hourly
Travel Percentage
In Town
Job Shift
Day (M-F) Approx 7:30am - 4:30pm
Job Category
Education
Current Opening:
Western Head Start, 686 N Western Ave, Nogales, AZ 85621, 1 opening, 8 hours/day, M-F, approximately 7:30am-4:30pm, year round
Classification: Hourly, Non-Exempt
Supervisor: Lead Teacher
Supervises: None
Job Summary:
Child-Parent Centers (CPC) is seeking professionals who share our values and principles for building trusting relationships with children, families, and colleagues. Successful candidates welcome individual differences and perspectives, respect cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and are sensitive to current circumstances. Candidates display a commitment to teamwork, open communication, and are eager to work in a fast-paced, high quality early education environment. This is a great opportunity for organized and dependable early childhood professionals with strong work ethic and a desire to grow. CPC provides opportunities and financial support for teachers to grow professionally including financial support for a bachelor's degree or continuing education credits in childhood education or child development or through professional memberships in local regional or national early childhood organizations. If you have previous experience working in an early childhood center and are interested in joining our growing team, we encourage you to apply.
Reporting to the Lead Teacher, the teaching team provides comprehensive high-quality early education and child development services for eight (8) mobile one year old's and toddlers up to 36 months of age enrolled in the assigned classroom. Daily routines promote children's cognitive, social, health, and emotional growth for later success in school. The teacher receives regular on-going support from the Lead Teacher and the education specialist (coach) to implement the agency's Languages of Learning curriculum that includes creating a safe and enriching environment, embedding responsive and effective teacher-child interactions, and fostering partnerships with families by respecting values, strengths, and cultures and welcoming parent's contributions and participation. The teacher position is funded for eight hours per day Monday through Friday, and works directly with children who may be in the classroom up to 8 hours per day, five days per week.
When working outside the classroom, the teaching team works together to plan and develop activities such as planning lessons, documenting children's work and outcomes, entering and analyzing child and family data, setting goals, and attending professional development opportunities.
The teacher is responsible for leading the classroom in the absence of the Lead Teacher.
Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be 18 years of age
• Possess an Associate's degree from a recognized educational institution in the field of early childhood education or an Associate's degree in a related field (Child and Family Studies, Consumer Studies, Developmental Psychology, Elementary Education, Home Economics/Family and Consumer Sciences, Human Development, Human Ecology, Human Services, Nursing, Psychology, Public Health, Social Work, Sociology, or Special Education) and a minimum of 24 credits in early childhood education or child development coursework.
• Two (2) years documented work experience with infants and toddlers or four (4) years working with preschool aged children.
• Possess a valid Arizona driver's license and excellent driving record.
• Possess a current AZ Department of Public Safety Level One Fingerprint Clearance Card OR obtain prior to the first day of work
• Must read, write, and speak English and Spanish.

Required Competencies:

• Leadership
• Supervision
• Coaching
• Accountability and Dependability
• Valuing Diversity
• Safety Focus
• Listening
• Creative and Innovative Thinking
• Building Relationships
• Teamwork
• Technology
• Self-Management
• Adaptability and Flexibility
• Development and Continual Learning

Other Requirements (post hire):

• Must be able to travel to and from various sites as needed.
• Provide proof of immunizations: COVID 19 vaccination, MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella), Tdap (adult Tetanus, Diphtheria, Pertussis), and a clear Tuberculosis skin test or chest X-ray.
• Able to pass a company paid physical exam prior to starting work.
• Able to pass a criminal background check.
• Must be able to prove the right to work in the USA by providing appropriate documents to complete the Federal I-9 form.
• Must possess or have the ability to possess and keep current certification in First Aid Training/CPR training including Infants and Children.
• Must possess or have the ability to possess and keep current a Food Handler's Certificate issued by the Arizona Department of Health Services

Desired Qualifications:

• Possess a bachelor's or master's degree from a recognized educational institution in the field of Early Childhood Education or closely related field (listed above).
• Four (4) years' work or volunteer experience with groups or individuals from a variety or ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds or with Head Start.
• Two (2) years experience working in an infant toddler center based classroom.

Work Environment:

• Indoor classroom - temperature controlled
• Outdoor playground - exposure to hot and cold
• Possible exposure to communicable illness, blood borne pathogens
• Exposure to cleaning and sanitizing chemicals

Physical Requirements:
Frequently

• Ability to see or hear and respond quickly to unsafe situations
• Stooping, bending, reaching
• Moving quickly around objects (run, jump, jog)
• Up and down from carpet/floor and/or 12"-14"chairs
• Lift children (1-3 year old children) {19 - 30 lbs}

Occasionally

• Picking up and dropping off supplies
• Push and pull furniture {20 to 50lb}
• Lifting +/- 50 lb

Benefits:

• Paid Leave - 23 paid holidays, 5 days paid vacation 13 days each year thereafter, and 8 days paid Personal leave first year, 9 days each year thereafter, and up to 5 days paid Sick leave each year
• Insurance benefits - dental, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Reimbursement Arrangements, Health Savings Accounts, PPO medical (3 plans), Vision, and Supplemental Life coverage for self, spouse, and child ($25,000 basic life and Accidental death and disability provided by employer)
• Retirement Plan - Agency contribution after years of services and hours eligibility criteria are met. Employee 401k deferral after eligibility is met.

See full job duties and responsibilities below
Job Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
Direct Services:

• Implement the Languages of Learning curriculum a minimum of 8 hours per day five days per week. Ensure and support the completion of at least two parent conferences and two home visits during the program year.
• Set learning goals and plan learning experiences by integrating knowledge of each child's temperament, interests, gender, culture, language, learning approaches, understanding, misconceptions, and abilities and by working collaboratively with families and a range of specialists (e.g., medical, dental, speech, nutrition, mental health).
• Demonstrate respect for families' values, strengths, and cultures by welcoming their contributions and participation, encouraging children to talk about their families, and designing learning experiences accordingly.
• Use information about children obtained through home visits, parent-teacher conferences, and other parent-staff interactions by incorporating this data into daily routines and interactions with children.
• Support children's overall development by integrating sensory learning experiences related to all domains throughout the curriculum, environment, and day.
• Promote children's security and attachment by responding promptly and consistently to their needs, providing frequent and affectionate one-on-one contact, and offering predictable daily routines and interactions.
• Enable children to develop emerging skills and practice existing ones by engaging them in individual and small-group experiences designed to enhance their development and learning.
• Promote children's development of fine and gross motor skills by providing a variety of materials (e.g., puzzles, stacking toys, balls, climbing structures), equipment, and opportunities.
• Foster children's curiosity, engagement, reasoning, and problem solving by providing a balance of open-ended exploration, teacher-guided inquiry, structured activities, and sensory-based play.
• Help children acquire meaningful content knowledge by ensuring that learning experiences and routines are child-centered and are based on information that is current, accurate, and focused at the children's level of understanding.
• Help children gain independence and autonomy in eating, toileting, dressing, and hygiene by encouragingly presenting age-appropriate and manageable tasks and by recognizing their abilities.
• Build children's awareness of and ability to follow basic health and safety rules by providing opportunities for health and safety learning (e.g., implementing and discussing routines-washing hands, fire drills, crossing streets) and by supervising children at all times and positively redirecting them from potentially harmful activities.
• Support families in extending children's learning at home by providing newsletters, take-home activities, home visits, and parent-teacher conferences.
• Help children who are learning English by providing them with the supports (e.g., props, gestures, incorporating basic words in the child's home language, securing volunteers who speak the child's language) they need to fully participate in classroom experiences.
• Help children expand their emergent language and literacy skills by cuing in and responding to children's non-verbal forms of communication (e.g., gestures, sounds).
• Foster teacher-child and child-child communication intentionally by facilitating mutual sharing and authentic exchange of ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
• Advance children's listening, understanding, and communicating skills and supports development of content knowledge by commenting on children's activities and experiences and describing children's actions and events.
• Build children's vocabulary by regularly introducing new and challenging words, discussing them, and infusing them into ongoing activities.
• Cultivate children's understanding of and appreciation for books by gathering a wide range of high-quality children's literature, including board books, for children to explore on their own or with a teacher.
• Enhance children's knowledge and language and literacy development by regularly reading books with children individually, in small groups, and in various settings (e.g., block area, housekeeping area).
• Further children's listening, vocabulary, and attention span through book reading by using prompts for discussion and follow-up activities.
• Encourage children's scribbling and other emergent writing skills, their awareness of print, and the varied purposes for writing by providing and using a range of writing materials (e.g., markers, crayons, finger paint, letter magnets) and environmental print.
• Support children's interest in and awareness of numbers, counting, and problem solving by initiating counting games and activities and by providing materials that link number concepts to numerals and mathematical understanding and vocabulary.
• Promote children's understanding of size, shape, color, and directionality by engaging them is small- and large-motor activities that require them to sort, match, identify patterns, group objects, and measure objects.
• Build children's ability to compare and talk about the similarities and differences between objects by providing experiences with sorting, matching, patterns, grouping, and measurement.
• Assist children in understanding math and science concepts by embedding math and science experiences into everyday routines, music, movement, literacy, art, and play.
• Help children expand their knowledge of their bodies and the world around them by planning and implementing age-appropriate activities and explorations.
• Encourage children's use of scientific inquiry by offering experiences and opportunities to explore and investigate their immediate environment.
• Expand children's knowledge of nature, living things, and materials and processes by providing objects, tools, and experiences that enable them to closely observe and explore nature and scientific concepts (e.g., cause and effect, time, temperature, buoyancy, changes in materials).
• Facilitate children's ability to listen to, interact with, and appreciate different types of music by providing individual and group experiences with singing, finger plays, creative movement, and musical instruments.
• Develop children's imagination and creativity by providing child-directed and teacher-guided opportunities for them to express their thoughts, ideas, experiences, and feelings through various media (e.g., movement, dance, drama, music, visual arts).
• Help children learn about themselves and others by designing and implementing meaningful experiences to explore similarities and differences between people.
• Facilitate children's learning about their community by using play, language and literacy experiences (e.g., conversations, books, writing), and face-to-face interactions (e.g., field trips) that reflect children's familial and cultural backgrounds and illustrate the roles and in...