Early Childhood Lead Teacher

Job Description

Job Description

Vision: Helping generations thrive, neighborhood by neighborhood

Mission: Sharing God’s love by walking with children cradle to career, supporting their families, and engaging in neighborhood transformation

Core Values: Christ Centered | Strategic Relentlessness | Nurturing Dignity | Excellence | Life Together

Professional Standards: Donor-Ready | Respectful | Ethical | Accountable | Mission-Focused

Position Title: Early Childhood Lead Teacher

Reports to: Early Childhood Pathway Coordinator

Job Type/ Classification: Full Time/Hourly/Non-Exempt

Salary: starting at $19, depending on education and experience

Position Summary : The Early Learning Lead Teacher (ECLT) is responsible for effectively supporting and executing Dream Center Evansville’s (DCE) early childhood programs and initiatives. The ECLT promotes positive early childhood development and kindergarten readiness for DCE’s early childhood population. 

Principal Responsibilities :  

• Classroom Instruction - Lead teacher within DCE’s Eaglets Pre-K program that promotes kindergarten readiness through engaging activities and a structure that will prepare children for their transition into the school environment.
  • Instructional Responsibilities:

• • • Maintain a safe and inclusive learning environment for all children
    • Create and implement lesson plans that align with the curriculum and education standards
    • Facilitate opportunities for each child’s social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development 
    • Use developmentally appropriate classroom management practices to reduce conflict and create a safe, respectful place for children
    • Assess children’s progress, intentionally reflect, then plan experiences and activities to scaffold learning
    • Communicate regularly with families about children’s progress, experiences, and developmental milestones
    • Collaborate with other early childhood staff to enhance and improve educational practices
    • Participate in professional development opportunities 

• Student Assessment and Data Support: The ECLT helps collect relevant data on children including, but not limited to, child development measures such as Creative Curriculum GOLD, MEFS, ECERS and Brigance. The ECLT provides regular reports regarding assessment data, goals, and interventions.
• Family Engagement : In coordination with the Family Development Team, the ECLT will engage with the DCE families to ensure holistic support of children and their families. The ECLT will regularly communicate with parents to help maintain a positive Promise partnership between children, their parents, and DCE staff. The ECLT will regularly attend and assist with family engagement events led by the Family Development Team. 

Job Specifications Requirements

• Strongly Preferred: 1 to 2 years of experience working with children ages 0-5 or experience teaching Pre-K
• Demonstrated ability to connect and sustain relationships across socio-cultural backgrounds.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate in problem-solving on complex issues.
• Demonstrated ability to perform in a fast-paced and data-driven environment.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and with an interdisciplinary team.
• Personal saving faith in Jesus Christ. 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and expertise in group presentations. 

Education:

• Required: High school diploma or GED
• Required: Early Childhood education experience, training and/or credit hours; willingness to obtain early childhood educator/lead teacher certification
• Preferred: Associate degree in Early Childhood education or Child Development Associate (CDA)

Conditions of Employment:

• Must be 21 or over.
• Hold a valid driver’s license, and be comfortable to safely operate any of the DCE vehicles transporting students, including a 15-passenger van.
• Criminal background check must show no conviction of a felony or misdemeanor crime including, but not limited to abuse, drugs or alcohol, neglect, theft or fraud.

Dream Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer It is the policy of Dream Center Evansville to provide equal opportunity in employment to all employees and applicants for employment. No person will be discriminated against in employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal or state law.

This job description is designed to provide guidelines and direction for accomplishing program, organizational, regional and individual goals and objectives. It covers the primary responsibilities and activities involved in the effective execution of this position. It is not meant to be all encompassing or all-inclusive.

Dream Center Evansville Statement of Faith

The Bible: We believe that the Old and New Testament Scriptures, given by inspiration of God, contain all truth necessary for faith and Christian living (2nd Timothy 3:16).
God: We believe in one God, eternally existing in three distinct persons: The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit.
Jesus: We believe that Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Triune Godhead, eternally one with the Father, became a man by the Holy Spirit and was born of the Virgin Mary, fully God and fully man. Jesus, though sharing in our humanity completely, lived a perfect and sinless life. (John 6:35, John 14:6, Philippians 2:5-7, Colossians 1:15-20, John 1:1-3, Luke 22:66-71, John 5:14-18).
Salvation: All have sinned and the wages of sin is death. We believe that because of God’s divine love for us, Jesus Christ, by His suffering, the shedding of His blood, and His death on the cross, made a payment in our place for all human sin, and that this sacrifice is the only ground of salvation.