Teacher Job at Salvation Army ARC in Chicago

Overview

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Base pay range

$21.81/hr - $26.17/hr

Position details

Job 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 and sound nutrition.
• Learning Environment: Maintains learning environment; plans and implements activities that promote interest in learning with at least sixty minutes of center activity daily.
• Physical: Plans and implements activities that promote physical development; 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 frameworks (classification, seriation, number, spatial relations, representation, time).
• Communication: Promotes listening, clear articulation and language production; promotes adult-child and 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 CAR; summarizes skills twice per year on COR; plans activities to maximize opportunities for success; provides positive feedback to children when appropriate.
• Social: Develops awareness of feelings and emotions; serves as a role model; capitalizes on spontaneous empathy throughout the day.
• Guidance: Maintains a preventive discipline environment; enforces consistent classroom discipline; sets and enforces appropriate limits; maintains positive classroom control; organizes smooth transitions.
• Families: Involves parents in the classroom and in extending the program to the home; shares progress with parents; helps plan in-home activities; conducts home visits in specified months; acts as liaison between components and parents.
• Program Management: Uses diverse resources; plans classroom programs in a timely manner; completes weekly/daily lesson plans; submits records and reports when due; maintains accurate attendance and food counts; coordinates with program resources; ensures team cooperation; supervises assistant teachers and aides.
• Professionalism: Maintains a professional attitude and keeps current with early childhood education practices.
• Other Duties: Performs all other duties as assigned.

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education.
• One year experience teaching in a preschool setting.

Competencies

• Willing to promote the mission of The Salvation Army.
• Positive attitude and flexibility in changing situations.
• Ability to anticipate and respond to the needs of children.
• Initiative and self-starting ability.
• Attention to detail.
• Knowledge of social service programs is helpful.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.

Equal Opportunity

The Salvation Army is an Equal Opportunity Employer Minority/Female/Veterans/Disabled. Applicants who are back-to-work, U.S. Veterans, people with disabilities, and/or people impacted by the justice system are encouraged to apply.

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Education and Training

Industries

• Education Administration Programs