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THE SALVATION ARMY

NORTH AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS DIVISION

CHILDCARE

Job Description

POSITION TITLE: Teacher – Head Start

LOCATION: North & Central Illinois Division / Child Care

REPORTS TO: Site Director

PAY GRADE: 205

PAY RANGE: $21.81-$26.17

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Safety
• Demonstrates safety practices.
• Minimizes potential hazards.
• Provides adequate supervision.
• Provides safety instruction.
• Health
• Maintains a healthy classroom environment.
• Plans and implements activities that promote personal health.
• Plans and implements activities that promote sound nutrition.
• Learning Environment
• Maintains learning environment.
• Plans and implements activities that promote an interest in the learning environment offering a choice of learning center activities for at least sixty minutes each day.
• Physical
• Plans and implements activities that promote the physical development of each child.
• Maintains an environment conducive to development of physical skills.
• Cognitive
• Plans and implements activities that promote questioning, probing exploration and problem solving.
• Helps children develop conceptual framework for interpreting experiences, including:
• Classification
• 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
• Assesses 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
• Plans and implements 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.
• Shares 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.
• Plans 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 assistant teacher and classroom aides.
• Professionalism
• Maintains a professional attitude.
• Keeps abreast of early childhood education practices.
• Other Duties
• All other duties as assigned.
  

• A. in Early Childhood Education.
• One year experience teaching in a pre-school setting.
  
  

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

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Education and Training

• Industries

  Non-profit Organizations

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