Location
Racine, WI | United States
Job description
Summary
Guide children in activities designed to promote social, physical, and intellectual growth needed for child development center and further learning.
Duties - Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.
- Attend to children's basic needs by feeding them, dressing them, and changing their diapers.
- Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.
- Guide behavior in developmental appropriate ways.
- Read books to entire classes and individual children.
- Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development, such as games, art, music, and stories.
- Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
- Identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems and discuss them with supervisors, and parents or guardians.
- 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.
- Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
- Teach proper eating habits and personal hygiene.
- Serve meals and snacks in accordance with nutritional guidelines.
- Assimilate arriving children to the school environment by greeting them, helping them remove outerwear, and selecting activities of interest to them.
- Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
- Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to children.
- Demonstrate activities to children.
- Arrange indoor and outdoor space to facilitate creative play, motor-skill activities, and safety.
- Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by state licensing procedures and National Accreditation Commission.
- Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration.
- Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
- Organize and label materials and display students' work in a manner appropriate for their ages and perceptual skills.
- Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.
- Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
- Attend staff meetings as required.
Requirements - Set up classroom materials or equipment.
- Provide for basic needs of children.
- Teach life skills.
- Guide student behavior.
- Read to students.
- Plan educational activities.
- Assess student behavior, social development, or health.
- Discuss problems or issues with supervisors.
- Discuss student progress with parents or guardians.
- Enforce rules or policies governing student behavior.
- Modify teaching methods or materials to accommodate student needs.
- Develop instructional objectives.
- Apply multiple teaching methods.
- Arrange childcare or educational settings to ensure physical safety of children.
- Maintain student records.
- Prepare reports detailing student activities or performance.
- Display student work.
- Attend training sessions or professional meetings to develop or maintain professional knowledge.
Nice To Haves - Children's educational software
- Compact digital cameras
- Compact disk CD players
- laptop computers
- Educational board games
- Educational puzzles
- Educational toys
- Email software
- Emergency first aid kits
- Pegboards
- Photocopying equipment
- Play structures
- Sand tables
- Toy block sets
- Water tables
Benefits - IRA match
- Paid Time Off
- Bonuses each month
- Aflac
- Child care discounts
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