Child Care Teacher

Job Purpose:Nurtures children by developing and providing educational programs; keeping parents informed.Duties: Stimulates emotional, intellectual, and social growth of children by developing and directing educational programs and activities tailored to assigned class.

Provides safe environment by maintaining orderly, clean, and appealing facilities; removing known safety hazards. Encourages children's participation by providing interactive activities. Informs staff and parents of curriculum by preparing and submitting lesson plans; posting schedules and curriculum outlines.

Keeps parents informed by posting parent information in the classroom; maintaining and sharing records of child's progress, attendance, and behavior. Encourages development of children's self-control by utilizing classroom management and modeling techniques. Maintains center's professional status by supervising, training, and evaluating staff and/or field experience students.

Encourages consistency of service by maintaining communications with parents and staff. Protects families by keeping personal information confidential. Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies. Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.Skills/Qualifications:Safety Management, Creativity, Teaching, Presentation Skills, Flexibility, Motivating Others, Listening, Verbal Communication, Resolving Conflict, Self-Motivated, Deals with Uncertainty