Infant Toddler Teacher- Gladeview Area (5WKS PTO-$16.61 hr)

United Way Miami•Miami, FL

16h•Onsite

About The Position

United Way Miami is hiring an Infant Toddler Teacher to join their team. The Infant Toddler Teacher will provide a safe and nurturing environment for children, fostering their social, emotional, physical, and intellectual development. This role involves collaborating with the Director EHS-CCP Site to design and implement a developmentally appropriate curriculum aligned with UWM guidelines, the EHS-CCP grant, and Head Start Performance Standards. The position emphasizes making a difference in the community by tackling complex issues and fighting for equitable access to quality education, financial security, and the health of everyone in the community.

Requirements

High School Diploma
Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) 45-hour child care training requirement must be completed during the first year of employment
15 in-service hours per year
Flexibility
Understanding concepts of diversity and inclusion
Good communication skills
Working in a team environment
Sensitivity to the needs of others

Nice To Haves

CDA with a focus on Infant/Toddler or to complete it during the first year of employment
Bilingual preferred

Responsibilities

Provide experiences that build on children’s prior experiences by drawing on children’s curiosity and encouraging them to come up with their questions, theories, and hypotheses.
Encourage and model appropriate behavior and expectations.
Be attentive, flexible, and supportive of children and their families.
Practice positive discipline techniques.
Capitalize on opportunities to help children build vocabulary by asking follow-up questions.
Design and implement a reflective curriculum, materials, activities, and environments daily that provide a balance supporting a child’s learning.
Responsible for the observation, documentation, and all aspects of the data-gathering process of each child’s health, behavior, growth, and development.
Use observations to plan and respond to the individual needs of the children and the group.
Demonstrate cultural sensitivity and respect towards persons of different cultural, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds.
Design a thoughtful classroom environment to optimize small and large group interactions, social learning, and constructive play.
Analyze and interpret the learning process and share it with colleagues and children.
Follow a reflective planning cycle: Observe and reflect, Document and reflect, Reflect, discuss, and plan, Implement and reflect.
Acknowledge and respond to all parents and visitors in a friendly, courteous, and professional demeanor.
Communicate daily including conferences, events, and meetings.
Share resources with parents.
Schedule, develop plans, and conduct home visits in collaboration with the Family Engagement Staff.
Keep information confidential and only share with pertaining staff.
Engage parents in ongoing communication about their child’s development screenings and assessments.
Implement the Brazelton Touchpoints guiding principles and assumptions.
Use data and share with families to individualize instruction and create action plans if needed.
Provide parents with activities designed to enhance their child’s development based on their child’s assessment results.
Review overall summary scores, subscales, and individual items from screenings and assessments.
Take the lead in guiding the team in developing classroom goals and action plans.
Ensure that daily responsibilities are complete, and jobs are shared.
Implement reflective supervision with the teaching team.
Supervise children, following all safety and health rules and knowing the number of children in the group at all times.
Keep the environment safe, organized, and accessible to children.
Complete appropriate documentation to report incidents and accidents.
Keep abreast of the latest trends and research in the early childhood field.
Demonstrate knowledge and flexibility in child care practices, continuing ongoing professional growth.
Attend all required meetings/training and be punctual.
Protect the confidentiality of children; no information about a child or family is meant to be shared with other staff members.
Establish and maintain a relationship of cooperation, respect, and confidentiality.
Participate in classroom and Center events.
Be open to communicate and collaborate at all times.
Take action, but inform the Director when caring for a child with a significant injury, acknowledging and listening to a parent’s concern, filing a neglect and abuse complaint, or recording an unusual incident.