Infant Lead Teacher

Job Description

Job Description

About This Role

Kid Angles is hiring a Team Teacher for our infant program (6weeks-12months).

This is a full-time, Monday-Friday position (8am- 5:30pm), and we're looking for someone who can step in, build strong relationships, and help bring stability and care to our youngest learners.

Kid Angles: The Early Education School is a play-based, Reggio Emilia-inspired program where educators work alongside children and families to create meaningful, responsive experiences rooted in each child's development and interests. Evan with our youngest infants, we prioritize connection, communication, and respectful, relationship-based care.

We are looking for someone who:

• truly enjoys working with infants
• can be calm, responsive, and present in a fast-paced environment
• values teamwork, communication, and consistency for children and families
• is dependable and ready to work right away

We are a team that values professionalism, support, and doing what's best for children; always. Right now, we're looking for someone who can help us show up fully for our infant classroom. If you're reliable, caring, and ready to be part of something meaningful, we'd love to connect!

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, all the requirements listed below.

• Treat all children with dignity and respect
• Model communication and mediate conflict resolution
• Diaper Changing
• Support children and families with bottle feeding
• Planning and implementing provocations and activities for children based on observation of children's needs and interest
• Plan and prepare the learning environment to best serve the children within the classroom
• Serve meals
• Observe, record, and report behavior of children and their development
• Maintain progress of records/ portfolios of each child's growth and development
• Participate in professional organizations that work for the improvement of early childhood education
• Attend school functions
• Conduct regular formal and/or informal parent/teacher conferences on each child's school adjustment, classroom behavior, and developmental progress
• Work in collaboration with families to promote understanding of their child's growth and development; encourage parent participation within the school community
• Supervise the classroom at all times
• Communicate effectively and professionally with children, families, and co-workers
• Delegate tasks and communicate instructions to support staff
• General Housekeeping tasks such as but not limited to, decluttering, sanitizing/disinfecting, cleaning bathrooms, sweeping/mopping floors, etc.

Professionally prepared as an educator of young children, especially in the field of early childhood education and/or child development, meeting the requirements of licensing agencies and accrediting organizations. A warm, sensitive, mature individual who relates to children and adults.

• CDA / Associate's Degree or higher in Early Childhood Education or a related field.
• 1 yr of experience working with infants/toddlers in a professional setting

• Meet state & accreditation minimum training requirements (30hrs)
• Experience and/or knowledge of the Reggio Emilia approach
• Experience with childcare management software (Brightwheel)

• Employee Discount
• Paid Time Off
• Annual Professional Development Fund
• Tuition Scholarship Opportunities
• Paid Holidays
• Supplemental Insurance

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.