HS - EHS Teacher
About The Position
Action pact is a community action agency focused on improving lives and communities and supporting opportunities for families. The full-time Early Head Start Teacher provides a safe, nurturing, positive learning environment and plans and implements early childhood development learning experiences in an assigned classroom. The teacher manages the classroom day to day and supervises assigned Teacher Assistants and classroom volunteers. The role includes implementing age-appropriate curriculum, monitoring and assessing children’s development, maintaining classroom and child records, coordinating with parents and other staff, and making required home visits. The teacher also organizes the classroom and its materials, supports family involvement, follows Head Start performance standards and confidentiality procedures, and responds appropriately to emergencies.
Requirements
- A minimum Infant/Toddler Child Development Associate (CDA) credential.
- Valid Georgia driver’s license.
Nice To Haves
- TCC, associate degree, or bachelor’s degree preferred.
Responsibilities
- Prepare daily lesson plans using the assigned curriculum and ensure activities are varied and age appropriate; review plans with the Center Coordinator or Lead Teacher before implementation.
- Implement curriculum that supports children’s physical abilities, social and emotional development, and mental skills.
- Supervise, monitor, and observe children and recommend improvements to individual educational plans.
- Coordinate classroom volunteers and aides and work with staff professionals on parent involvement activities.
- Maintain written records of each child’s health, attendance, problems, and progress.
- Participate in conferences with parents and staff professionals to support coordinated child development.
- Attend required staff meetings, workshops, in-service training, and parent meetings.
- Visit children’s homes at least twice a year and help plan for child development outside the classroom; complete required reports.
- Follow Head Start performance standards and use appropriate teaching practices, materials, and a balance of teacher-directed and child-initiated activities.
- Encourage experimentation, exploration, problem solving, cooperation, socialization, and choice making; ask open-ended questions and listen respectfully.
- Demonstrate knowledge of each child’s abilities and limitations and use appropriate classroom management techniques.
- Set up and organize a neat classroom environment conducive to learning, with defined interest areas and spaces for active, quiet, individual, and group play, including greeting, food preparation and eating, changing, and bathroom areas.
- Observe, assess, and record children’s behavior, needs, interests, strengths, and concerns, using an age-appropriate assessment tool regularly.
- Ensure each child’s file documents ongoing assessment, planned activities and experiences, observations, evaluations, and an up-to-date portfolio.
- Advise parents regularly about each child’s progress or problems, document contacts and attempts to reach parents, and encourage their participation.
- Supervise children’s arrival and departure and maintain attendance rosters with times for late arrivals and early departures.
- In coordination with Education and Disabilities Specialists, develop and implement an individual education program for each child with a professionally diagnosed disability, within the authority given.
- Conduct daily head counts and complete daily attendance records.
- Inventory, request, and store appropriate classroom materials and supplies.
- Evaluate the assigned Teacher Assistant in writing at least annually and submit the evaluation to the Center Coordinator or Lead Teacher.
- Promote parent and community volunteers, seek in-kind donations, and ensure service documentation is accurate and submitted on time.
- Respond appropriately to crises and emergencies.
- Monitor and document suspected child abuse and follow reporting procedures.
- Maintain confidentiality and follow the confidentiality policy.
- Actively engage with children in indoor and outdoor activities at their level and perform other assigned duties.
Benefits
- Paid time off and sick leave accruing from the first day.
- 15 paid holidays.
- Monday–Friday work week.
- Low-cost medical insurance.
- Free employee dental and vision insurance.
- Free life insurance up to two times salary.
- Free long-term disability coverage.
- Retirement plan eligibility from the first day.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
