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Pool Position - Pre-School Teacher Substitute
Job Description
Under general supervision, plans, implements and evaluates age appropriate curriculum for preschool age children; performs a variety of care and supervision duties with children, assists in maintaining a safe and healthy environment, maintains documentation related to State requirements and perform related duties as assigned.
You will only be notified of your status if a need to fill this temporary position arises.
The following duties are typical of those performed by employees in this job title; however, employees may perform other related duties, and not all duties listed are necessarily performed by each employee in the job title.
- Teaches children social and language skills, problem-solving skills, emerging literacy, math and science skills through daily interaction and example using an emergent curriculum teaching philosophy
- Observes, documents and evaluates children’s interests and progress to provide meaningful curriculum to extend children’s development
- Observes, and keeps anecdotal records of children’s progress in social-emotional, language, motor and cognitive development
- Participates in the planning of curriculum and classroom environmental changes with Director and other staff
- Conducts or participates in a variety of meetings such as staff meetings, curriculum meetings and meeting with parents to discuss assessments and evaluations of the child; updating parents regularly on child problems, progress, abilities, health and attitude
- Performs various child care needs: Assists children with personal needs (such as using toilet, changing diapers, clothes, hand washing); teaches children good hygiene habits; comforts children; resolves conflicts while teaching problem solving skills; performs minor first aid and dispenses prescription medicines when necessary
- Monitors and maintains a safe and clean environment in the classroom and outdoors at all times; monitors and ensures compliance to state and federal regulations; cleans up spills and accidents along with daily cleaning routines; sorts and stores toys and equipment
- Sets up, organizes and displays classroom to be engaging and self-sustaining for children to use; posts curriculum documentation for both children and parent viewing
- Advises, guides and corrects the work of student workers
- Maintains current first aid and CPR training
Knowledge of:
- Cognitive, motor, emotional and social developmental levels of pre-school age children
- Effective age-appropriate pre-school learning activities
- Principles and methods of control, discipline and comforting of pre-school age children
- Assessment testing and anecdotal note keeping for monitoring child progress and development
Skill in:
- Researching, planning, and implementing age-appropriate learning activities within planned curriculum
- Comforting, providing personal care to, controlling and disciplining pre-school age children
- Conducting assessments and keeping anecdotal records of child progress and development
- Written and oral communications
- Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of the work
Physical Characteristics: The physical abilities involved in the performance of essential duties with or without reasonable accommodations are:
- Speech to instruct, direct and/or communicate with children, staff and parents
- Hearing to monitor center activities and for normal communication
- Vision to read text and computer screens, and monitor and observe operations and behavior
- Walking standing, stooping, kneeling and climbing to supervise, interact with, instruct, and lead activities for children
- Lifting up to 40 pounds to comfort and control children
- Running to control and retrieve children
- Manual dexterity to demonstrate objective manipulation and lead other instruction involving hand skills
- Working in exposure to bodily fluids and bacterial contamination
- Work is performed indoors and outdoors in a child development center and on field trips.
- 24 units in ECE including the core courses and;
- 16 General Education units and;
- 175 days of 3 + hours per day within the last 4 years
- OR AA in ECE or related field with 3 units supervised field experience in an ECE setting
- An Associate of Arts degree in child development or early childhood education
- One year of experience as an aid or equivalent capacity working with young children
- Community college experience
- Demonstrated sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students
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