Assistant Teacher/Floater

Early Childhood Education Assistant Teacher

Description: As an Early Childhood Education Assistant Teacher your job is to ensure that the children in your care basic needs are met, that you follow the classrooms schedule/routine, that you follow the classrooms lesson plan. It will be your job to ensure that the children in your classroom emotional/social needs are being met as well. This will entail engaging with the children, holding/cuddling them, have an understanding of their backgrounds, and showing them affection. This also means teaching them discipline through conscious, natural, and logical consequences. In no way shape or form will corporal punishment be conducted. Listed below are the requirements for this position such as educational/training, age, physical/mobility, etc.

Requirements:

- Must be 18 years or older

- Must pass fingerprints/ background check

- Must pass drug test

- Have valid driver’s license with transportation

- Able to lift, move, push up to 50 pounds

Required continued Education/Training:

- Orientation for Child Care Program Professionals within first week

- Safe Sleep Training with in first week

- Entry-Level Child-Care Training (ELCCT) due within 90 days

- Infectious Control (annually)

- CPR & First Aid Training within 90 days

- 20 hours of ECE training (annually)

Job duties:

- Assisting where it’s needed: As the assistant teacher your roll will be to ensure that the

homeroom teacher’s expectations are still met while you’re in their room. It will also be your job

to assist with anything that may be needed to allow the classroom to function properly.

- Diapering/Toileting: every child must be changed every 1 hour or as needed. Diaper

changes/Toileting must be logged into the child’s brightwheel as soon as the task is performed. If

you have to apply any diaper creams it must be noted and explained as to why.

30Diapering/Toileting procedures must be followed to ensure you are be sanitary with changing

children. They are listed above all changing tables.

- Handwashing: Children and staff must wash their hands after every encounter with

diapering/toileting, handling any bodily fluids (blood, feces, snot, saliva, etc.) This may require

the teacher to ensure and assist the child.

- Cleanliness, Sanitation, and Organization: It is the teacher’s responsibility to ensure that their

classrooms maintain a well-mannered state. Toys, shelves, walls, floors, etc. should all be free

from soiled debris. This means wiping down walls, trash cans, shelves, doors etc. with proper

cleaners throughout the day. Ensuring that if a child places a toy in their mouth that it is put up

and not returned until cleaned. Dunking toys at least weekly to ensure that the spread of germs is

kept to a minimum. Children must be clean and free from food, snot, and debris upon departure.

The last teacher in a classroom will also be responsible for breaking the room down upon their

departure. This means ensuring that everything is clean, put away, trash taken and ready for the

next day.

- Communication: Teachers will be required to communicate with parents and staff on a daily

basis. This will be through brightwheel, messaging, and in person conversations. While

communicating with parents’ staff must ensure that confidentiality is kept. When communicating

amongst staff and parents’ teachers must ensure that they are being respectful, checking the

literacy of the context, and being direct with the message. When leaving a room or relieving

another staff you must communicate what has been done or what needs to be done.

- Meal time/ feedings, and drinks: It is the teacher’s responsibility to ensure that all children are

being offered meals upon the scheduled meal times. All meals served should be documented into

the child’s brightwheel. It is the staff’s responsibility to know of any food allergies and ensure

that they are followed for the safety of the children. Staff are not allowed to use meal time/food as

a punishment or reward system. Staff will not be allowed to share personal food or drinks with

the children. All children will have access to their water bottles at all times during the day. It is

the teacher’s responsibility to ensure that the children’s water bottles/baby bottles are label with

the child’s name. this will allow everyone to ensure that children are not sharing the same water

bottles/bottles.

- Rest time/cots/cribs: It is the teacher’s job to ensure that all children have their own cots and

blankets that are labeled with the child’s name. These will be wash weekly or as needed. For

infants they will have their own crib labeled and their sheets will be wash daily. During rest time

it is the teacher’s job to encourage rest time but is not allowed to force a child to go to sleep or to

stay on their cot/crib. For infants it is the teacher’s job to allow them to sleep when they so sign

of tiredness.

Outdoor time: It is required by DHS that ALL children are offered outside time when the

weather is permitted. This means when the temperatures FEEL LIKES are between 32-94

degrees. During these times it will be the teacher’s job to ensure that the children are dressed

appropriately, adjust the length of time outside and use their better judgements. The teachers are

expected to be up moving around and engaging with the children while outside. Outside time

allows for large movement activities which can lead to more incidents. Water bottles are

REQUIRED to be taken outside with ALL classes along with outside/emergency backpacks. It is

the teacher’s job to ensure that their backpacks are furnished with the appropriate equipme

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: $9.50 - $11.00 per hour

Expected hours: 20 – 40 per week

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Paid time off

Work Location: In person