What are the responsibilities and job description for the Preschool Lead Teacher position at Water for Ishmael?
Summary
Job Description
We are seeking a dedicated Preschool Lead Teacher to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for early childhood education and creating a nurturing environment for young learners. This position offers the opportunity to make a positive impact on children's lives through engaging educational activities. Instruct preschool-aged children in activities designed to promote social, physical, and intellectual growth needed for primary school in a small diverse preschool and child care program that is culturally grounded in bilingual learning.
Duties
Water for Ishmael’s mission is to partner with thelocal church tobuilda welcoming community forToledo area internationals,
to share the hopeand love of Jesus Christ, and to empowerinternationals with skills to become successful.
Job Description
We are seeking a dedicated Preschool Lead Teacher to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for early childhood education and creating a nurturing environment for young learners. This position offers the opportunity to make a positive impact on children's lives through engaging educational activities. Instruct preschool-aged children in activities designed to promote social, physical, and intellectual growth needed for primary school in a small diverse preschool and child care program that is culturally grounded in bilingual learning.
Duties
- Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.
- Manage classroom behavior and encourage positive interactions among students
- Utilize effective behavior management techniques to support a positive learning environment
- Teach developmentally appropriate skills, personal hygiene, and social skills.
- Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for mental and social health.
- Plan and implement positive learning experiences using Creative Curriculum that promote growth and learning in a bilingual setting
- Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
- Assess and document all students growth and learning in all areas of the early learning standards using ELA and Teaching Strategies Gold
- Identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists.
- Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and needs, determine their priorities for their children, and suggest ways that they can promote learning and development.
- Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students.
- Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
- Teach proper eating habits and personal hygiene.
- Serve meals and snacks in accordance with nutritional guidelines.
- Assimilate arriving children to the school environment by greeting them, helping them remove outerwear, and selecting activities of interest to them.
- Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
- Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to children.
- Demonstrate activities to children.
- Arrange indoor and outdoor space to facilitate creative play, motor-skill activities, and safety.
- Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
- Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration.
- Organize and label materials and display students' work in a manner appropriate for their ages and perceptual skills.
- Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.
- Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
- Supervise, evaluate, and plan assignments for teacher assistants and volunteers.
- Collaborate with other teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of preschool programs.
- Attend staff meetings and serve on committees as required.
- Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.
- Provide disabled students with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.
- Set up classroom materials or equipment.
- Provide for basic needs of children.
- Teach life skills.
- Establish rules or policies governing student behavior.
- Read to students.
- Plan educational activities.
- Monitor student performance.
- Monitor student behavior, social development, or health.
- Evaluate student work.
- Monitor student behavior, social development, or health.
- Discuss problems or issues with supervisors.
- Discuss student progress with parents or guardians.
- Enforce rules or policies governing student behavior in correlation to the Parent Handbook
- Technology skills for assessment and documentation
- Care and concern for welcoming Internationals in community desired
- Infant and Child CPR and First Aid certification
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- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Paid lunch breaks
- Dental benefit
- Vision benefit
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Professional Development Training
- Child Care with zero tuition
- Fridays off
Water for Ishmael’s mission is to partner with thelocal church tobuilda welcoming community forToledo area internationals,
to share the hopeand love of Jesus Christ, and to empowerinternationals with skills to become successful.
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