Teacher and Floating Teacher

House of Ruth•Washington, DC

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Provides a safe, nurturing, and therapeutic educational environment to promote the development of young children. Plans and teaches an age-appropriate curriculum while incorporating therapeutic techniques and assists parents to understand and foster their child’s growth.

Requirements

Associates or higher degree in Early Childhood Education related field with at least 24 credits in early childhood courses.
Two-Year experience within early childhood care and education.
Successfully passing the following pre-employment process is required: FBI Fingerprint/Background Check Alcohol and drug Test Urine Screening TB Test Police Clearance
Must be fully vaccinated
Strong working knowledge of MS Office 365.
High level of interpersonal skills to handle sensitive and confidential situations.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Must be patient, a good listener, and approachable.
Must be well organized and committed.
Creative and energetic
Strong moral values and discipline.
All candidates must be required to complete an in-person writing assessment.

Responsibilities

Plans and implements developmentally appropriate curriculum tailored to the age group and the individualized needs and levels of the children.
In conjunction with the assistant/aide, prepare weekly lesson plans.
Determines specific needs and skill levels and ensures that each child receives direct instruction by working with the entire group, small groups, and individuals.
Assess and meets the social-emotional needs of each child and provides daily nurturing to each individual through interactive play and one on one time.
Teaches self-soothing/coping mechanisms by immediately addressing and comforting upset children both physically and verbally.
Develops and maintains an orderly, clean, attractive, therapeutic and educational environment that encourages expression of feelings, making choices, exploration, creativity and discovery of learning.
Validates and accepts children’s feelings, both positive and negative, at all times.
Carries out appropriate, positive and consistent discipline reflective of each child’s goals.
Uses redirection and natural or logical consequences rather than punishments.
Validates and comforts children who are having a difficult time as a result of redirection/consequences.
Completes developmental assessments, skills checklists and develops individualized goals for each child.
Completes daily observations in TS GOLD and progress reports.
Communicates regularly with other staff and specialists about issues involving children and their parents.
Ensures that all specialists’ recommendations are followed.
Helps build a positive team.
Maintains ongoing communication with parents concerning his/her child’s progress.
Holds regularly scheduled parent conferences.
Teach parents parenting skills.
Provides positive role models and nurturance to parents.
Attends and participates in all required meetings and training sessions.
Helps build supportive staff and parent team.
Follow all recommendations from specialists.
Actively participates in all quality improvement efforts, including, but not limited to, becoming familiar with QI tools such as CLASS and ITERS and following the best practices described by these tools, attending assigned training, completing surveys and other assignments designed to improve program quality, participating in observations by internal observers and outside observers.
Conducts home visits per Early Head Start schedule and guidelines.
All duties and responsibilities are completed according to House of Ruth’s policies and procedures.
Other duties may be assigned.