Hs Teacher I - Downey, United States - MEXICAN AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION

MEXICAN AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION
MEXICAN AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION
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MEXICAN AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION

_Position:
_ HS Teacher I


_Program:
_ Head Start Program (Los Angeles County)


_Salary:
_ $21.00- $23.49


_Status:
_ Non-exempt (40 hours per week)


_Reports To:
_ Area Supervisor and Program Director


DEFINITION:


A staff person who provides planned opportunities for children in activities designed to promote social, physical and cognitive growth and development.

Responsible for planning individual and group activities that are designed to promote each child?s individual strengths as a result of ongoing assessments and observations.

Incorporates parent?s goals for their child into the daily activities.


I. COMPONENT MISSION
The objectives of the Education Services Component are to:

  • Provide children with a learning environment and developmentally appropriate opportunities that will foster each child?s social, emotional, physical and cognitive growth.
  • Integrate the aspects of the various Early Head Start component areas into the schedule of educational activities.
  • Encourage parents to provide continuity from center to home activities and to reinforce their role as the primary influence on their child?s education and development.
  • Assist parents in identifying educational activities for their children in the home.
  • Support parents to increase their knowledge, understanding and experiences of their child?s growth and development.

II. GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND SPECIFIC DUTIES (not limited to)

Environmental

  • Develop plans to ensure that daily activities provide for the safety of each child when using indoor and outdoor facilities.
  • Conducts daily inspection of indoor and outdoor facilities using the agency daily check list; removing hazardous debris, unsafe equipment and materials and ensures that the classroom and center facility is free of garbage.
  • Provides continuous supervision of all children?s activities to ensure their safety.
  • Establishes safety rules in the daily routines of children that are understandable and predictable by children and adults.
  • Develops and posts an emergency exit plan and conducts monthly emergency exit drills.
  • Plans and implements classroom activities that encourage healthy habits appropriate to the age of the children in the classroom.
  • Conducts a daily health check for each child, recognizing and reporting illnesses of children to appropriate health personnel.
  • Selects and incorporates materials and equipment that are age appropriate and invite children to practice their emerging skills.
  • Maintains an ageappropriate environment that is orderly and inviting to children
  • Includes children?s culture(s) in materials available in the classroom that are age appropriate
  • Assists children during meal and snack time demonstrating appropriate dental and personal hygiene. Uses these opportunities to foster language development.

Developmental and Educational

  • Based on assessment and observation, plan and implement activities to meet the individual needs of the children including those children that have special needs.
  • Plan and implement a positive and comfortable routine within the classroom environment through realistic limits for the children, providing for active and quite opportunities and establishing consistent and appropriate transitions from one activity to another.
  • Develops and implements weekly lesson plan.
  • Maintains and documents ongoing observation, progress, and developmental progress of each child.
  • Implements the Infant/Family Services Plan for each child with special needs.
  • Works individually with children that need additional opportunities to foster their growth and development.
  • Provide materials, equipment, and opportunities within daily routines that foster the development of large and small motor skills for each child.
  • Ensure that daily routines provide opportunities for each child that address special needs, cultural backgrounds and linguistic groups.
  • Plan and implement activities that provide children with challenging opportunities that encourage both verbal and non verbal communication, curiosity, and problem solving skills ensuring the ability to communicate in, and further the child?s familiarity with their primary language.
  • In bilingual settings, communicates both verbally and in writing with both parents and children in their primary language when possible.
  • Provide opportunities for children to use and develop their creative abilities through exploration and experimentation. These opportunities should include a variety of media through art, music and dramatic activities that encompass all aspects of the program.
  • Plan and implement opportunities that aid each child in the development of selfesteem, awareness and the ability to express his/her feelings, and to develop confidence as an individual and a member of a cultural/ethnic group.
  • Assist children in their development of independence and social skills through opportunities in whic
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