Preschool Teacher

Job Description

Job Description

About This Role

Preschool teachers are responsible for creating a nurturing environment that fosters social, emotional, physical, and cognitive growth in young children.

What You'll Do

• Create engaging learning activities that encourage exploration, creativity, and social interaction among children.
• Develop and implement lesson plans that cater to diverse learning styles and abilities.
• Establish a safe and organized classroom environment that promotes independence, self-confidence, and self-expression.
• Build positive relationships with children, parents, and colleagues to ensure a collaborative and supportive learning community.
• Conduct regular observations and assessments to monitor children's progress and identify areas for support or enrichment.
• Communicate effectively with parents and guardians to share progress updates, address concerns, and involve them in their child's education.
• Participate in ongoing professional development to stay current with best practices, research, and curriculum requirements.
• Collaborate with colleagues to plan and implement curriculum, develop assessments, and share expertise.
• Ensure the classroom is equipped with necessary materials, equipment, and resources to support learning and play.
• Manage classroom routines, transitions, and activities to promote a smooth and efficient learning environment.
• Plan and implement activities that promote physical activity, health, and well-being.
• Develop and maintain accurate and complete records of children's progress, including progress reports and assessment data.
• Prepare and present reports to administrators, parents, and guardians as required.
• Supervise and support teacher assistants, volunteers, and other support staff to ensure effective team collaboration.
• Take on additional responsibilities as needed, such as planning events, leading parent-teacher organizations, or participating in district committees.

Requirements

• Administer tests to help determine children's developmental levels, needs, and potential.
• Apply multiple teaching methods.
• Assist students with special educational needs.
• Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.
• Arrange childcare or educational settings to ensure physical safety of children.
• Arrange indoor and outdoor space to facilitate creative play, motor-skill activities, and safety.
• Assimilate arriving children to the school environment by greeting them, helping them remove outerwear, and selecting activities of interest to them.
• Attend staff meetings and serve on committees as required.
• Assist students with special educational needs.
• Administer tests to assess educational needs or progress.
• Collaborate with other teaching professionals to develop educational programs.
• Develop strategies or programs for students with special needs.
• Develop instructional objectives.
• Display student work.
• Distribute instructional or library materials.
• Discuss problems or issues with supervisors.
• Discuss student progress with parents or guardians.
• Evaluate student work.
• Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students.
• Enforce rules or policies governing student behavior.
• Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order.
• Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to children.
• Identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists.
• Keep the classroom organized and tidy, including the storage of materials and equipment.
• Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.
• Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and needs, determine their priorities for their children, and suggest ways that they can promote learning and development.
• Monitor student behavior, social development, or health.
• Monitor student performance.
• Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, and field trips.
• Organize and label materials and display students' work in a manner appropriate for their ages and perceptual skills.
• Perform administrative duties, such as hall and cafeteria monitoring and bus loading and unloading.
• Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
• Plan and implement remedial programs for students requiring extra help.
• Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guests, or other experiential activities and guide students in learning from those activities.
• Plan educational activities.
• Plan experiential learning activities.
• Plan and conduct field trips, visits by guests, or other experiential activities and guide students in learning from those activities.
• Prepare and implement remedial programs for students requiring extra help.
• Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
• Prepare and present reports to administrators, parents, and guardians as required.
• Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration.
• Read books to entire classes or to small groups.
• Read to students.
• Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.
• Set up classroom materials or equipment.
• Supervise, evaluate, and plan assignments for teacher assistants and volunteers.
• Supervise school or student activities.
• Supervise and support teacher assistants, volunteers, and other support staff to ensure effective team collaboration.
• Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.
• Teach life skills.
• Teach proper eating habits and personal hygiene.
• Provide disabled students with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.
• Provide for basic needs of children.
• Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.

Nice To Haves

• Email software
• Photocopying equipment
• Sand tables
• Water tables
• Play structures
• Educational board games
• Toy block sets
• Children's educational software
• Compact digital cameras
• Desktop computers
• Educational puzzles
• Pegboards
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Word
• Compact disk CD players
• Data entry software
• Emergency first aid kits
• Personal computers
• Microsoft Excel
• Educational toys