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US
Company size
11-50 employees
Job sector
Education & Training
occupation category
Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education
Job type
Contract
Work environment
In person
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- Use appropriate technology with facility to support communication with colleagues and families, as appropriate
- Recognizes when a child is ready to interact or communicate and uses opportunity to engage with child
- Ensures that a multicultural thrust is evident in all aspects of the curriculum
- Confers with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula
- Ensures whole group times, when offered, are developmentally appropriate
- Demonstrates awareness of basic daily nutritional guidelines
- Plans and conducts activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate
- Identify the basic elements of professional guidelines such as national, state, or local standards and regulations and position statements from professional associations
- Implements sanitary toileting procedures
- Guides the development of children's fine and gross motor skills
- Administers standardized ability and achievement tests and interpret results to determine children's developmental levels and needs
- Meets federal, state and program documentation requirements by collecting and organizing accurate, objective, and complete information about each child, such as collecting samples of the child’s work, recording anecdotal notes, and keeping accurate records
- Interacts with children, listening and responding appropriately
- Learns about new laws and regulations affecting child care, children, and families
- Ensures that children are attended by authorized adults at all times
- Assists with public awareness activities to inform the community about early care and education services
- Models, communicates and provides activities that teach the importance of good health to children and families
- Adapts teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests
- Plans for classroom centers including: Blocks, Housekeeping, Table Toys, Art, Sand & Water, Language & Listening, Music & Movement, Cooking, and Outside Play
- Introduces children to more advanced vocabulary
- Makes sure that environment is kept clean and hazard free
- Establishes cooperative interpersonal relationships with co-workers, colleagues, volunteers and supervisors
- Teaches proper eating habits and personal hygiene
- Establishes and enforces rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order
- Provides a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play
- Establishes clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicates those objectives to children
- Administers tests to help determine children's developmental levels, needs, and potential
- Develops reciprocal, culturally responsive relationships with families and communities
- Models appropriate social interactions
- Attends professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence
- Observes, documents, and assesses children’s learning and development using guidelines established by the profession
- Protects the confidentiality of information about children, their families and the child care program
- Maintains a consistent schedule that does not sacrifice flexibility when needed, and routines that enable children to predict events and develop a basic sense of trust
- Selects, stores, orders, issues, and inventories classroom equipment, materials, and supplies
- Encourages children's social interactions
- Encourages creative self -expression in children's activities
- Identifies children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists
- Expands and enriches children’s play by adding new materials, equipment, and props to each interest area regularly
- Confers with parents or guardians, teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems
- Instructs and monitors students in the use and care of equipment and materials to prevent injuries and damage
- Ensures that toileting is developmentally appropriate and a positive experience for children
- Facilitates appropriate mealtime experiences
- Adheres to current local child care regulations and program policies
- Prepares students for later grades by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks
- Ensures that children wash hands properly, with assistance when needed
- Prepares, administers, and grades tests and assignments to evaluate children's progress
- Arranges indoor and outdoor space to facilitate creative play, motor-skill activities, and safety
- Deals with challenging behaviors in a consistent and calm manner
- Recommends activities families can do at home that support their child's development
- Organizes and labels materials and displays children's work in a manner appropriate for their sizes and perceptual skills
- Maintains open communications with families
- Plans and supervises class projects, field trips, visits by guest speakers or other experiential activities, and guide students in learning from those activities
- Prepares for assigned classes and shows written evidence of preparation upon request of immediate supervisors
- Connects concepts to children's previous experiences
- Knows the social services, health, and education resources of the community, engaging them when appropriate
- Ensures that art materials are safe, non-toxic and appropriate to the age of the children
- Assesses each child’s learning needs through screening, observation, ongoing assessment and the development of individual learning plans
- Uses a curriculum framework and curriculum tools that provide opportunities for each child to meet learning expectations that prepare children for success in school
- Identify and follow relevant laws such as reporting child abuse and neglect, health and safety practices, and the rights of children with developmental delays and disabilities
- Supports children's repetition of the familiar
- Identify types of community resources that can support young children’s learning and development and to support families
- Maintains accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations
- Uses effective classroom management techniques
- Responds to children when crying or visibly distressed
- Helps children learn to articulate their emotions and practice how to respond in challenging situations
- Includes pictures and materials that reflect diversity (ethnic, gender, ability, age)
- Teaches children how to appropriately use art and music materials
- Offers parent conferences with each child’s parent(s) to partner in learning goals, develop coordinated learning support strategies and involve the parent(s) in the child’s preschool experience
- Partner with colleagues to help assist families in finding needed community resources
- Plans regular daily activities that include indoor and outdoor activities
- Works closely with every family
- Use teaching practices with young children that are appropriate to their level of development, their individual characteristics, and the sociocultural context in which they live
- Uses materials that demonstrate acceptance of all children’s gender, family, race, language, culture, ethnic, socio-economic and special needs
- Prepares objectives and outlines for courses of study, following curriculum guidelines or requirements of states and schools
- Serves meals and snacks in accordance with nutritional guidelines
- Enforces administration rules and policies governing students
- Familiarizes self with all evacuation and emergency procedures
- Maintains a physically and emotionally safe environment and creates learning spaces with focus on safety, health, routines and play/ exploration
- Observes and records information about children's behaviors and learning
- Observes and monitors children’s developmental milestones
- Organizes and leads activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, and storytelling
- Reads to children in a developmentally appropriate manner
- Incorporates parenting training and parent leadership in program activities
- Discusses diversity comfortably when interacting with children
- Collaborates with other teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of preschool programs
- Reads, sings and talks to children using varying levels of voice and inflection
- Adheres to professional mandated reporting requirements related to abuse and neglect
- Organizes the environment into clearly defined areas and displays props, accessories, and materials where they are to be used in ways that invites children’s involvement
- Promotes children's language development through her/his verbal and non-verbal communication
- Facilitates children's thinking and creative problem-solving skills
- Meets with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and to determine priorities for their children and their resource needs
- Observes and evaluates children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health
- Takes opportunities for professional and personal development by reflecting, joining professional organizations and attending meetings, and attending training courses and conferences
- Uses appropriate techniques to address negative behaviors
- Encourages children's self-help/self-regulation skills while being respectful of family preferences and cultural differences
- Provides space balanced between active and quiet areas, individual and group, and indoor and outdoor activities
- Supports and encourages children’s participation in a variety of activities
- Sends newsletters and notes home on a regular basis
