Salary: $24.89 Hourly
Location: Various Locations - San Bernardino County, CA
Job Type:
Department: Child Development Center
Job Number: 006972024
Closing: Continuous
Job Description
San Bernardino Community College District accepts applications for part-time, hourly adjunct positions for our two college campuses (San Bernardino Valley College and Crafton Hills College) on a continuous basis. However, this does not imply the department is actively recruiting for this position. If there is an interest and/or need within the specific department, applicants who meet the minimum requirements will be contacted by respective department deans and/or faculty chairs. Applications submitted will remain active for up to one (1) year.
This posting is to establish a pool of qualified applicants positions as Substitute Child Development Teacher.
SUMMARY DESCRIPTION
Assumes responsibility for the instruction, health, and safety of young children 0 to 60 months of age enrolled in the Child Development Center programs.
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS
The Child Development Teacher classification is distinguished from the Child Development Assistant classification in that the Child Development Teacher serves as Teacher in an assigned classroom with full responsibility for the instruction, health, and safety of young children in the assigned classroom while the Child Development Assistant serves in an Assistant Teacher capacity.
SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED
Receives limited direction from appropriate supervisor; refers only unusual decisions to the Lead Child Development Teacher and/or supervisor. May provide technical and functional direction to assigned student workers. Provides guidance and oversees the work of Child Development Assistants.
REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES
The following duties are typical for this classification.

• Provides a safe, nurturing, and developmentally appropriate environment that supports children's development and readiness skills; plans, prepares, and implements weekly curriculum and lesson plans that outlines themes, learning activities, goals, and objectives.
• Individualizes curriculum for the needs of each child's interests, strengths, and individual learning style.
• Supervises indoor and outdoor activities, adhering to all health and safety procedures to ensure a safe and healthy environment; works engages with groups of children in a variety of activities while maintaining clear and consistent routines and expectations.
• Supervises and participates in all mealtime activities.
• Provides a quiet and peaceful atmosphere for children to sleep.
• Arranges classroom environments to enhance interest in learning according to state quality standards, such as the Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale (ECERS).
• Maintains a clean, healthy, safe, and orderly indoor and outdoor environment by following Center policies and procedures for health and safety related issues; does laundry; performs general housekeeping duties as required.
• Participates in all daily activities, such as toileting, diaper changing, hand washing, health checks, and related classroom transition activities.
• Prepares children to attend and perform at special events.
• Provides oversight and direction to laboratory students, observation students, nursing students, student workers, parents, and volunteers assigned to the Center; provides training to college students with Child Development majors.
• Provides ongoing observation and documentation of each individual child's growth and development through pictures, anecdotal notes, and sample work; implements state required Desired Result Development Profile (DRDP) Assessment for each child.
• Prepares and maintains appropriate, accurate and complete records and reports in accordance with program and state requirements; completes assigned paperwork and reports in an accurate and timely manner.
• Communicates with parents and staff to develop positive, reciprocal relationships; conducts formal parent/teacher conferences to discuss assessments; conducts other conferences as needed.
• Identifies and refers children with special needs to parents and the Child Development Center Director.
• Provides opportunities for other departments to observe, interview and/or tour within the classroom setting.
• Maintains awareness of new trends and developments in the field of early childhood education; incorporates new developments as appropriate.
• Maintains inventory of and distributes classroom supplies; submits requests for instructional supplies.
• In the absence of the director, may serve as designee to receive licensing reports from state and/or provide tours.
• Performs other duties related to the primary job duties.

