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Hiring Preschool Teacher, Teacher Assistant, Teacher's Aide
Job Description: Teacher Assistant
Reports to: Director.
Job Responsibilities and Essential Functions:
Job Description: Teacher Assistant
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.
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Job Description: Classroom Teacher
Reports to: Director
Job Responsibilities and Essential Functions
These are the basic expectations of a classroom teacher. Creative and new ways to meet or exceed expectations are encouraged, as long as the required essential functions are also met. Also have a strong understanding of Emilio Reggio and Maria Montessori learning philosophies.
Keep Children Safe:
Supervision
- Supervise children closely by keeping all children in sight.
- Ensure the classroom environment, materials, and equipment are safe, clean, clutter-free.
- Determine appropriate use of materials and age appropriateness.
- Proper judgment of toys and activities (i.e. look for choking hazardous materials and age appropriate games).
Health and Safety
- Keep the school environment clean and tidy. Be aware of your surroundings and take responsibility to report or fix unsafe conditions if you find them.
- Fully understand the school’s protocol for injuries and incidents including how to address and report incident reports in a professional way.
- Fully understand school’s food policy including checking children’s home brought lunch on a regular basis to ensure parents are following the school lunch policy.
- Be aware of all children’s food allergies and other allergies.
- Keep training such as First Aid & CPR training, Mandated Reporter, Basic Pest up to date.
Positive Child Guidance
- Use only positive child guidance techniques to instruct children.
- Identify children’s needs and assess the best method of guidance for that child.
Create an Unrivaled Education Experience:
Teaching
- Create and implement Reggio Emilia inspired curriculum based on the observations and interest of the children, through meaningful projects and documentations.
- Create meaningful activities that are age appropriate, have clear learning goals in mind, and interest based. Lessons, activities, and teaching should reflect the school’s learning philosophy.
- Plan and conduct daily circle time.
- Set up and maintain a classroom environment conducive to learning.
- Plan and organize curriculum and activities in order to meet the physical, social, intellectual, and emotional needs of each child and to provide the children with a stimulating, joyous, and engaging learning experience.
- Support children to build critical and creative thinking skills through inquiry, observation, and experimentation as well as support children’s social and emotional growth.
Assessments
- Share and document classroom observations on BrightWheel App and with the director and other teachers during regular check-ins and meetings.
- Communicate in a positive, supportive and professional manner with parents in both written and verbal forms through Brightwheel or in person check-ins.
- Create & implement changes if needed to current SOMA assessment reports as needed.
- Conduct children’s assessment (DRDP) reports and SOMA assessment reports twice a year.
- Conduct virtual parent teacher conferences twice a year to share and discuss children’s progress reports and answer questions and concerns that might have during the meeting in a professional way.
Management
- Supervise teacher assistants and aides in the development of operating procedures and systems for effective management.
- Set up professional goals and expectations for teacher assistants and aides to work on.
- Provide training, guidelines, supervision, and supports for classroom teacher assistants and aides.
- Conduct 1:1 or group meetings regularly for planning and implementing monthly curricula.
- Conduct staff evaluation twice a year for teacher assistants and aides and submit to the center director.
Be Responsive to Flexibility:
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. 1hr unpaid lunch break is taken during children’s scheduled nap times - 12:30-3:30pm.
- You are responsible for scheduling classroom teachers and teacher assistants’ breaks and taking your own breaks. Breaks need to communicate to co-teachers to ensure classroom safety, supervision, and management.
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.
- As classroom teachers, we are leaders of our teacher assistants. We are also inventors, artists, crafters, caretakers, and much more. Be proactive in implementing new initiatives to help children engage and learn.
Communication & Relationships
- Teachers communicate with each other through emails, text messages, and in-person conversations. Please be responsive to work related text messages and emails to maintain great communications.
- School uses an app called “Brightwheel” as a tool to communicate with families. Classroom teachers are in charge of communicating with parents to share updates of the children, daily documentation uploads, etc.
- Plan and prepare for special events and holiday parties with parents' participation. Work closely with supervisor and colleague in planning and hosting. Responsibilities include but are not limited to conducting family friendly activities and party games, creating party schedules and assigning teachers responsibility, sending out newsletter in advance for RSVP, submitting party supply list to director in advance, etc.
Program Improvement
- Implement changes based on observations and experience to classrooms, schedule, etc.
- Set high but realistic goals for teachers and children.
- Create and maintain a program improvement plan with all teachers and the director. Provide support to colleagues in achieving goals.
- Willing to take on new challenges and responsibility if needed for program improvement and growth in the future.
Cleaning and Other Duties:
- Take on other center duties as needed to care for children, support your co-workers, and contribute to the schools’ success.
- Light cleaning is required after meal 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 and submit incident reports on Brightwheel.
Required:
- High School Diploma or equivalent; Prefer BA or AA degree in Early Childhood Education.
- At least 12 ECE units with at least 2 years of experience working with children in a licensed child care center or comparable group child care program.
- LiveScan fingerprinting is required, or willing to obtain (reimbursement after 1st month of employment).
- CPR and 1st Aid Certifications, Mandated Reporter, Basic Pest, or willing to obtain.
- Basic technology skills (e.g. email, powerpoint, excel, ZOOM).
- Speak, read, and write English fluently.
- Is reliable and responsible.
Work Environment/Physical Demands:
- Classroom Teachers must be able to adapt and excel in a continuously changing, fast-paced environment, and make the children’s needs their primary focus.
- Classroom 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 up to 40 pounds is strongly desired and may be required to push quad strollers for daily outings.
- Work is primarily performed at the school. Daily outdoor work is required and performed at South Park, San Francisco, located on 64 South Park Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94107. Work is otherwise indoors.
- Classroom Teachers must be able to see and hear well enough to monitor classrooms and playgrounds to keep children safe at all times.
- Classroom Teachers play a leadership role in the classroom to teachers and teacher assistants.
