Preschool Teacher - Floater

THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER COLUMBUS•New Albany, OH

8d•$17 - $18•Onsite

About The Position

The Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus ECLC is seeking a Support/Floater Teacher for the Early Childhood Department. This non-exempt, support staff position reports to the ECLC Director. The mission of the JCC is to enhance individual and family life through physical, intellectual, and spiritual wellness, offering programs that reflect Jewish heritage and serve the community. The vision is to nurture a passion for Jewish learning and living in comfortable and inviting environments. Agency expectations include supporting the mission, ensuring high-quality programs, representing the agency with excellent customer service, engaging members and guests, treating colleagues with respect, adhering to the employee handbook, and wearing an ID badge. As a Floater Teacher, you will implement and supervise safe classroom activities on an as-needed basis, following the lead teacher's plan to promote children's emotional, social, intellectual, and physical development. Your role is flexible, and you may be asked to cover other classrooms due to staffing or ratio needs. You will assist in providing educational experiences, emphasizing the JCC Jewish curriculum, Creative Curriculum, Heggerty, and Step Up to Quality Standards. Responsibilities include greeting children and parents warmly, partnering with colleagues and administration for a positive environment, assisting in supervision of activities, maintaining a safe and clean classroom, documenting and assessing children's progress, communicating via the Brightwheel app, maintaining confidentiality, supervising all activities to ensure child safety, completing incident reports, meeting individual children's needs, and actively participating in all child activities.

Requirements

CDA, AA or BS in Early Childhood Development or Elementary Education, a related field or equivalent relevant experience.
Previous experience working with young children; two years minimum preferred.
Knowledge of developmentally appropriate practices with young children.
Good oral and written communication skills.
Ability to work constructively with children and adults.
Professional and positive attitude.
Be able to lift up to 25 pounds: Move a child during an emergency; lift/carry child to quiet area during outbursts.
Be able to run: Reach a child quickly / protect a child during an emergency; participate in physical play with children to keep them engaged.
Be able to sit on the floor: Young children play on the floor. Teachers must be able to interact with children at their level. Because young children explore and change activities frequently, teachers must be physically able to get off the floor and sit back down easily.
Stamina: Young children move constantly throughout their day. Teachers must be able to maintain the same level of energy throughout the day.
Able to participate in outdoor and indoor activities.

Responsibilities

On an as needed basis, follow the lead teacher’s plan to implement, provide and supervise safe classroom activities, which promote the emotional, social, intellectual and physical development of the children.
Assist the lead /co-lead/assistant teacher in providing appropriate children's educational experiences with an emphasis on implementing the JCC Jewish curriculum, Creative Curriculum, Heggerty, and Step Up to Quality Standards in the classrooms.
Greet each child and parent warmly and in a friendly manner each morning upon arrival.
Partners with co-workers and administration to create a positive classroom and work environment.
Assist in providing and supervising activities, which promote the emotional, social, intellectual and physical development of each child.
Work together with teaching team to maintain a safe and clean classroom environment.
Assist the lead /co-lead/assistant teacher as he/she/they document and write assessments on the children in the classroom.
Assist the lead /co-lead/assistant teacher to maintain communication tools including newsletters, lesson plans, pictures, assessments, daily reports, messages using the Brightwheel app.
Maintain confidentiality of children and families in the JCC ECLC Program.
Supervise all activities to ensure safety of each child at all times, complete incident reports and communicate information to lead teacher, or to director if lead teacher unavailable.
Meet the needs of the children by consistently engaging and meeting each child's individual needs.
Participate actively in activities with the children as outlined in ECLC Handbook, including freeplay, playground, circletime, and specialty classes.
Attend monthly staff meetings.
Attend week of in-service training prior to the start of the school year and additional evening Teacher Trainings as needed.
Attend day and evening Age Group/Curriculum Meetings and All Staff meetings as required by director, JCC H.R. and/or JCC Executive team.
Fulfill requirements for Step Up to Quality required of an Assistant Teacher role. Create a Professional Development Plan yearly, complete SUTQ trainings, and enroll in 2 hours of Ohio Approved trainings per year.
All other duties as assigned.