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Job Details

Job Location
AVANCE Starr Zapata - RIO GRANDE CITY, TX

Position Type
Full Time

Education Level
2 Year Degree

Job Shift
Day

Job Category
Education

Description

Mission Statement:

AVANCE creates pathways to economic mobility for predominately Latino families through high quality, culturally responsive, two-generation programming that ensures school-readiness for young children and opportunities for parents to build social and economic capital. Our targeted program services reflect the cultural, racial/ethnic, and linguistic background of our families and provide specific strategies based on the unique needs of these families and children, ensuring that racial equity is embedded in our systemic approach.

Job Overview

The main responsibilities of the Head Start Director teacher is responsible for the daily, on-site operations of the Head Start Classroom(s) in compliance with Head Start Performance Standards, Child Care Regulation Standards, state, and local ISD regulations, and AVANCE policies and procedures.

Job Responsibilities

The Head Start Director Teacher works collaboratively with the Early Learning Leads and Monitoring and Compliance Assistant in the following key tasks:
  • Ensure all center staff comply with relevant standards, policies and procedures.
  • Ensure employee licensing folders are up to date and accurate.
  • Ensure all health and safety checklists are completed in the determined timeframe
  • Ensures that facilities, materials, and equipment are safe, appropriate, and conducive to learning and reflective of the different ages and stages of development of each child, including children with disabilities.
CLASS™ teacher-child interactions:
  • Provide emotional support through establishing a positive climate, being aware of and responsive to children, and encouraging child expression and autonomy.
  • Use strategies for behavior management, such as clear behavior expectations, being proactive and redirecting misbehavior.
  • Foster classroom productivity and maximize learning time, while engaging children with a variety of modalities and materials.
  • Provide instructional support through concept development, fostering children's analysis and reasoning, engaging in feedback loops, and modeling and supporting high-quality language.
Learning environment:
  • Ensure classroom arrangement, materials and displays are organized and conducive to children's learning and reflective of the different ages and stages of development of each child, including children with disabilities.
Curriculum:
  • Implement AVANCE's chosen curriculum with fidelity, being aware of the big ideas while also following all assigned guidance and resources.
  • Prepare or modify weekly lesson plans and prepare to implement small-group activities, read-aloud, circle time, and other curriculum components.
  • Provide children with a consistent classroom routine and facilitate all parts of the routine to support child learning.
  • Interact with children intentionally throughout the day to provide differentiated support.
Child assessment:
  • Collect documentation of children through ongoing observation, embedded and direct assessment activities.
  • Complete quarterly assessment checkpoints, reliably, for each child.
  • Analyze child assessment data and use it to plan and individualize.
Meeting all children's needs:
  • Complete developmental and social-emotional screenings on all children within prescribed time frames.
  • Complete theme based Individualized Learning Plans to identify specific goals and implement developmentally appropriate strategies for each child in class.
  • Integrate Individual Education Plans (IEPs) or referral action plans for children with diagnosed or suspected special needs.
  • Implement PBS practices and Program Wide Expectations
Working with families:
  • Establish positive and productive relationships with families through building rapport and trust.
  • Schedule and complete two home visits and two parent-teacher conferences each year.
  • Encourage and engage family members to serve as classroom volunteers.
  • Collaborate with family services staff to support families in implementing family life practices, extending learning into the home, and meeting expectations for attendance
  • Follow all guidance and expectations to support implementation of AVANCE's Parent-Child Education Program
Professional growth and collaboration:
  • Participate in ongoing reflective coaching and self-assessment.
  • Collaborate with the ISD administration, and all other AVANCE staff.
  • Share pertinent information with family services, disabilities/mental health or health/nutrition staff, as needed, to meet the needs of individual children and families. Participate in case conferences as appropriate.
Program Compliance
  • Conducts monthly facilities health and safety monitoring to assure timely communication with Operations team regarding outstanding health and safety concerns.
  • Ensures that all Centers maintain up to date licensing in all required areas and that proper documentation/follow up is completed after licensing visits (biannual employee licensing file audits)
  • Analyzes and mitigates risk to the region (health and safety, licensing issues) by proactively monitoring; developing an action plan and coordinating with ELL/CCP providers and FS lead to execute the plan.
  • Works in coordination with HQ and local leadership to carry out other monitoring and quality improvement activities.
  • Communicates AVANCE, Head Start, and/or licensing policies and procedures as necessary at center level to families and staff.
In addition, the teacher will:
  • Know and understand AVANCE's School Readiness Goals and strive to help all children achieve them.
  • Provide classroom experiences that are developmentally, linguistically, culturally and age-appropriate for the children served.
  • Establish and maintain a safe, healthy learning environment, including full supervision of children at all times, in accordance with Head Start and childcare licensing requirements.
  • Follow all health and hygiene practices, including handwashing, sanitizing, and universal precautions.
  • Supervise mealtimes and "family style dining" with children.
  • Supervise all classroom field trips and outdoor activities.
  • Maintain required documentation of activities, including child and family information, assessment data, volunteer logs, etc.
  • Participates in assigned meetings, events and training as required.
  • Comply with all ISD safety measures.
Communication and Service Coordination
  • Participate in team and 1-1 meetings, regularly scheduled and as needed, to ensure coordination of services across the Head Start program.
  • Actively participate in the Head Start community, including staff meetings, mandated training, committee meetings, and other program-wide functions as needed, including some evening activities.
Record Keeping and Reporting
  • Support documentation of monitoring, coaching and training activities, adhering to AVANCE's existing systems (CAFCP, Shine Insight, Paycom, etc.) whenever applicable.
  • Complete monthly reports on area activities and progress toward goals with recommended modifications to plans, submit to Zone Director as scheduled.
Human Resources
  • Familiar with the personnel policies and procedures.
  • Participates in assigned meetings, events and training as required.
Non-essential Duties
  • Performs other duties as assigned.
AVANCE Core Competencies
  • Accountability
  • The AVANCE Way
  • Demonstrates Ability to Learn
  • Fosters Innovation
  • Takes Initiative
  • Recovers from Setbacks
Qualifications

