Preschool Lead Teacher - EDEY

Child-Parent Centers, Inc. • Tucson, AZ

186d • $1,698 - $1,868

About The Position

Child-Parent Centers (CPC) is seeking professionals who share our values and principles for building trusting relationships with children, families, and colleagues. Successful candidates welcome individual differences and perspectives, respect cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and are sensitive to current circumstances. Candidates display a commitment to teamwork, open communication, and are eager to work in a fast-paced, high quality preschool environment. This is a great opportunity for organized and dependable early childhood professionals with strong work ethic and a desire to grow. CPC provides opportunities and financial support for lead teachers to grow professionally including continuing education credits in childhood education or child development or through professional memberships in local regional or national early childhood organizations. If you have previous experience working in an early childhood center and are interested in joining our growing team, we encourage you to apply. Reporting to the Site Supervisor, leads the classroom team in providing comprehensive high-quality early education and child development services for enrolled children and families. Daily routines promote children’s cognitive, social, health, and emotional growth for later success in school. The lead teacher serves as the parent’s primary contact for all services. The lead teacher receives regular on-going support from the site supervisor and the education specialist (coach) to implement the agency’s curriculum that includes creating a safe and enriching environment, embedding responsive and effective teacher-child interactions, and fostering partnerships with families by respecting values, strengths, and cultures and welcoming parent's contributions and participation.

Requirements

• Must be 18 years of age.
• Possess an associate degree from a recognized educational institution in the field of early childhood education or a related field.
• Minimum of 18 credits in early childhood education or child development coursework.
• One (1) year documented work experience with classroom based preschool aged children.
• Demonstrated proficiency using Office 365 (Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Possess a valid Arizona driver's license and excellent driving record.
• Possess a current AZ Department of Public Safety Level One Fingerprint Clearance Card OR obtain prior to the first day of work.
• Must read, write, and speak English.

Nice To Haves

• Possess a bachelor’s or master’s degree from a recognized educational institution in the field of Early Childhood Education or closely related field.
• Two (2) years documented experience as a supervisor.
• Four (4) years’ experience working in a preschool center-based classroom.
• Six (6) years’ work or volunteer experience with groups or individuals from a variety of ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds or with Head Start.

Responsibilities

• Implement the Languages of Learning curriculum a minimum of 6.75 hours per day four days per week.
• Ensure and support the completion of at least two parent conferences and two home visits during the program year.
• Set learning goals and plan learning experiences by integrating knowledge of each child’s temperament, interests, gender, culture, language, learning approaches, understanding, misconceptions, and abilities.
• Promote children’s active exploration, creativity, and development in all domains by designing indoor and outdoor environments based on knowledge of how children develop and learn.
• Build children’s pride in their cultures, families, and communities by ensuring that classroom learning centers and materials reflect children’s cultures and communities.
• Ensure that children are intellectually challenged by selecting, organizing, and using high-quality materials and equipment.
• Use information about children obtained through home visits, parent-teacher conferences, and other parent-staff interactions.
• Maintain a healthy physical environment by following health and safety procedures.
• Support parents in extending children’s learning at home by providing newsletters, take-home activities, home visits, and parent-teacher conferences.
• Help children who are learning English by providing them with the supports they need to fully participate in classroom experiences.
• Encourage children’s emergent writing skills and their awareness of print.
• Support children’s interest in and awareness of numbers, counting, and problem solving.
• Promote children’s understanding of size, shape, color, and directionality.
• Assist children in understanding math and science concepts by embedding experiences into everyday routines.
• Help children expand their knowledge of their bodies and the world around them.
• Encourage children’s use of scientific inquiry.
• Facilitate children’s ability to listen to, interact with, and appreciate different types of music.
• Develop children’s imagination and creativity.
• Help children learn about themselves and others.
• Align goals and approaches to support children’s progress.
• Offer families opportunities to increase their child observation skills.
• Engage families as full partners in their own and their children’s development and learning.
• Strengthen parent-child relationships.
• Support families in addressing challenges that affect their well-being.
• Individualize approaches to working with families.
• Supervise assigned staff by providing direction, input, and feedback.
• Monitor child observation, screening, and assessment data.
• Participate in center staff meetings and the planning of center activities.

Benefits

• 25 paid holidays (time off aligns with most school districts).
• 5 days paid vacation, 10 days each year thereafter.
• 8 days paid Personal leave first year, 8 days each year thereafter.
• Up to 5 days paid Sick leave each year.
• Insurance benefits - dental, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Reimbursement Arrangements, Health Savings Accounts, PPO medical (3 plans), Vision, and Supplemental Life coverage for self, spouse, and child.
• Agency contribution to retirement plan after years of services and hours eligibility criteria are met.
• Employee 401k deferral after eligibility is met.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees