LEADTEACHER: FOR ALL AGES

Position Summary

The Daycare Teacherinstructs preschool-aged children in activities designed to promote social,physical, and intellectual growth. Performs a variety of tasks, such asdressing, feeding, bathing, and overseeing play of children in daycare.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The essentialfunctions include, but are not limited to the following:

·Organize and leadactivities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development, suchas games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, and field trips.

·Teach basicskills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene,and social skills.

·Observe andevaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physicalhealth.

·Attend tochildren's basic needs by feeding them, dressing them, and changing theirdiapers if needed.

·Provide a varietyof materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, bothin learning activities and in imaginative play. 

·Serve meals andsnacks in accordance with nutritional guidelines.

·Teach propereating habits and personal hygiene.

·Prepare materialsand classrooms for class activities.

·Enforce alladministration policies and rules governing students.

·Identify childrenshowing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems anddiscuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child developmentspecialists.

·Meet with parentsand guardians to discuss their children's progress and needs, determine theirpriorities for their children, and suggest ways that they can promote learningand development.

·Perform otherduties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

• CDA you must have
• Three years of related experience or relevant coursework
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
• Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation.
• Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described hereare representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfullyperform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations maybe made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. Whileperforming the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required totalk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or finger,handle, or feel objects, tools or controls. The employee is frequently requiredto stand; walk; sit; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop,kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include closevision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability toadjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate tohigh.

Note

This job description in no way states or implies that theseare the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in thisposition. Employees will be required to follow any other job-relatedinstructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by anyperson authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties andresponsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject topossible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.To perform this job successfully, the incumbents will possess the skills,aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirementsmay exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to thehealth or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in thisdocument are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. Thisdocument does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, otherthan an “at will” relationship.