Summer Program Lead Teacher

Western New Mexico University • Mission, NM

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About The Position

The Summer Program Lead Teacher is responsible for developing, implementing, and evaluating student-centered and age-appropriate curriculum that adheres to national accreditation requirements. This role involves providing daily educational activities, facilitating small group sessions, and planning special events and classroom activities. The Lead Teacher will supervise classroom and playground activities, ensuring student safety and understanding of lesson objectives. Collaboration with teaching staff, administration, and families is key, as is fostering parental involvement and cultural diversity in the classroom. The position also involves coordinating and supervising practicum and internship students, and performing other assigned duties.

Requirements

• Adherence to national accreditation requirements.
• Ability to provide daily age-appropriate educational activities.
• Skill in facilitating small group interactive sessions.
• Capability to plan and implement special events and classroom activities.
• Supervision of classroom and playground activities.
• Ability to assign tasks to assistants.
• Collaboration with teaching staff and administration.
• Planning and implementation of outdoor curricular activities.
• Effective communication with families regarding student progress.
• Maintenance of positive relationships with students, families, colleagues, and the community.
• Fostering parental involvement and cultural diversity.
• Adherence to the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct and Statement of Commitment.
• Coordination of practicum and internship students.
• Completion of required laboratory student assessment reports.
• Meeting with education faculty and co-teaching staff to evaluate students.

Responsibilities

• Develops, implements, and evaluates student centered and age-appropriate curriculum to ensure adherence to national accreditation requirements.
• Provides daily age-appropriate educational activities for students.
• Provides small group interactive sessions to ensure understanding of concepts, lesson and/or activities.
• Plans and implements special events and classroom activities in support of emergent curriculum.
• Supervises classroom activities of students for understanding of specific lesson objectives and educational exercise.
• Assigns classroom activities to assistants to facilitate overall classroom management and delivery of instruction.
• Works closely with other teaching staff and administration to coordinate and plan projects and activities.
• Supervises all playground student activities and behavior to ensure appropriate safety and interaction skills.
• Plans and implements outdoor curricular activities with the students, extending the learning environment from indoors to outdoors.
• Works closely with families to discuss student progress, concerns, needs.
• Works to maintain strong, positive relationships with student, families, colleagues, and the community.
• Continually seeks creative ways to inspire, foster and support parental involvement, utilizing the uniqueness of each student and family to introduce cultural diversity into the curriculum and classroom.
• Adheres to the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct and Statement of Commitment.
• Coordinates the activities of the practicum and internship students to deepen their understanding of education best practices through hands-on learning in the classroom setting and completes the required laboratory student assessment reports.
• Meets with education faculty and co-teaching staff to evaluate internship and practicum students.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed