"Child Care Center Teacher"

The application deadline for this position is 11:59pm EST on August 27, 2025.

At the Santa Fe College Little School, toddlers and preschool children thrive in a safe, 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 growth and development of these young learners.

As a full-time employee, the Child Care Center Teacher enjoys comprehensive benefits, including employee and dependent tuition waivers for SF and UF, fully funded health insurance, dental and vision coverage options, retirement investment, paid vacation and sick leave, and a minimum of 20 paid holidays, along with various discounts in Gainesville, including free access to the SF Teaching Zoo and Planetarium.

The salary for this position is $32,436 annually at the hourly rate of $15.59.

Responsibilities and Duties Include:

• Assists the Senior Child Care Center Teacher in planning and implementing weekly lesson plans centered on age appropriate developmental and educational goals.
• Utilizes 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-to-child interactions with the goal of teaching and modeling problem solving skills and demonstrates appropriate and safe teacher-to-child interaction.
• Models and teaches empathy building, impulse control, and emotion management for children.
• 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.
• Informs the Senior Child Care Center Teacher of any concerns regarding children or parents and, in conjunction with the Senior, communicates with parents in both informal and formal meetings to discuss concerns when necessary.
• Participates in regularly scheduled staff professional development meetings.
• Keeps the bulletin boards appealing and appropriate for young children.
• 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.