The Preschool Teacher is responsible for planning, monitoring, and coordinating implementation of activities to help children develop emotionally, physically, socially, and cognitively. The teacher encourages active learning through creative curriculum, loving interactions, and exploration in a safe, predictable environment.
Requirements
- Develop creative curriculum lessons to meet and support developmental needs of all children with age-appropriate activities in all developmental areas for both indoor and outdoor environment.
- Maintain a clean, organized, creative, inviting, age-appropriate classroom environment including centers in multiple educational subjects.
- Support the ethical, cultural, and confidentiality of each child and to provide diversity and difference with anti-bias curriculum.
- Approach challenging behavioral and speech concerns in fair, firm, and caring manner.
- Maintain classroom and outdoor in a clean, safe, and orderly manner, adhering to proper health and safety codes under Title 5 & 22 regulations.
- Maintain childrenâs files as specified by the Director and/or Assistant Director and under regulations of funding sources.
- Effectively document classroom daily attendances, child health checks, absence forms, sign in & out sheets, food program and billing forms daily.
- Attend and participate in professional training events throughout the year.
- Fully complete annual mandatory trainings required by CDE, CDSS, CCLD, and The Salvation Army.
- Provide active support of, and participation in all Salvation Army campaigns and initiatives, including attending field trips with students.
- Develop appropriate relationships and maintain appropriate relationship boundaries with other Salvation Army associates, guests, members, volunteers, partners, and vendors.
- Serves as a mandated reporter and reports child abuse matters immediately.
- Report any suspected child abuse matters immediately to your immediate supervisors.
- Be on duty as assigned, always maintaining focus on the children.
- Must always provide âActive Visual Supervisionâ in and out of the classroom.
- For break or lunch, ensure a teacher is in place before leaving the classroom or playground to maintain ratio compliance.
- Maintain confidentiality of family, staff & proprietary information.
- Pleasantly greet children & families upon daily arrival and departure, while maintaining active supervision of children.
- Ability to use excellent judgment relating to sensitive matters towards, children, families, staff, and community.
- Employees may also be requested to perform other reasonable business-related duties by their supervisors or corps officer.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
