524 Pine Street
Who We Are
Founded in 1988, comprised of almost 300 schools, listed as the 4th largest private child care provider in the United States. Childcare Network offers a warm, caring environment with high- quality education for children ages 6 weeks to 12 years. Our proprietary, research-based High Reach learning curriculum is individualized to every age, with activities that combine learning and fun to create happy, curious kids.
Overview
A Child Care Teacher is responsible for maintaining a safe and fun environment for young children to preteens. Their duties include coming up with creative and educational activities, preparing and serving snacks to children and maintaining a clean environment for the children.
Customer focused
Manages relationships
Hospitable
Organized and efficient
Manages own performance
Understanding of Early Head Start Philosophy
Understanding of the principles, practices and current state of child health and nutrition
Results oriented
Honors confidentiality
Critical thinker and problem solver
Manages technology
Strong organizational, verbal and written communications skills
Familiarity with community resources
High School Diploma/GED
Early Childhood Education experience a plus
- Demonstrate knowledge of the Head Start Performance Standards policies and procedures.
- Plan and maintain a safe, clean, learning environment, and assures the well-being and safety of children in her/his care.
- Establish a caring professional relationship and a climate of mutual trust and respect for families.
- Plan and implement activities with children between the ages of zero and three, with the curriculum provided and with Head Start mandated outcomes.
- Maintain a cooperative attitude of working together with center staff, volunteers, parents, and program specialists in planning and implementing classroom activities.
- Plan and implement daily activities that engage children in literacy, language, and math activities using songs, books and games that are integrated with themes/topics.
- Use assessment information for individually interacting with children during learning center activities and other times for teaching identified concepts.
- Maintain accurate and current assessment information noting child's progress across all developmental domains utilizing anecdotal notes and/ or examples of children's work.
- Timely and accurately complete all paperwork, including home visit forms, parent/teacher conference forms, lesson plans, and transition forms..
- Encourage and models language expansion, extended learning and problem solving strategies throughout the day.
- Assure child-staff ratio is maintained at all times.
- Protect all children from physical punishment or verbal abuse by anyone in any program activity, and immediately reports any such incident the Director
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Job ID: 2022-17761
External Company Name: Childcare Network, Inc.
External Company URL: childcarenetwork.com
