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Salvation Army Central Territory

Teacher Assistant Job at Salvation Army Central Territory in Chicago

Salvation Army Central Territory, Chicago, IL, US, 60601

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Job Title: Teacher Assistant Head Start

Organization: The Salvation Army North And Central Illinois Division Chilcare

Location/Department: North & Central Illinois Division / Child Care

Reports To: Teacher/Site Director

Pay Grade: 202

Pay Range: $17.00-$20.40

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

  • Safety
    • Demonstrates safety practices.
    • Minimizes potential hazards.
    • Provides adequate supervision.
    • Provides safety instruction.
  • Health
    • Maintains a healthy classroom environment.
    • Assists the teacher in planning and implementing activities that promote personal health and sound nutrition.
  • Learning Environment
    • Maintains learning environment.
    • Assists the teacher in planning and implementing activities that promote an interest in the learning environment offering a choice of learning center activities for at least sixty minutes each day.
      • Physical
        • Assists the teacher in planning and implementing activities that promote the physical development of each child.
        • Maintains an environment conducive to development of physical skills.
      • Cognitive
        • Assists the teacher in planning and implementing activities that promote questioning, probing exploration and problem solving.
        • Helps children develop conceptual framework for interpreting experiences, including:
          • Seriation
          • Number
          • Spatial relations
          • Representation
          • Time
  • Communication
    • Promotes children's listening skills.
    • Promotes clear articulation and language production.
    • Promotes adult-child communication.
    • Promotes child-child communication.
  • Creative
    • Supplies equipment and materials that encourage creativity.
    • Encourages innovative uses of materials and divergent thinking.
    • Self
      • Assists the teacher in assessing each child's current skill level.
      • Writes observation notes weekly on C.A.R
      • Summarizes child's skills two times per year on C.O.R
      • Plans and implements activities which maximize opportunities for success.
      • Provides positive feedback to children when appropriate.
  • Social
    • Assists the teacher in planning and implementing activities that develop awareness of feelings and emotions.
      • Capitalizes on spontaneous occurrences of empathy, display of feelings and emotions throughout the day.
      • Serves as role model.
  • Guidance
    • Maintains an environment conducive to preventive discipline.
    • Maintains consistent discipline in the classroom.
    • Sets and enforces appropriate limits.
    • Maintains a positive approach to classroom control and recognizes self-control as a learning process.
    • Organizes smooth and appropriate transitions.
    • Focuses on activity at hand rather than children's behavior.
    • Ignores inappropriate behavior when possible.
    • "lets go" of negative instances: does not harbor grudges.
    • Encourages children to make appropriate choices in controlling their own behavior.
    • Avoids excessive lining up.
  • Families
    • Involves parents in the classroom program.
    • Involves parents in extending the classroom program into the home.
    • Assists the teacher in sharing information on child's progress with parents.
    • Helps parents plan in-home activities to supplement the classroom program.
    • Makes home visits in September/October and April/May.
    • Serves as liaison between other components and parents.
  • Program Management
    • Employs a wide variety of resources in implementing curriculum.
    • Assists the teacher in planning classroom programs in an organized timely fashion.
    • Completes weekly/daily lesson plans on time.
    • Submits records, requisitions, reports and plans when due.
    • Maintains accurate daily attendance and food count.
    • Makes use of program resource personnel in planning for children and their families.
    • Ensures team cooperation.
    • Supervises classroom aides.
  • Professionalism
    • Maintains a professional attitude.
    • Keeps abreast of early childhood education practices.
  • Other Duties
    • All other duties as assigned.

    • Education/Experience

    • Associate of Arts degree in early childhood education.
    • Two years of experience in a pre-school setting.
    • Some experience with young children.

    Competencies

    • Some knowledge of social service programs helpful.
    • Good communication and interpersonal skills.
    • Demonstrated ability to use initiative and be a self starter.
    • A positive attitude and the ability to be flexible in light of changing job situations/priorities.
    • An attention to detail.
    • A commitment to support and uphold the mission of The Salvation Army.