Early Childhood Educator

Down East Community Partners is seeking a dedicated and passionate Infant/Toddler Teacher I to join our team of early childhood professionals.

We are looking for a qualified and experienced teacher to provide high-quality early childhood education to preschool children in accordance with agency policies, procedures, and practices. The successful candidate will be responsible for promoting school readiness, parent engagement, and ensuring the health and safety of children in our care.

• Effective Teaching Practice:
  • Implement the High Scope curriculum, utilizing agency resources and feedback from content area specialists.
  • Ensure all classroom practices are developmentally appropriate and meaningful to children's learning.
  • Track and plan classroom experiences using data from COR Advantage, ensuring timely and complete ongoing child assessment.
• Content Area Domains:
  • Provide a welcoming environment for parents at the center, encouraging and fostering parent engagement in children's school readiness.
  • Work with parents to set realistic long- and short-term goals, fostering their growth and financial independence.
  • Partner with the classroom team to ensure recommendations from content area specialists, mental health consultants, and special needs providers are implemented.
• Learning Environments:
  • Ensure constant supervision of children at all times, conducting double verification during transition times.
  • Assist in ensuring all learning areas are present and engaging to children, displaying and rotating materials that encourage independence and reflect children's interests.
  • Responsible for daily visual checks of the classroom and playground environments to detect hazards, remedying or reporting unsafe conditions to the responsible manager immediately.
  • Ensure environments are aesthetically pleasing to children, minimizing the use of adult space in classrooms and maintaining a clean and orderly environment.
• Observation, Analysis, Planning, and Documentation:
  • Consistently and accurately enter data weekly in ChildPlus and COR Advantage software.
  • Assist in completing developmental assessments, including hearing, vision, social-emotional, with parent input within 45 days of a child's enrollment and according to schedule thereafter.
  • Complete documentation on time, recording documentation observing good grammar, clear communication, and objectivity.
• Communication:
  • Complete a minimum of two home visits annually and two parent conferences according to agency policy and procedure.
  • Directly communicate children's individual progress and needs to parents through daily individual contacts, phone calls, notes home, home visits, and parent/teacher conferences.
  • Engage parents in planning and implementing their child's school readiness plans at school and home.
  • Ensure consistent communication among classroom staff, ensuring appropriate planning and follow-up occurs.
  • Maintain confidentiality of families by limiting conversations and information about families with only those who need to know to provide services.
  • Carry out child recruitment and outreach efforts in local communities, ensuring full enrollment.
• Professionalism/Leadership:
  • Responsible for knowledge of and compliance with all agency policies and procedures.
  • Provide active supervision of all substitutes and volunteers assigned to the classroom, in accordance with DCP's supervision standards.
  • Maintain professional boundaries in relationships with families and staff members, distinguishing between other needs and one's own.
  • Serve as a role model for families and other staff by making sound daily decisions and reflecting on and assessing one's own practice, taking advantage of opportunities to improve skills and knowledge.