Teacher Job at The Salvation Army USA Central Territory in Chicago

REPORTS TO : Site Director

PAY GRADE : 205

PAY RANGE : $21.81-$26.17

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Safety
   • Demonstrates safety practices.
   • Provides adequate supervision.
   • Provides safety instruction.
2. Health
   • Maintains a healthy classroom environment.
   • Plans and implements activities that promote personal health.
   • Plans and implements activities that promote sound nutrition.
   • Offers a choice of learning center activities for at least sixty minutes each day.
3. Physical
   • Plans and implements activities that promote the physical development of each child.
   • Maintains an environment conducive to the development of physical skills.
4. Cognitive
   • Plans and implements activities that promote questioning, probing exploration, and problem-solving.
5. Classification
   • Seriation
   • Number
   • Spatial relations
   • Representation
   • Time
   • Communication
6. Promotes children's listening skills.
   • Promotes clear articulation and language production.
   • Promotes adult-child communication.
   • Promotes child-child communication.
7. Creative
   • Supplies equipment and materials that encourage creativity.
   • Encourages innovative uses of materials and divergent thinking.
8. 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.
9. Social
   • Plans and implements activities that develop awareness of feelings and emotions.
   • Capitalizes on spontaneous occurrences of empathy and displays of feelings and emotions throughout the day.
   • Serves as a role model.
10. 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, recognizing 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. Professionalism
    • Maintains a professional attitude.
    • Keeps abreast of early childhood education practices.
14. Other Duties
    • All other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE

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

COMPETENCIES

• 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.
• Some knowledge of social service programs helpful.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.