Description

Position Summary

Provide mentor coaching, new employee training, and overall support and follow-up with teachers using a referral and case management approach. Ensure that teachers are getting the direction needed to successfully teach and implement the assigned curriculum and practices which promote high-quality learning and school readiness.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain positive, supportive relationships with child development staff.
• Work with the child development managers to develop a schedule for conducting classroom observations as a foundation for determining needs.
• Assist in the development of individual mentor coaching plans, with specific IEP/IFSP goals, child behavior interventions, and areas for growth identified, which are based on classroom and teacher observations.
• Submit quarterly planning learning observation tool plans to review with the Disability Manager and assess teacher/ child progress.
• Follow-up on individual child development staff requests for disability specialist services and document nature of training provided.
• Provide constructive feedback and support to teaching staff for learning and growth. The process may include activities, reading material, or other resources as needed to guide learning for children with disabilities or/and behavioral concerns.
• Train new teaching staff and maintain support as needed while they gain knowledge of their role and the responsibilities of their position in working with children with disabilities.
• Assist in the planning of small group workshops on relevant child development topics based on program monitoring outcomes.
• Promote best practices in early childhood development based on Head Start Performance Standards, Creative Curriculum, State Childcare Guidelines, and other prescribed curricula used at Community Action for Improvement, Inc. Head Start/ Early Head Start.
• Use reflective practice and additional strategies to promote positive outcomes for the teaching staff and the children they influence.
• Receive and maintain TPOT/TPITOS certification.
• Utilize the TPOT/TPITOS assessment to analyze classroom arrangement and teacher child interactions.
• Travel as needed throughout Community Action for Improvement, Inc. Head Start/Early Head Start catchment area.

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  Maintain Professional and Ethical Standards

• Maintain confidentiality in accordance with Agency policy and legal requirements.
• Be honest, reliable and dependable.
• Respect and maintain rights and privacy of all staff, parents, and children.
• Attend mandated training and meetings, and seek out staff development opportunities.
• Work as a team member with all staff and maintain a positive work ethic.
• Act conscientiously in performing routine duties

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  Physical Demands

  The physical demands described here 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 functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and move up to 20 pounds. The employee must be able to occasionally lift 20 pounds overhead and 40 pounds from waist to shoulder. The employee frequently lifts and moves up to 40 pounds, and occasionally lifts 50 pounds from floor to waist. The employee must be able to push/pull up to 75 pounds horizontally. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distant vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Qualifications

Qualifications Knowledge and Skills

• Must have knowledge of various software programs such as MS Word, Excel, Power-Point, Publisher, and Child Plus.

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and government regulations in fields relevant to the position.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedures manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from community members, community groups, families, staff, and the general public.
• Ability to use basic math skills, to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to organize and manage time effectively, and work independently.
• Ability to write using correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

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  Education

Minimum

AA degree in Early Childhood Education or related field, including meeting the minimum requirements for a Child Development Permit at the Associate Teacher level or higher.Certificates and training related to providing care to young children with disabilities.

Desired

BA degree in Early Childhood Education or related field, including core ECE units: Human/Child Development (3 units), Family, Child and Community (3 units), and Program/Curriculum (3 units). Certificates and training related to providing care to young children with disabilities.

Training and Experience

Minimum

One year classroom teaching experience

Desired

Two years classroom teaching experience. Teacher level Child Development Permit.