Preschool Teacher in 3/4 Classroom - Strafford, United States - Whitehouse Early Learning Center

Description

Summary

Instruct 3- and 4-year-old children in activities designed to promote social, physical, and intellectual growth needed for in preschool day care center.

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, and changing their diapers.
• Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.
• Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order.
• 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, and field trips.
• Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
• Identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or healthrelated problems and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists.
• Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and needs, determine their priorities for their children, and suggest ways that they can promote learning and development.
• Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students.
• Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
• Teach proper eating habits and personal hygiene.
• Serve meals and snacks.
• Assimilate arriving children to the school environment by greeting them, helping them remove outerwear, and selecting activities of interest to them.
• Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
• 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, motorskill activities, and safety.
• Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws and administrative regulations.
• Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration.
• Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
• Organize and label materials and display students' work in a manner appropriate for their ages and perceptual skills.
• Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.
• Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
• Supervise, evaluate, and plan assignments for teacher assistants and volunteers.
• 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.
• Administer tests to help determine children's developmental levels, needs, and potential.

Requirements:

Minimum of 1-2 years of professional childcare experience desired.

High energy.

Ability to work well with others.

Strong oral and written communication skills and basic computer skills.

A strong understanding of child development.

Excellent leadership, organizational, and interpersonal skills.

Infant/child CPR and First Aid certification.

Be familiar with and follow licensing regulations.

Must clear full background check.

Must pass health screening.


Physical Requirements:
Be able to lift 35 pounds


Benefits
Paid Holidays after 90 days.

Paid vacation week.

Paid Snow Days

Paid Professional Development

Tuition Grants for Continuing Education

Free Childcare

Competitive Wages