Lead Teacher

Job Description

The experience expected from applicants, as well as additional skills and qualifications needed for this job are listed below.

About This Role

Responsible for creating and maintaining a safe, nurturing, and engaging environment where children can learn, play, and grow. Duties include observing and supervising children's activities, supporting their emotional, social, and cognitive development, and fostering positive interactions and self-confidence. Maintains open communication with parents and guardians regarding children's daily activities, progress, and behaviors. Provides quality care and guidance while ensuring the health, safety, and well-being of all children in the program. This position will start off as support staff to train and make sure you are a good fit for the position then would become the Lead Teacher of 2 year olds.

What You'll Do

• Maintain a safe play environment.
• Observe and monitor children's play activities.
• Communicate with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.
• Support children's emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.
• Care for children in institutional setting, such as group homes, nursery schools, private businesses, or schools for people with disabilities.
• Sanitize toys and play equipment.
• Dress children and change diapers.
• Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.
• Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents' or guardians' attention.
• Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits.
• Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas.
• Perform general administrative tasks, such as taking attendance, editing internal paperwork, and making phone calls.
• Create developmentally appropriate lesson plans.
• Perform housekeeping duties, such as laundry, cleaning, dish washing, and changing of linens.
• Redirect children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books.
• Regulate children's rest periods.
• Help children with homework and school work.
• Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.

Requirements

• Must be 18 and have high school diploma or equivalent
• CDA or be willing to obtain within the first 6 months of hire or hold an Associates degree in ECE
• pass a drug screen
• background check and fingerprinting
• physical

Nice To Haves

• CPR/First Aid
• experience in ECE

Benefits

• Aflac-vision, dental, cancer, and accident
• paid vacation time after a year of employment

About Us

HUMmingbird Daycare Ministry has been proudly serving families since 1986, providing quality care and education for children from infancy through school age. As a Level 3 Paths to QUALITY™ facility, we are committed to high standards in early childhood development. xhyhwjd Our mission is to make a meaningful difference in every child's life by offering a safe, nurturing, and enriching environment where they can grow, learn, and thrive.