The following generally describes the knowledge and ability required to enter the job and/or be learned within a short period of time in order to successfully perform the assigned duties.
CORE COMPETENCIES:
Environmental Exposure Tolerance

• Performing under physically demanding conditions
• Accepts and endures the necessity of working in unpleasant or physically demanding conditions
• Shows established adaptation and performance under unpleasant or physically demanding conditions

Safety Focus

• Showing vigilance and care in identifying and addressing health risks and safety hazards
• Maintains high level of conscientious safety practice

General Physical Ability

• Using strength, endurance, flexibility, balance and coordination
• Applying motor and perceptual abilities requiring no specific technique, training or conditioning

Professional and Technical Expertise

• Applying technical subject matter to the job **
• Knows the rudimentary concepts of performing the essential technical operations

Adaptability

• Responding positively to change and modifying behavior as the situation requires**
• Accept and adjust to changes and the unfamiliar

Innovation

• Imagining and devising new and better ways of doing things**
• Fix what is broken; find solutions and fixes with resources at hand
• Finds new approaches to performing familiar tasks
• Create and invent new ideas; envision the unexpected, unexplored, untried**

Critical Thinking

• Analytically and logically evaluates information to resolve problems
• Follow guide, SOP or other step by step procedures for locating the source of a problem and fixing it
• May detect ambiguous, incomplete, or conflicting information or instructions**

Informing

• Proactively obtaining and sharing information

Mechanical Insight

• Chooses the right tool for the job
• Applies principles of mechanical advantage to get the work done
• Follows step-by-step assembly procedures, troubleshooting guides, and simple diagrams

Customer Focus

• Attending to the needs and expectations of customer
• Seeks information about the immediate and longer term needs of the customer
• Anticipates what the customer may want or expect in a product or service
• Works across organizational boundaries to meet customer needs **

Attention to Detail

• Focusing on the details of work content
• Shows care and thoroughness in adhering to process and procedures that assure quality
• Applies knowledge and skill in recognizing and evaluating details of work**
• Applies skilled final touches on products

Using Technology

• Working with electronic hardware and software applications
• Using basic features and functions of software and hardware

Valuing Diversity

• Shows acceptance of individual differences
• Welcomes input and inclusion of others who may be different from oneself
• Shows understanding and empathy for the challenges of groups seeking inclusion or dealing with perceived discrimination

**Lead, Advanced or Senior Level Positions
Qualifications
Education/Training: An Associate's degree or sixty (60) semester units with at least twenty-four (24) units in early childhood education or child development.
Experience: Two (2) years of experience working in a licensed child development program as an assistant or a teacher of infants or preschoolers.
License or Certificate:

• Possession of a Child Development Teacher Permit issued by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.
• Possession of a current pediatric C.P.R. Certificate and First Aid Certificate.
• Possession of a Mandated Child Abuse Reporter Certificate.

Physical Demands and Working Environment
The conditions herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.
Environment: Work is performed in a child development center; exposure to bodily fluids and communicable diseases; subject to noise from children and equipment operation; frequent interruptions and contact in person with children, parents, students, staff, and others.
Physical: Primary functions require sufficient physical ability and mobility to work in a child development center; to stand or sit for prolonged periods of time; to frequently stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, reach, and twist; to frequently lift, carry, push, and/or pull light to moderate amounts of weight up to 30 pounds; to occasionally lift, carry, push, and/or pull heavier amounts of weight up to 40 pounds with or without assistance; to operate classroom equipment requiring repetitive hand movement and fine coordination; to verbally communicate to exchange information; and to occasionally travel to other offices or locations.
Vision: See in the normal visual range with or without correction; vision sufficient to read computer screens and printed documents; and to operate assigned equipment.
Hearing: Hear in the normal audio range with or without correction.
Employment Requirements
Employment Requirements:
The person selected for hire will be required to complete the following pre-employment requirements:

• Submit to and successfully pass DOJ live scan/fingerprinting. Cost of live-scan services to be borne by candidate.
• Sealed official transcript(s) in envelope from institution or electronic copies emailed directly from institution (for positions with higher education requirement)
• Tuberculosis (TB) risk assessment
• Other pre-employment requirements may be required depending on the position (i.e. certifications or licenses; see job posting qualifications section for details).

Successful completion of all pre-employment requirements is mandatory to be eligible for employment. These requirements are in accordance with the San Bernardino Community College District's Administrative Procedures and Board Policies.
To apply, visit: https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/sbccd/jobs/4067426/substitute-child-development-teacher
The San Bernardino Community College District is an equal opportunity employer. The District encourages applications from underrepresented minorities and the disabled.
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