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Early Head Start Teacher

1 month ago

DeLand, United States Mid Florida Community Services, Inc Full time

June 6, 2024

***: Responsible for day-to-day operation and management of the classroom. Responsible for guiding and directing the learning experiences for infants, toddlers and two years-old by providing a developmentally appropriate learning environment.

**Wage**: $18.25 - $20.75/hr.

**Hours**:Monday - Friday 7:30am - 3:30pm

**Benefits**:Teacher Break Pay, Sick, PTO, Employer paid health benefits, 8% non-matching retirement, 14 company paid holidays, Basic $30,000 Life Insurance Policy, and Long Term Disability (LTD).

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

- Maintains an open, friendly, and cooperative relationship with each child and family.
- Encourages each child's family to be actively involved in the Early Head Start program.
- Promotes/supports parent-child bonding and nurturing parent-child relationships.
- Promotes/supports feelings of security and trust in infants, toddlers, and two year-olds.
- Greets infants, toddlers, and two year-olds and their parents/caregivers warmly and with enthusiasm each morning.
- Assures that: each infant, toddler, and two year-old is warmly greeted upon arrival; each infant is held; and each child is transitioned to become a part of the learning environment.
- Talks, sings, and reads to infants, toddlers, and two year-olds frequently throughout the day.
- Responds quickly, in a soothing and tender manner to infants, toddlers and two years -old cries or calls of distress.
- Responds consistently to infants/toddler’s needs for food and comfort.
- Implements individualized feeding plans for infants, sit with toddlers and two-year-olds, and shares family-style meal; models manners and good nutrition.
- Tends to children's personal hygiene needs, remaining especially attentive to but not limited to: routines such as diaper changing, cleaning, feeding, and changing soiled or wet clothes.
- Respects children’s curiosity about each other; ensures that children treat each other gently.
- Organizes each day's activities to provide children with a variety of individualized experiences and opportunities that allow them to develop curiosity, initiative, problem-solving skills, and creativity, as well as a sense of security and a feeling of belonging to the group.
- Conducts developmental screenings and ongoing assessments of infant, toddler, and two year
- olds to determine motor, language, social, cognitive perceptual and emotional skills.
- Completes timely, neat, accurate documentation of screenings, assessments, individualized plans, attendance, daily health checklist, feedings, daily activity logs for parents/caregivers, home visits,inventories, and other documentation as may be deemed necessary for providing quality services.
- Completes menu worksheet for assigned infants, toddlers, and two-year-olds.
- Submits weekly, written developmental plans to the CDS for each child, according to growth and needs, with input from parents/caregivers.
- Maintains a safe, clean, care-giving environment, practices good personal hygiene and hand washing, and assures the wellbeing and safety of all of the children in that environment.
- Maintains a positive, calm attitude and a pleasant, soothing voice, and models this attitude and voice for parents and others working or volunteering in the program.
- Maintains a cooperative attitude of working together with other Infant, Toddler, and Two Year
- Old teachers and supervisors, parents and volunteers in planning and implementing activities for the program/classroom.
- Utilizes developmentally appropriate discipline techniques.
- Protects all children from physical punishment or verbal abuse by anyone in any program activity, and immediately reports any such incident to the center director or person in charge.
- Provides for the physical safety of each child from arrival time until departure time.
- Assists the family advocate in teaching and modeling developmentally appropriate practices for parents/caregivers in caring for their young children.
- Observes children to detect signs of illness, injury, abuse, neglect, emotional disturbance, or other special needs, and reports these signs immediately to the CDS or person in charge.
- Plans activities for children with special needs, with training and technical assistance from disabilities and mental health specialists; implements individual education plans, behavior management plans, and/or individualized services or activities as outlined for these children.
- Attends all training opportunities and staff meetings as provided and scheduled.
- Performs any other tasks deemed necessary by supervisors.
- Guides children in developing basic concepts as prescribed in the education, nutrition, health, dental and mental health plans
- Develops Education Child Portfolio for each infant, toddler, and two year-old in the classroom with required and current documentation and ensures accuracy and completion.
- Ensures referral is completed and submitted to the appropriate service area for any infant, toddler, a

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