"Child Care Center Teacher"

Job Description Summary

At the Santa Fe College Little School, toddlers and preschool children thrive in a nurturing and engaging learning environment, which also serves as a supervised training ground for aspiring childhood educators. As the Child Care Center Teacher, you play a pivotal role in fostering the positive growth and development of these young learners.

The hourly rate for this position is $15.29.

Job Description

Responsibilities and Duties include:

• Plans and implements weekly lesson plans with colleagues centered on age appropriate developmental and educational goals.
  • Uses teaching strategies that build on and extend what children already know.
• Helps children acquire the necessary skills for transitioning to preschool, such as potty training, self-help skills, and language skills.
  • Facilitates child-child interactions with the goal of teaching and modeling problem solving skills.
  • Demonstrates appropriate and safe teacher-child interaction.
• Teaches and practices the violence prevention curriculum, including empathy building, impulse control, and emotion management.
• Helps children gain self-control, self-confidence, and positive self-esteem by using relationship building techniques.
• Builds developmental skills with children across social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and language domains.
  • Records observational and developmental data for each child in each domain of development.
• Communicates well with parents daily and in formally arranged conferences.
  • Informs Director of any concerns regarding children or parents.
• Participates in weekly staff professional development meetings as scheduled.
• Keeps the bulletin boards appealing and appropriate.
• Maintains classroom materials in an organized, clean and accessible manner.
• Provides service excellence through courteous, informed, accessible, and professional engagement.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Reports to: Director, Little School

QUALIFICATIONS

Required:

A high school diploma with previous experience working with young children. Must obtain a CDA or FCCPC within the first year of employment or be working toward an A.S. in Early Childhood.

Preferred:

A.S. in Early Childhood with at least six (6) months of experience working with young children.

Additional Requirements:

A criminal background check will be conducted.

General Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to work successfully in a multi-cultural environment.
• Adaptability to Change – able to be flexible and supportive, able to positively and proactively assimilate change in rapid growth environment.
• Communication – able to effectively communicate in a professional, diplomatic, empathetic, and tactful manner using preferred method and level as applicable to the job.
• Ethics – able to demonstrate integrity, professionalism, civility, and a high degree of ethics in all job-related actions.
• Organization & Time Management – able to plan, schedule, and organize tasks related to the job to achieve goals within or ahead of established time frames.
• Problem Solving – proven skills in identifying issues, determining their cause, developing creative solutions, and following through with implementing resolutions.
• Detail Oriented - Proven accuracy and attention to detail.