Infant/Toddler Teacher

Celebree School Mission

At every Celebree School™, our mission is to protect, educate, and nurture the children in our care. Child care jobs with our School family are life-changing ones. We say Celebree Schools are a place where we grow people big and small because we all learn from each other, every day. At Celebree Schools, we are committed to offering qualified educators rewarding child care jobs. We encourage staff members opportunities to become increasingly proficient in their position with the chance to grow within the Celebree Organization. To those ends, we have developed and implemented our Employee Investment Cycle.

Job Duties

Manages classroom ensuring compliance with all MSDE-OCC regulations, company standards, policies and procedures.

Provides a welcoming and friendly classroom environment for all children, parents and visitors.

Maintains attractive and current classroom/hallway displays and an educational and informative Parent Board that is updated regularly.

Creates and implements thorough, timely lesson plans that are age appropriate and stimulating in accordance with weekly themes and Celebree's curriculum; manages effective classroom transitions.

Assists and supervises children during all activities; counsels children as needed using positive and appropriate discipline techniques.

Ensures that appearance, cleanliness and safe environment of classroom are appropriately maintained.

Accurately completes all classroom paperwork, e.g., Sunshine Reports, accident reports, attendance records.

Communicates effectively with parents, e.g., greeting by name, addressing concerns in a timely manner, giving positive feedback, and providing regular updates on their child's development and classroom happenings.

Identifies opportunities and/or problems in the classroom and school and works with the assistant teacher and/or school director to resolve.

Requirements

Physical Demands: The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. The job requires frequent bending, stooping, squatting, reaching, lifting and carrying; ability to lift 50 pounds.

Education/Experience: 90 clock hrs in Child Development and Curriculum Planning plus 45 clock hrs of Infant/Toddler Training OR 90 clock hrs Infant/Toddler Child Development and Curriculum. AA degree (or college credit equivalent) in Early Childhood Education or higher is preferred. Additionally, 9 clock hrs of training in communicating with staff, parents, and the public is also required if candidate has had no college coursework at all.

MD state credential Level 5

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