HS - EHS Floater

Action Pact Inc•Douglas, GA

1d•$10 - $12•Hybrid

About The Position

Action Pact is a community action agency dedicated to improving lives and communities for over 50 years. We are seeking a full-time EHS Floater to provide a safe, nurturing, and positive learning environment for children. The Floater will assist the assigned teacher in the day-to-day management and planning of a classroom. This is a floating position with rotating classroom assignments within the center and may require assisting in other centers within our service area. The role involves implementing duties related to the classroom, children, and parents according to performance standards, assisting in daily classroom management, conducting daily headcounts, completing attendance and meal records, following an approved curriculum and daily schedule, and assisting in the development and implementation of lesson plans that foster cognitive, social, intellectual, physical, and emotional growth. The position also requires monitoring and reporting suspected child abuse, observing and recording child behavior, establishing and documenting educational/developmental goals for each child, and assisting in developing individualized education plans (IEPs) or individualized prescriptive plans for children with disabilities or those at risk. Additionally, the Floater will assist in compiling inventories, requesting and storing classroom materials, coordinating with parents and volunteers, maintaining confidentiality, advising parents of child progress, supervising child arrivals and departures, establishing and organizing classroom interest areas, ensuring rooms are neat and attractive, maintaining classroom records, reporting equipment needs, coordinating with community resources, promoting parent and community volunteers, seeking in-kind donations, and responding to emergencies. The Floater is expected to encourage experimentation, exploration, problem-solving, cooperation, socialization, and choice-making by asking open-ended questions and listening respectfully.

Requirements

A high school diploma or GED equivalent is required.
Valid Georgia Driver’s License

Nice To Haves

A CDA/TCC or some course work in Early Childhood Education is preferred.

Responsibilities

Conduct daily head count and complete daily attendance records and meal count
Follow an approved curriculum and daily schedule, and assist in development and implementation of daily lesson plans, which reflect activities and experiences to include all the requirements of the Head Start performance standards, i.e., fostering cognitive functioning by sequencing activities from simple to complex and from concrete to abstract. Lesson plans must include developmentally appropriate activities to promote social, intellectual, physical, emotional growth, and activities that allow children to make choices and be creative. Lesson plans must also include appropriate nutrition, mental health, dental health activities as an individual learning unit or as a part of other learning activities and experience. Must be distinct and easily identifiable, balancing teacher directed and child initiated activities which are developmentally and age appropriate
Monitor, document and follow the policy for reporting suspected child abuse
Observe, assess and record the behavior of assigned children. Records must reflect assessment tool(s) used. There must be evidence in each child’s folder that his or her program of activities and experiences are planned and based on an on-going assessment. On-going observations, recordings (anecdotal or other) evaluations of each child’s growth and development must be contained in each child’s folder
There must be an educational and/or developmental goal established for each child. To reach the established goal – this effort must be documented by assisting in timely updating of each assigned child’s assessment.
In the absence of the Teacher and in conjunction with Disability Specialist and appropriate professional staff, parents, etc. develop and implement an individualized education plan (IEP) for each child with an identified and confirmed (professionally diagnosed) disability, and an Individualized Prescriptive Plan for “children at risk”
Assist to compile an inventory. Assist to request and store adequate and appropriate classroom materials and Supplies
Assist Teacher with visits to the homes of parents or guardians of children assigned to classroom
Assist Teacher to coordinate the activities of volunteers
Understands, respects and maintains confidential information regarding children, families, and program
Assists in the implementation of the assigned curriculum designed to improve the physical abilities, social/emotional development, and mental skills of children enrolled in the program.
Assist Teacher to demonstrate on a continual basis appropriate classroom management techniques, i.e., establishing and maintaining organization, dealing with disruptions and behavior problems, etc. (The use of corporal punishment and isolation as disciplinary measures is strictly prohibited, and could result in immediate termination.)
On a continual basis, assists Teacher to advise parents of progress and/or problems of each child. Assist in the documentation of all contacts and attempted contacts with parents
Be courteous and receptive to all Head Start parents, encourage participation in their child’s developments at every occasion. Reinforce positive behavior shown by parents
Assist the Teacher to supervise the arrival and departure of children and to load/unload buses
Assist the Lead Teacher/Teacher to establish, utilize and identify a variety of interest areas. Assist the Lead Teacher/Teacher to organize space equipment and supplies Establish minimally: Blocks, Library corner, Discovery/Science area, Dramatic play/housekeeping area, Table Toys and Games, Art area, Music/Movement, Sand/Water, Computer, Writing, Storage area(s)
Assist to assure that rooms are neat and attractive, and children’s work displayed at eye level
Assist to assure there are indicators or evidence in each child’s folder that his or her program of activities and experiences are planned and based on an on-going assessment
Assist in the absence of Teacher to maintain records in the classroom established by the appropriate Specialist
To report to Teacher needs for equipment repair or placement
Assist Teacher, with the approval of the Center Coordinator/Lead Teacher, to coordinate with appropriate community resources
Promotes parent and community volunteers and actively seeks In-Kind donations
Respond appropriately to crisis or emergency situations that may occur
Encourage experimentation, exploration, problem solving, cooperation, socialization, and choice making; ask open-ended questions and listen respectfully to the answers
Required to assist in other centers within our service area, as needed.
All other duties assigned