Infant-Toddler Student Assistant Teacher

Associated Students • Long Beach, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Under general supervision, the Infant-Toddler Student Assistant Teacher’s primary responsibilities are to provide safe and appropriate care, guidance, and supervision of children. This includes developing interpersonal skills necessary to interact effectively and respectfully with children. The Student Assistant Teacher carries out responsibilities required by daily routines and assigned tasks such as but not limited to meal and napping routines, diapering/toileting procedures, care, and supervision of equipment and supplies, and housekeeping tasks. Under the guidance of program teachers the Student Assistant Teacher helps set up and maintain a safe and nurturing environment that provides, support, comfort, challenge, and predictability for children.

Requirements

• Must be enrolled at California State University, Long Beach in at least six units with a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 and making satisfactory progress in a degree program.
• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• General working knowledge of the Associated Students, its programs, activities and services.
• Reading, writing, mathematical, and reasoning abilities appropriate to the position.
• Ability to develop trusting relationships with children and to demonstrate respect for and acceptance of children.
• Must be capable of working under pressure and handle multiple requests simultaneously.
• Must demonstrate eagerness and capacity to learn.
• Successful completion of a fingerprint background check (live scan).
• Must meet state health requirements: physical exam, tuberculosis test (every 5 years), TDAP (every 10 years), Immunization Record (MMR), and flu shot (annually or sign waiver).
• Completion of Healthy School Act (every year).
• Mandated Reporting Training (every 2 years).
• Considered a 'mandated reporter' under the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act and required to comply with CSU Executive Order 1083.

Nice To Haves

• Minimum or no previous work experience required.

Responsibilities

• Establishes relationships and demonstrates skills with children, including knowing all children by name, providing quality care and supervision, demonstrating respectful and trusting relationships, exhibiting an understanding and acceptance of children's emotions, behavior, motivations, and needs, becoming aware of children’s individual needs and parental requests, demonstrating an understanding of when to use independent judgment and when to inform supervisor, limiting communication with parents to specific topics, acquiring effective skills for interacting, forming an understanding of anti-bias and demonstrating the skills involved, becoming familiar with Program Philosophy, Goals for Children, Mission, and Vision Statements, and becoming familiar with the RIE Philosophy and how to demonstrate effective primary caregiving skills.
• Develops and demonstrates effective communication and teamwork skills, including developing positive working relationships with other staff, communicating with staff on duty as required, informing supervisor about injuries, safety concerns, and/or unusual events, assisting in set up and cleaning tasks, conveying a willingness to help, working with others to solve problems, informing supervisor of purchasing needs in a timely manner, and reporting absences and requests for time off as stated in the personnel policies.
• Creates and maintains a safe, healthy, and nurturing environment, including conducting daily wellness checks with each child, helping maintain a safe environment by continuous inspection for health and safety, reading and understanding the IPCDC’s Health, Safety, and Emergency Preparedness document and following procedures, reporting child accidents, injuries, illnesses, and unusual incidents, and becoming familiar with the dietary accommodations of children during meal times.
• Engages in personal development and participates in the development of the program, including attending bi-annual retreats and weekly staff meetings, demonstrating a willingness to learn about program philosophy, goals for children, and methods for interacting with children, taking part in self-evaluation process, and potentially helping to orient and shadow new staff.
• Establishes and maintains effective relationships with parents, including acknowledging parents, displaying a welcoming demeanor and ability to instill confidence, referring parental questions and/or concerns to program teacher, helping parents separate from their children at drop off, helping parents at pick up time, and maintaining daily forms for primary children.
• Plans, prepares, and carries out activities with children, including learning guidelines for planning and presenting activities and beginning to carry out activities with children which focuses on the learning experiences (process) and not a desired or end result (product).
• Prepares and maintains records, reports, and checklists, including becoming aware of and carrying out paperwork responsibilities as required by daily routines and understanding and carrying out the opening and closing checklist routines.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed