Preschool Teacher II- Grandview EHS

To apply via text, text the word "EHSCenterGrandview" to 213-513-7223

Position Compensation: $25.0007/hr- $25.0007/hr plus excellent benefits.

Pace offers a Total Rewards Package to its employees:

• 401k

• Vacation

• Sick pay

• 14 Paid Holidays

• Pet Insurance

• FSA - Flexible Spending Accounts and Dependent Care

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Affordable Medical, Dental, and Vision packages extended to your family as well.

• Supplemental Insurance Plans

• Opportunity to promote within, just to name a few.

JOB PURPOSE:

Under general supervision of Regional Site Director and EHS Manager of Education, delivers high quality Early Childhood Development services to the infants and toddlers enrolled in center programs, including educational, social, physical, nutritional, and psychological development of children under their care. Communicates with parents on their childs individual progress and maintains records of attendance and educational achievement. Plans lessons, serves meals, and ensures a healthy and safe learning environment for children.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

Responsible for the care and supervision of all enrolled PACE Education Division center-based children, planning and implementing classroom lessons, conducting meetings and conferences with parents, coordinating activities and events for children and parents, interacting with the public and providing customer service by phone, email and in person, and preparing correspondence, reports, records, and other paperwork required by the early childhood education program.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES OF THE POSITION INCLUDE:

• Supervise children up to 7 hours per day.

• Ensures child/adult ratio is met and maintained.

• Conduct safety checks and maintain a safe, clean, care-giving environment, practices good personal hygiene and handwashing, and assures the well-being and safety of all the children in the environment and sanitize all areas of the classroom, including food preparation and eating area

• Respond quickly to childrens different personal needs (verbal and non-verbal cues), temperament styles, abilities, and cultures.

• Implements and documents individualized feeding plans for infants and toddlers, and respect individual preferences and eating style.

• Tend to infants and toddlers personal hygiene needs, during routines such as diaper changing, cleaning, feeding, and changing soiled or wet clothes.

• Prepares and/or serves meals and snacks; holding infants, sitting with toddlers to encourage social interaction, good nutrition, and performs housekeeping tasks.

• Maintains a clean, safe and sanitized environment (inclusive of sanitizing materials and dishwashing as needed).

• Supervise children during nap time.

• Develop and utilize integrated curriculum plans, which reflect mandated elements and components, parental and cultural influences, and promote the social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development of Early Head Start children.

• Work with parents to develop individual lesson plans, goals, and objectives for each childs development in the domains required by the Head Start Performance Standards.

• Organizes each days activities to provide children with a variety of experiences.

• Schedule, support, and follow through with the developmental screening and ongoing assessment of infants and toddlers motor, language, social, cognitive, perceptual, and emotional skills (including but not limited to DRDP-2015 IT, ASQ-3, ASQ: SE-2, etc.).

• Participate and assist in implementation of the Individual Family Service Plan. Coordinate services between families and other community agencies.

• Ensures that education timelines are met within their required calendar day (i.e. 30-45-60-90 timelines etc.).

• Prepare infant/toddler learning environment for children to learn through active exploration and interaction with adult caregivers and adapt activities for infants and toddlers with special needs.

• Maintain an open, friendly, and cooperative relationship with each childs family; encourage parental involvement in the program; promote parent-child bonding and nurturing parent-child relationships.

• Promote feelings of security and trust in infants and toddlers by conveying warmth, supportiveness, and comfort; establish strong and caring relationships with children.

• Conduct home visits and parent conferences for the purpose of assessment and support, and to share information on classroom progress and educational strategies at school and home.

• Develop individual transition plans with families, agency staff and any pertinent community agencies.

• Attend and participate in staff meetings and related activities; attend workshops, conferences, in-service training, and classes to increase professional knowledge; serve on committees as assigned.

• Maintains records of enrollment, attendance, and other required paperwork, both manually and digitally.

• Prepares attendance records, first aid/injury reports, food service records, meal participation records, family contact records, memos, correspondence, and other job-related documents.

• Accurately completes all assigned paperwork and documentation, on a timely basis, according to agency policies and procedures.

• Work effectively with other team members

• Cooperates with Site Lead Teacher, Regional Site Director and Service Area Managers in planning, supervision, and implementation of overall program