Full-time Early Childhood Lead Teacher, Toddlers

Job Description

Job Description

Trinity School for Children , a well-established early childhood program in Tampa celebrating 27 years , is seeking an enthusiastic Early Childhood Lead Teacher to join our team for the 2026-2027 school year.

We provide a premier educational experience for children ages infant through Pre-K and value strong family partnerships, community engagement, and teacher development.

Shift: Lead Teacher working hours are 7:15am-3:15pm Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday; Tuesdays 7:15am-3:45pm for staff meetings, training, and/or team meetings.

Position Summary:

Lead Teachers plan and implement learning experiences that advance the intellectual, emotional, social, and physical development of children within a safe, healthy learning environment. In this role, you will support the development and daily care of young children in an early childh classroom.

Essential Functions:

• Foster a safe, nurturing, and engaging classroom environment
• Implement developmentally appropriate curriculum and activities
• Use positive guidance and developmentally appropriate discipline
• Maintain constant supervision and safety of children
• Communicate effectively with parents, teachers, and administrators
• Maintain a clean, organized classroom
• Collaborate with colleagues and participate in team meetings and trainings

Our Approach to Behavior Support

Trinity implements Program Wide Positive Behavior Support (PWPBS) using the  Pyramid Model , an evidence-based framework that promotes social-emotional development and prevents challenging behavior in young children.
Teachers receive ongoing training and coaching from our PBS Leadership Team.

• Learn more about PWPBS here: PWPBS_Brochure.pdf

Our Credo:

What potentialities in human beings - children, teachers and ourselves - do we want to see develop?

• A zest for living that comes from taking in the world with all five senses alert

• Lively intellectual curiosities that turn the world into an exciting laboratory and keep one ever a learner

• Flexibility when confronted with change and ability to relinquish patterns that no longer fit the present

• The courage to work, unafraid and efficiently, in a world of new needs, new problems and new ideas

• Gentleness combined with justice in passing judgments on other human beings

• Sensitivity, not only to the external formal rights of the "other fellow" but to him as another human being seeking a good life through his own standards

• A striving to live democratically, in and out of schools, as the best way to advance our concept of democracy

Our credo demands ethical standards as well as scientific attitudes. Our work is based on faith that human beings can improve the society they have created.

Qualifications

Required

• 3 years experience
• DCF introductory training hours completed
• CDA or Associate’s Degree in Early Childhood Education or related field
• Warm, nurturing personality and strong communication skills
• Ability to lift up to 30 lbs and participate in active classroom routines
• Warm, friendly personality
• Sensitive to the feelings and needs of others
• Ability to maintain professionalism and apply conflict resolution skills with children, parents, and staff
• Willing to fulfill responsibilities in accordance with Trinity’s educational philosophy
• Pre-employment requirements include satisfactory reference checks, drug screen (employer paid), and criminal background check ($95)

Preferred

• Bachelor’s Degree in Education or related field
• Florida Teaching Certificate

Learn more about our organization:

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• LinkedIn: -school-for-children

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7:15am-3:15pm Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday; Tuesdays 7:15am-3:45pm for staff meetings, training, and/or team meetings