Job Description
Summary Instruct preschool-aged children in activities designed to promote social, physical, and intellectual growth needed for primary school in preschool, day care center, or other child development facility. We're looking for a dependable team member who love to teach and has an impressive work history in the field. We are offering 1 free child care spot for the outstanding candidate chosen. Details will be given at interview.
Duties - Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.
- Attend to children's basic needs by feeding them, dressing them, and changing their diapers.
- Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.
- Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order.
- Read books to entire classes or to small groups.
- Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, and field trips.
- Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
- Identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists.
- Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and needs, determine their priorities for their children, and suggest ways that they can promote learning and development.
- Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students.
- Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
- Teach proper eating habits and personal hygiene.
- Serve meals and snacks in accordance with nutritional guidelines.
- Assimilate arriving children to the school environment by greeting them, helping them remove outerwear, and selecting activities of interest to them.
- Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
- Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to children.
- Demonstrate activities to children.
- Arrange indoor and outdoor space to facilitate creative play, motor-skill activities, and safety.
- Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
- Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration.
- Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
- Organize and label materials and display students' work in a manner appropriate for their ages and perceptual skills.
- Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.
- Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
- Supervise, evaluate, and plan assignments for teacher assistants and volunteers.
- Collaborate with other teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of preschool programs.
- Attend staff meetings and serve on committees as required.
- Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.
- Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guests, or other experiential activities and guide students in learning from those activities.
- Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.
- Provide disabled students with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.
- Perform administrative duties, such as hall and cafeteria monitoring and bus loading and unloading.
- Administer tests to help determine children's developmental levels, needs, and potential.
- Prepare and implement remedial programs for students requiring extra help.
Requirements - Set up classroom materials or equipment.
- Provide for basic needs of children.
- Teach life skills.
- Establish rules or policies governing student behavior.
- Read to students.
- Plan educational activities.
- Monitor student performance.
- Monitor student behavior, social development, or health.
- Evaluate student work.
- Monitor student behavior, social development, or health.
- Discuss problems or issues with supervisors.
- Discuss student progress with parents or guardians.
- Discuss student progress with parents or guardians.
- Enforce rules or policies governing student behavior.
- Set up classroom materials or equipment.
- Teach life skills.
- Provide for basic needs of children.
- Provide for basic needs of children.
- Modify teaching methods or materials to accommodate student needs.
- Develop instructional objectives.
- Apply multiple teaching methods.
- Set up classroom materials or equipment.
- Arrange childcare or educational settings to ensure physical safety of children.
- Maintain student records.
- Prepare reports detailing student activities or performance.
- Plan educational activities.
- Display student work.
- Attend training sessions or professional meetings to develop or maintain professional knowledge.
- Collaborate with other teaching professionals to develop educational programs.
- Evaluate performance of educational staff.
- Supervise student research or internship work.
- Collaborate with other teaching professionals to develop educational programs.
- Serve on institutional or departmental committees.
- Discuss problems or issues with supervisors.
- Plan experiential learning activities.
- Maintain inventories of materials, equipment, or products.
- Distribute instructional or library materials.
- Order instructional or library materials or equipment.
- Assist students with special educational needs.
- Supervise school or student activities.
- Administer tests to assess educational needs or progress.
- Develop strategies or programs for students with special needs.
Nice To Haves - Data entry software
- Microsoft Excel
- Children's educational software
- Compact digital cameras
- Compact disk CD players
- Desktop computers
- Educational board games
- Educational puzzles
- Educational toys
- Email software
- Emergency first aid kits
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Word
- Pegboards
- Personal computers
- Photocopying equipment
- Play structures
- Sand tables
- Toy block sets
- Water tables
Benefits Paid vacation
Job Tags
Full time, Internship, Outdoor,