Employment Type
Full-time
Job Location
2779 Route 11 North, Lafayette, New York, 13405
Base Salary
$27.27-$30.60 Per hour
Date posted
October 25, 2024
Position title
Head Start Teacher - Lafayette

LaFayette Head Start
2779 Route 11 North, LaFayette, NY 13405

Description

Promote the social, emotional, physical and cognitive development of up to 17 three- and four-year-old children enrolled in a Head Start classroom, leading a team including a teacher assistant and a teacher aide. Provide and maintain a safe environment for the children and ensure that they are appropriately supervised at all times.

Qualifications
  • Associates Degree in Early Childhood Education, or in a related field with 18 credit hours in early childhood education.
  • One year of experience teaching pre-school age children.
  • Basic computer skills.
  • Ability to work with and interact with children and adults.
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills, and ability to work in a team environment.
  • Ability to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
Responsibilities

1. Ensure that all children assigned to class are supervised at all times. Perform regular counts of children assigned to ensure that all are accounted for.

2. Establish and maintain a safe, healthy, learning environment.

3. Advance physical and intellectual competence to promote higher-level thinking skills.

4. Support social and emotional development through attachment, initiative, and self-regulation and provide positive guidance.

5. Establish positive and productive relationships with families of enrolled children.

6. Responsible for planning, record keeping, observations, and individualization.

7. Maintain confidentiality of all family and child records and all matters relating to families.

EOE/AA/MFDV

Contacts

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