We invite you to join our team as an Early Head Start Teacher in Anne Arundel County, MD. The role involves managing an Early Head Start classroom and ensuring the health, welfare, and safety of children enrolled. The ideal candidate will have experience in early childhood education and hold relevant certifications.
Requirements
- Manage an Early Head Start classroom
- Ensure health, welfare, and safety of children
- Supervise children at all times
- Promote feelings of security and trust in infants/toddlers
- Write and implement individualized daily lesson plans
- Conduct individual observations, assessments, and developmentally appropriate activities
- Informs and includes all classroom staff, parents and volunteers in daily lesson plans and activities
- Plans and manages classroom structure
- Demonstrates sensitivity, cultural respect, acceptance, and patience
- Conducts developmental screenings of infants/toddlers
- Ensures continuity of care
- Maintains classroom education folders and portfolio-assessment binders
- Assures completion of daily and monthly attendance records
- Prepares for and conducts at least two home visits and two parent-teacher conferences annually
- Participates in monthly meetings for parents and recruits their input into planning for classroom activities
- Ensures that parents receive developmentally appropriate home learning activities on a weekly basis
- Recruits, trains and utilizes parent volunteers in the classroom
- Oversees classroom staff, including advising on classroom issues
- Monitors classroom supplies and submits orders to the Education Departments when needed
- Maintains a neat, appealing, clean classroom and center
- Attends and actively participates in Early Head Start, Head Start and Curriculum training
- Models professional behavior and adherence to Y of Central Maryland Baltimore County Head Start policies and procedures
- Models positive interactions with infants and toddlers to promote parent-child bonding and nurturing parent-child relationships
- Observes infants and toddlers to detect signs of illness, injury, abuse, neglect, emotional disturbance, or other special needs, and reports these signs immediately to the Zone Manager
- Work with EHS and Head Start Managers to provide developmentally appropriate Early Intervention services
- Attend case management meetings, parent conferences, case reviews, IEP/IFSP meetings, transition meetings, staff meetings, parent meetings, in-service and pre-service meetings, and other meetings as directed
- Report to work at scheduled times and maintain good attendance
- Takes advantage of training opportunities to continue professional growth
- May act as point of contact between classroom and Zone Manager
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
