Preschool Lead Teacher - License Child Care center

Summary

Instruct preschool-aged children in activities designed to promote social, physical, and intellectual growth

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, work with potty training or changing their diapers.
• Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.
• 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
• Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students and the school.
• Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
• 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.
• 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.
• Organize and label materials and display students' work in a manner appropriate for their ages and perceptual skills.
• Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
• Collaborate with other teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of preschool programs.
• Attend staff meetings
• Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.
• Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.

Requirements

• Establish rules or policies governing student behavior.
• Read to students.
• Plan educational activities.
• Evaluate student work.
• Monitor student behavior, social development, or health.
• Discuss problems or issues with supervisors.
• Discuss student progress with parents
• Enforce rules or policies governing student behavior.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Associate's degree in education or 9 college credits in Early Childhood Education
• First Aid and CPR certification
• Highs school is a MUST

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Paid federal holidays
• FMLA
• 401K