CLASSROOM TEACHER SUBSTITUTE

ALLEGHENY LUTHERAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES INCBedford, PA
35d

About The Position

CLASSROOM TEACHER SUBSTITUTE POSITIONS AVAILABLE FOR THE 2025-2026 SCHOOL YEAR HEAD START/EARLY HEAD START at BEDFORD and FULTON COUNTIES DAILY SUBSTITUTE WORK AVAILABLE AT $140 PER DAY MONDAY-FRIDAY SCHEDULE The Head Start and Early Head Start programs in Bedford and Fulton counties work in partnership with families to build children’s and parents’ strength, promote self-esteem, and encourage self-sufficiency and lifelong learning. This position will plan, organize, develop and implement a program planning to include individualized activities for each child and family in the home/classroom to ensure that the highest quality services are provided.

Requirements

  • Minimum of an Associate’s degree (Bachelor’s or advanced degree preferred) in early childhood education or related degree with six classes, 2-3 credits each, in child development or early childhood education.
  • Experience working with young children.
  • Must have valid PA. Driver’s license. Act 31 and 34/151 and FBI clearances required.
  • ALL POSITIONS REQUIRE A VALID DRIVER’S LICENSE, ACT 31, 34/151 AND FBI CLEARANCES. An ALSM application, a resume, and transcripts should be sent to: Children’s Services Office of Allegheny Lutheran Social Ministries 231 S. Juliana Street Bedford, PA 15522

Responsibilities

  • Ensures that activities, material, etc., are appropriate to the developmental capabilities of each child.
  • Participates in team meetings and shares relevant information as appropriate.
  • Greets each child and parent in a warm, friendly manner as they arrive at the center or in home.
  • Makes provisions for all children with disabilities so that their special needs are met and their well-being is assured.
  • Utilizes Creative Curriculum and other program resources, ensuring involvement of family members in planning, facilitating, and assessing.
  • Establishes and maintains an atmosphere that is positive and comfortable for each family, and that facilitates growth and competency, both as individuals and as a family unit.
  • Uses appropriate techniques, such as modeling, positive reinforcement, direct instruction, and feedback to facilitate positive growth in the parents and children.
  • Encourages parents to assume an active role in the home visits by modeling and training and then gradually increasing responsibilities in the assessing, planning and implementation of the educational process.
  • Assists parents to develop realistic expectations of their children and provides activities appropriate for their age and developmental level.
  • Helps parents to use home materials and activities as positive learning opportunities for their children.
  • Assists parents to interact with their children in ways which facilitate the development of communication, listening, comprehension, and problem solving skills, as well as mutual trust and esteem.
  • Encourages parents to participate in program activities and trainings for parents.
  • Assists parents in developing clear limit setting techniques such as: positive reinforcement, redirection, problem solving, etc.
  • Offers parents information about community health, human services, and other resources to meet identified goals.
  • Assists families to obtain any necessary social services.
  • Guides parents in utilizing their own knowledge, experience, skills and resources to identify their own goals for attaining or strengthening self-sufficiency.
  • Involves parents in the program encouraging a partnership approach by: Involving parents in planning, implementing and assessing curriculum Involving parents in planning volunteer activities in the classroom.
  • Assists parents in the role as their child’s teacher by instructing, modeling, guiding and encouraging parents to:
  • Provides a learning environment for children that invites exploration, emphasizes communication and problem solving, stimulates curiosity and the development of new ideas, and maximizes success.
  • Provides a variety of appropriate equipment, activities and opportunities to promote the physical development of the children.
  • Provides activities and experiences that develop questioning, probing and problem solving appropriate to the developmental levels and learning styles of children.
  • Provides opportunities for children to understand, acquire and use verbal and non-verbal means of communicating thoughts and feelings.
  • Provides experiences that stimulate children to explore and express their creative abilities.
  • Helps each child to know, accept, and take pride in himself, and to develop a sense of independence.
  • Helps children learn to get along with others and encourage feelings of empathy and mutual respect among children and adults.
  • Provides an environment in which children can learn and practice behaviors which are appropriate and acceptable individually and in a group.
  • Provides a learning environment for children that invites exploration, emphasizes communication and problem solving, stimulates curiosity and the development of new ideas, and maximizes success.
  • Provides a variety of appropriate equipment, activities and opportunities to promote the physical development of the children.
  • Provides activities and experiences that develop questioning, probing and problem solving appropriate to the developmental levels and learning styles of children.
  • Provides opportunities for children to understand, acquire and use verbal and non-verbal means of communicating thoughts and feelings.
  • Provides experiences that stimulate children to explore and express their creative abilities.
  • Helps each child to know, accept, and take pride in himself, and to develop a sense of independence.
  • Helps children learn to get along with others and encourage feelings of empathy and mutual respect among children and adults.
  • Provides an environment in which children can learn and practice behaviors which are appropriate and acceptable individually and in a group.
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