2 Year Old Teacher

Job Description

Job Description

About This Role

The Teacher is responsible for developing a cohesive teaching team and creating a stimulating classroom environment that encourages children to succeed. To achieve this, Teachers must understand children's cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development and be skilled in communicating with both children and adults. This involves effectively guiding teacher assistants, resolving parental concerns, and coordinating the curriculum to meet the needs of the children.

• Develops and maintains a developmentally appropriate classroom environment that reflects the child’s learning and growth, while meeting the standards of the Red Caboose, Licensing, and Accreditation.
• Plans, evaluates, and improves the physical environment in the classroom to create opportunities to meet the changing needs of the developing child on an ongoing basis.
• Demonstrates cultural competency, inclusiveness, and respect for the child and family’s background by incorporating their cultural, linguistic, and familial values and beliefs in the childcare program and lesson plans.
• Assists families in the transition and development of their child to prepare them for the next classroom.
• Completes and reports any symptoms of child abuse to supervisor and/or child abuse hotline – Mandated Reporter.
• Conducts supervision of children on a daily and weekly basis.
• Conducts supervision of Assistant Teacher on a daily and weekly basis.
• Reports all staffing and classroom concerns to Program Director and/or Executive Director in a timely manner.
• Fulfills other duties as established within Red Caboose, Licensing and Accreditation Standards, in accordance with our Team Philosophy.
• Staff must believe and act in accordance with Red Caboose’s Mission Statement.

Written Documentation

• Maintains accurate, complete, and timely client and agency records – For example, completing daily meal, attendance, health, and incident reports in a timely manner and filling in appropriate files.
• Maintains up-to-date emergency forms, curriculum plans, individual child development profiles, and other records as needed.

Collaboration

• Participates in regularly scheduled team meetings.
• Engages in open conversation regularly with parents and other staff regarding the child’s status and progress.
• Fosters and maintains positive, ongoing, and open communication with parents/Caregivers.
• Provides a classroom experience that encourages parent participation.
• Ensures regular newsletters are sent to parents as part of the communication process in the classroom.

Curriculum

• Assesses individual and group needs, attending to special needs, specific interests, strengths, and concerns.
• Develops a learn-by-play curriculum that allows children to use their imagination and grow their skills from play and interaction.
• Develops Lesson Plans weekly that are developmentally appropriate, intellectually challenging, and help each individual child grow.
• Prepares classroom materials to coincide with weekly and daily goals and lesson plans.

Miscellaneous

• Attends meetings and trainings, as well as meeting individual Continuing Education Hours.
• Other duties as established within Red Caboose, Licensing and Accreditation Standards.

• Must have high energy and the ability to work well with others (staff, children, and parents) to foster a team environment.
• Infant/child CPR and First Aid certification is required.
• Excellent leadership, organizational, and interpersonal skills are necessary.
• Requirements include the ability to take frequent walks, use hands and fingers, handle objects, tools or controls, talk to and hear voices at many levels. May also be required to kneel, bend, squat or crawl.
• Must clear full background check and must pass health screening.
• A strong understanding of child development is essential.
• Strong oral and written communication skills and basic computer skills are required.

We are willing to work with the right individuals to meet these Requirements.

• Associate’s Degree in early childhood education or related field of study with a minimum of 30 Credits in ECE.
• Minimum of 2 years of professional child care experience.