Lab Nursery School Educator (Substitute)

Dutchess Community College • Poughkeepsie, NY

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The June Roush Pierson Laboratory Nursery School at DCC has been providing enriching and engaging experiences for children since 1963. The program enrolls three- to five-year-old children from the campus and surrounding community in its five-morning program, housed in two bright, airy classrooms on the DCC main campus. Each classroom is staffed by an experienced master teacher and part time faculty member from the college's Early Childhood and Elementary Education Program. The play-based curriculum is carefully planned to support children's growth and development, offering a rich variety of art, sensory, literacy, math, science, and music activities, in addition to block building, dramatic play, and outdoor play. There is an emphasis on developing relationships with others, as master teachers, fieldwork students, and children engage in meaningful conversations and participate in hands-on learning experiences through play.

Requirements

• Have knowledge of developmentally appropriate practice.
• Possess at least 3 years of experience working with children at the preschool level.
• Possess at least an A.A.S in Early Childhood Education with knowledge.
• Have experience working with college students.

Responsibilities

• Be a master teacher with young children who is able to model the highest quality teaching behaviors, language, guidance techniques, parent relations, curriculum development/planning, assessment techniques and environmental set up (environment as the second teacher) for students in ECH 206, ECH 108 and ECH 207 who work directly in the classroom.
• Be present in the classroom from 8:00am-1:00pm in order to prepare the classroom, meet with fieldwork students from 8:00am-9:00am, as well as clean the classroom and meet with fieldwork students from 12:00pm-1:00pm.
• Be able, with no other professional staff in the room, mentor, guide, and direct DCC freshmen and sophomore ECH/EED students.
• Follow substitute plans left by the Master Teacher they are substituting for.
• Be able to work as a mentor/teacher to the DCC students during the unofficial "seminar" hours as the room is set up and cleaned up each day. This includes explaining the set-up and activities of the day, how those activities will promote learning in the group as a whole and with individual children, eliciting student observations about the children and guiding reflections about the children as she transfers responsibility to the sophomores who will be expected to "run" the room during the last weeks of the semester.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree