Pre-School Teacher

Monday-Friday 9:00-5:30pm

Teacher-Young Preschool Room from 9am-5:30pm

Full time

• Ability to communicate verbally and non-verbally with children, families and associates.
• Emotional maturity when working with children
• Listening skills, availability and responsiveness to children, families, and associates.
• Ability to provide an environment in which children and coworkers feel comfortable, relaxed, welcomed, and involved.
• Ability to stand, stoop, bend, and carry children, sit without back support for 15~20 minutes at a time
• Requires unusual hours and flexible work schedules.
• Ability to physically respond quickly to unsafe conditions which may put children at risk.
• Ability to demonstrate understanding of developmentally appropriate practice

• Maintain a safe, clean and welcoming classroom environment based on the educational program goals/guidelines.
• Educational Program Development and Implementation: Responsibility for planning and implementing curriculum activities and primary caregiving based on the educational program goals/guidelines utilizing observations and recording of children's behavior.
• Demonstrates positive interactions with children, families, and associates through verbal and non~verbal communication within the expectations and guidelines of the Day Center, Advocate's Behaviors of Excellence as well as Advocate's Be Safe Behaviors and Tools.
• Responsibility to monitor the safety of assigned group of children at all times.
• Parent/Family Relations: Responsibility for maintaining relationships with parents through daily contacts and open communication, parent~teacher conferences, and orientation to classroom and Day Center.
• Team Collaboration/Communication ~ Demonstration of cooperative relationships and open communication with teaching teams, administration and co~workers.

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