Infant Toddler Teacher - Amite Job at CAPCA
STATEMENT OF THE JOB: Under the overall supervision of the Early Childhood Director and the direct supervision of the Project Director, the Infant/Toddler Teacher is responsible for directly providing care, supervision and guidance to infants/toddlers and implementing the educational program in the infant/toddler classroom.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Maintain a professional attitude with staff, parents, volunteers, and children at all times.
- Plan and implement learning experiences that advance the intellectual and physical development of children, including improving the readiness of children for school by developing their:
- literacy, phonemic, and print awareness
- understanding and use of language
- understanding and use of increasing complex and varied vocabulary
- appreciation of books
- understanding of early math and early science
- problem-solving abilities and
- approaches to learning.
- Establish and maintain a safe, healthy learning environment.
- Support the social and emotional development of children.
- Encourage the involvement of the families of the children and support the development of relationships between children and their families.
- Responsible for forming positive, trusting and nurturing relationships with children.
- Responsible for:
- creating a warm and welcoming environment that supports childrens growth and development
- implementing the curriculum and developing and implementing daily lesson plans
- promoting developmentally appropriate practices
- using routines as opportunities for growth and learning.
- providing activities that facilitate childrens growth and development
- arranging and conducting educational home visits and parent conferences and
- guiding childrens behavior in positive ways.
- Promote good eating habits with toddlers by conversing and encouraging good table manners when food is served.
- Responsible for observing children regularly and individualizing for each child based on these observations.
- Responsible for ongoing assessment of enrolled children to monitor child outcomes.
- Provide supervision for children, or volunteers in the classroom.
- Responsible for maintaining daily a high quality program of work and designated record keeping.
- Work cooperatively with other classroom/center staff.
- Is knowledgeable in all aspects of use and design of learning centers.
- Responsible for the orderliness and cleanliness of the classroom.
- Assist in providing training and technical assistance to other center staff in overall child development.
- Work with Administrative Office staff, support staff and consultants in implementing recommendations.
- Assist in the assessment of the Education and Early Childhood Development Work Plan.
- Attend and participate in center staff meetings. Participate in parent meetings and staffings as requested.
- Assist in obtaining and documenting In-Kind (Non-Federal Match) for parent and community activities.
- Must be able to see, hear and respond to childrens needs, emergencies and conflicts that might occur in the classroom, playground, bathrooms or other areas used by children.
- Responsible for data management in child development areas.
- Assist in the avoidance or appearance of fraud and ensure compliance in the overall management of the Early Childhood area.
NON- ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Respect confidentiality in all aspects of the Head Start Program.
- Participate in all training designed for professional development.
- Document attendance of a minimum of 15 clock hours of approved professional developmentper year that is high-quality, sustained, intensive and classroom-focused.
- Able to handle stress, tension and exasperation that contact with many children and adults may bring every day.
- May be called upon to administer first aid to children or staff at any time in the program. The incidental nature of this circumstance effectively establishes first aid as a collateral duty rather than a primary one.
- Perform other duties as needed and required for efficient operation of the Center, needs and welfare of the children.
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