Infant & Toddler Teacher - Council Bluffs Early Head Start

Iowa Community Action Association - West Central Community Action•Council Bluffs, IA

21h•Onsite

About The Position

West Central Community Action is seeking an Infant & Toddler Teacher for its Madison Avenue Early Head Start classrooms in Council Bluffs. The position focuses on children from birth to age three. The teacher creates and manages an attractive, warm, challenging, and safe learning environment, incorporating appropriate early intervention, learning, and care activities to meet the needs of individual children, groups, and families. The teacher provides respectful, responsive caregiving and performs duties in accordance with Head Start Program Performance Standards, agency policies and procedures, and Iowa State licensing codes. The role includes supporting program activities and recruitment, maintaining required records, conducting center staff meetings, attending family events and training, recruiting and supervising classroom volunteers, implementing a consistent daily schedule, assessing children’s development, documenting parent communications, reporting suspected child abuse when there is reasonable cause, and completing home visits and parent-teacher conferences with families.

Requirements

Associate of Arts or Associate of Science in Early Childhood Education is required, subject to the stated alternative qualification.
Active, current, and valid driver’s license.
Active, current, and valid auto insurance.
Ability to participate in and support all program activities.
Ability to relate to infants and toddlers in a calm, caring, nurturing, and soothing manner.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood Education, with an infant/toddler emphasis.
Child Development Accreditation, together with a high school diploma or some college coursework, may be considered in place of an associate’s or bachelor’s degree.

Responsibilities

Create and manage a warm, attractive, challenging, and safe learning environment for infants and toddlers.
Incorporate appropriate early intervention, learning, and care activities to meet the needs of children and families.
Provide respectful and responsive caregiving, responding calmly and appropriately to infants’ and toddlers’ cues and using appropriate child guidance techniques.
Participate in and support all program activities.
Advocate for and participate in recruitment for WCCA programs, including Head Start.
Maintain accurate attendance, nutrition, in-kind, and other required records and reports.
Conduct monthly center staff meetings and attend assigned family events, pre-service activities, and professional development trainings.
Report suspected child abuse to DHS when there is reasonable cause to suspect a child is a victim of abuse.
Recruit, train, and supervise volunteers in the Early Head Start classroom.
Create and implement a consistent daily classroom schedule, while maintaining a flexible, on-demand schedule to meet individual infant needs.
Assess and finalize data in TSG for each child four times annually by assigned checkpoint dates.
Document parent communication about children’s attendance and activities accurately and promptly in Child Plus.
Complete two home visits and three parent-teacher conferences with each Early Head Start family annually.