Education

Required:
  • Associate/Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education - OR - Associate/Bachelor's degree in related field with at least six college courses in Early Childhood Education plus experience teaching preschool aged children OR - state awarded preschool teacher certification with experience teaching preschool aged children.
License/Certifications

Required:
  • Certification in CPR and First Aid
Work Experience
  • At least 1 year of experience in leadership and management or completion of management training course
Additional Skills
  • Ability to multitask, work independently, efficiently organize and communicate effectively with off-site supervisors.
  • Ability to communicate effectively in written or verbal format to groups of all sizes and individuals
  • Ability to interact effectively with people from diverse backgrounds.
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Demonstrated computer literacy skills, using MS Office applications and other basic data systems including internet navigation.
  • Must be honest, dependable and able to meet deadlines.
  • Self-motivated and able to work independently.
Other Requirements
  • Pass physical examination, background check, and fingerprinting screen
  • Current driver's license, reliable transportation and ability to travel out of state on occasion
Equipment

Use of computer, computer software programs and peripherals, resource materials and equipment, copier, fax, and other equipment applicable to the position.

Working Conditions
  • Work is generally performed in a classroom environment.
  • Noise level in the work environment is moderate to occasionally loud (examples: business office with computers and printers, light to moderate traffic, human voices).
  • Standard office equipment generally used includes:
  • Telephone
  • Personal Computer (monitor, keyboard, and mouse) or Tablet
  • Printer/Photocopy Machine
  • Calculator
  • Fax Machine
  • May be required to operate a motor vehicle during the course of duties.

Mental and Physical Demands

Maintain emotional control under stress; work with interruptions and deadlines; walking, standing, stooping, bending, pulling and pushing, use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; occasional: lifting/carrying, pulling/pushing 10-30 pounds.Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Environmental Factors

Occasional exposure to: biological hazards (communicable diseases, bacteria, insects, mold, fungi, etc.). Occasional expose to weather related conditions when working in outside environment/neighborhoods and events.