School Site Early Childhood Assistant Teacher Part Time

Description

The Assistant Teacher supports the Lead Teacher in creating a safe and healthy environment for children while ensuring compliance with all policies and regulations. Responsibilities include assisting in planning and implementing educational activities that promote children's overall development. The role also involves helping to manage the classroom in alignment with company values, fostering positive relationships with parents and colleagues, and conducting ongoing assessments to track and communicate children's progress.

Requirements

GENERAL DUTIES:

Supervision/Health and Safety

• Supervise and monitor the children at all times.
• Assist with diapering, toileting, and other personal care routines while maintaining children's safety, comfort, dignity, and hygiene.
• Implement all activities in a safe efficient manner.
• Use positive redirection, positive language and positive reinforcement to guide the children in your care.
• Recognize, document and take appropriate action of suspected child abuse and neglect, illness or accident.

Program

• Plan, develop, prepare, and Implement educational activities including a variety of themes and subjects, such as language development, math development, diversity, gross and fine motor skills development, self-help skill development, science, art, music, health and hygiene and self-esteem. 
• Individualize one-to-one and group activities to reflect the unique needs and strengths of all in each group.
• Follow a consistent schedule which includes small and large group experiences for each child.
• Enhance the program using a variety of techniques which include modeling, observing, questioning, demonstrating and reinforcing for the children.
• Observe, assess and evaluate each child’s progress in your group keeping written records.

Parent Relations

• Respect and communicate in a professional manner with parents to build long term relationships with families.
• Communicate with parents on a regular basis on each child’s progress and the activities of each area (daily notes home, what we did today, notes posted to door, etc.)
• Maintain confidentiality concerning child issues and handle this information in an appropriate manner.

Staff Relations

• Promote and maintain good working relationships with other staff members as well as members of the management team.
• Participate in scheduled staff meetings

SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES:

Self-Awareness: Ability to fully understand the impact emotions have on performance, assessment of strengths and weaknesses, relationships, and others. Demonstrates self-confidence, initiative, motivation, optimism and flexibility.

• Self-Management: Ability to manage behaviors, thoughts, and emotions in a conscious and productive way. Models the ability to implement self-control in assessing frustrations and failures and models resilience and courage. Understands personal responsibility in different aspects of life and work, and what is needed to fulfill that responsibility.
• Social Awareness: Ability to understand and learn about the diverse perspective of others. Includes listening, honoring others views, assessing impact of words, and the desire to serve others in effort to meet their needs appropriately and professionally.
• Relationship Skills: Ability to build relationships which model caring, concern and healthy conflict. Demonstrates positive methods of collaboration and conflict resolution. Ability to positively lead and inspire others and integrate such models personally. Demonstrates ability to support positive work culture, which encourages results from others.
• Responsible Decision Making: Ability to make constructive choices about personal behavior and social interactions based on ethical standards, safety concerns, and social norms; the realistic evaluation of consequences of various actions; and a consideration of the well-being of oneself and others

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must be proficient with the use of workforce technology (i.e. computers and smartphones) with the ability to complete basic tasks including but not limited to electronic lesson planning, sending and managing emails, navigating data bases, keeping files and folders organized, using the internet, and other basic functions.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.
• Valid Driver’s License and liability insurance.
• Ability to perform all job requirements satisfactorily and meet the Education/Experience, Personal Skills/Characteristics, Reasoning Ability, Physical Conditions, Work Environment and Environmental Conditions listed below.

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE:

• Must be at least 18 years old
• High School Diploma 
• Associates Degree/CDA preferred
• Some experience with infants and young children preferred.
• Must meet or exceed licensing requirements for age, education and experience

PHYSICAL CONDITIONS:

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of situations.
• Requires normal range of hearing and vision.
• Requires the ability to lift 50 pounds.
• Requires daily standing, sitting, bending and stooping.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Ability to work overtime and odd schedules.

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS:

• Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• No or very limited exposure to physical risk.
• Exposure to childhood diseases.