Lead Teacher, Infant and Toddler
Wonders Early Learning and Extended Day
Lead Teacher, Infant and Toddler
Location: Bethesda, Maryland 20816
Position Type: Full-Time
About Wonders
Wonders Early Learning + Extended Day is a child care organization that has spent decades treating educators as professionals and children as full people. We are not a national chain. We are a community of educators committed to anti-bias practice, dignity, and the kind of relationships with children and families that take time to build.
Our Mission: To cultivate curiosity, resilience, and social responsibility in children by fostering high-quality, nurturing, and inclusive educational communities led by skilled professionals.
Why Work for Wonders Early Learning + Extended Day?
Play isn’t just fun, it’s fundamental. Children learn about the world by exploring ideas, manipulating objects, investigating creative materials, and problem-solving with others. Wonders teachers use observation and planning to create learning experiences that are intentional and provide meaningful context for children to practice skills and express ideas. Join the Wonders family of caring, dedicated, and fun educators.
About the Role
As a Lead Teacher in Infant and Toddler, you are the developmental anchor of the classroom. You review and refine each child's care plan drafted by their Teacher. You coach Teachers in observation, planning, and family communication. You lead family conferences and the most sensitive conversations. This is a job for someone who finds the rhythms of infant and toddler care deeply interesting: the way attachment builds, the way language emerges, the way a child becomes themselves in the first two years.
What You'll Do
- Review and finalize care plans drafted by Teachers, and write a share of them yourself.
- Own the weekly rhythm: the group plan, the family newsletter, and the weekly online family connect hour.
- Lead the teaching team pedagogically through planning time, modeling, and reflective conversation about each child.
- Lead semi-annual family conferences and the most sensitive family conversations.
- Ground daily practice in the Wonders Fundamentals: anti-bias education, dignity, and respect for each child and family.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education or equivalent, preferred.
- Minimum of an Associate's degree in ECE; or a 90-hour course plus 45 hours specific to infants; or 90 hours specific to infants and toddlers; or an Infant/Toddler CDA credential or the new All Ages CDA. The common Preschool CDA does not qualify for infant and toddler classrooms.
- Qualifies as Maryland State Senior Staff.
- Minimum of three years of classroom experience with infant and toddler children, including at least one year in a leadership role.
- Pediatric First Aid and CPR certification.
What We Offer
Compensation at Wonders is more than a paycheck. We pay competitively within the region's early care and education sector. Total compensation includes health insurance, paid time off, retirement contributions, professional learning support, and a culture that takes educator growth seriously.
Ready to join our community of educators? Apply today to become part of the Wonders team.
$17 - $25 per hour
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