Assistant Teacher

Job Description

Job Description

About This Role

We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Assistant Teacher to join our team at Kid Angles. This is a temporary position to cover a teacher's leave, with the potential to become a permanent employee for the right candidate.

We value relationships, curiosity, and learning through meaningful, hands-on experiences. Our classrooms are collaborative spaces where children are seen as capable, and teachers are trusted professionals.

The ideal candidate will be a team player, with a passion for early childhood education and a desire to grow in the field. They will be responsible for supporting routines, creating a calm, engaging environment, and communicating with kindness and professionalism.

This is a great opportunity for someone looking to gain experience in a high-quality, relationship-based program, with the possibility of continuing on with our team long-term. If you're someone who shows up, works hard, and truly cares about young children, we'd love to connect!

• Actively engage with children to create a safe and nurturing environment while adhering to the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct.
• Support the Lead Teacher in implementing classroom activities, observations, documentation, and curriculum implementation, while also ensuring the classroom remains tidy and sanitized.
• Communicate professionally and respectfully with families, coworkers, children, and administration, and demonstrate the ability to sit on the floor, get up easily, and move around the classroom.
• Participate fully in singing, dancing, reading, and hands-on play, while assisting with serving meals and performing housekeeping tasks related to classroom upkeep.
• Help create a calm, engaging environment and support routines, while also singing, dancing, reading, and participating in hands-on play.
• Collaborate with the Lead Teacher in classroom activities, observations, documentation, and curriculum implementation, and ensure the classroom remains tidy and sanitized.
• Engage fully in singing, dancing, reading, and hands-on play, and communicate professionally and respectfully with families, coworkers, children, and administration.
• Assist with serving meals, cleaning up, and maintaining a tidy and sanitized classroom, while also supporting the Lead Teacher in classroom activities, observations, documentation, and curriculum implementation.

• Pass a 5-panel drug screen.
• Successful completion of the fingerprints/background check process.
• Physical exam clearance.
• Commitment to completing 30 hours of annual professional development training.
• Experience working with children in a professional setting.
• High school diploma or equivalent.

• A CDA certification, indicating a commitment to early childhood education and a willingness to pursue ongoing professional development.

• Paid time off
• Employee discount
• Early Childhood Education scholarship opportunities (after probationary period)
• Annual professional development fund
• Supplemental Insurance Policies
• Life Insurance Policies

Play and learning at Kid Angles is about the process, not the product. Children are able to reach their potential in each domain of development through our play-based, Reggio Emilia-inspired practices. We believe that children are capable of complex thinking, curious, independent, full of possibilities, and competent. They are capable of exploring and constructing their own findings. Children are wonders: they question everything, develop a deeper understanding, make predictions, and communicate their discoveries. The environment is meant to be a third teacher, playing an important role by sparking a child’s interest and inspiring wonders. The environment will provide learning experiences in response to children’s interests with intentional materials that promote deeper thinking skills. The materials provided will enrich the environment by allowing them to bump into literacy and math throughout the day.

An educator’s role in this type of classroom may look very different than most. (And it takes some time to get used to this idea!) Said by Loris Malaguzzi, “Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before.” This quote says it all. An educator’s role is to work as a partner in learning. We are to provoke children’s ideas, model questioning and researching attitudes, and listen.

The Director’s role in our facility is to manage day-to-day operations, working closely with educators and families to ensure a successful program. The Director adjusts and implements effective policies and procedures that promote the program's philosophy.

The Classroom Mentor’s role in our facility is to onboard and guide educators in classroom management, curriculum development, and implementation of Reggio Emilia-inspired practices.