Lead Teacher
Hybrid-based
ONET: 25-2011.00
2
Years
55
Skills
329h
Related instructions
8000h
On-the-job training
Classroom instruction topics
- Health & Safety Orientation - Maine Roads to Quality
- Pediatric First Aid and CPR - American Red Cross
- Observation and Assessment in Early Childhood
- Education of Young Children with Special Needs
- Child Guidance and Discipline
- Curriculum in Early Childhood Education (Birth to age 3)
- Curriculum in Early Childhood Education (Ages 3-8)
- Management Professional and Personal Development in Early Childhood Education
- Teaching, Learning, and Technology
On-the-job training
- Monthly OJT Hours
- Relationships and Classroom Community
- Connects with families and children to make them feel welcomed, safe and respected ensuring individual student needs are accounted for
- Provides and supports staff in communicating clear and consistent behavioral expectations and minimizes transitions by designing classroom organization through intentional preparation and lesson planning
- Plans, supervises and facilitates children’s involvement in all learning environment’s using a variety of modalities
- Work under the guidance and direction of the Program Director to ensure growth in the area of child development through data and observations
- Promotes and maintains a positive climate and assures that all staff are responsive to child perspectives
- Provides frequent opportunities to engage in adult child interactions, encouraging self- help skills, ensuring staff participation promotes engagement and facilitates peer interactions during family style meals
- Assessment and Curriculum
- Actively participates in curriculum planning sessions to develop clear learning objectives for optimal learning and designing unit lesson plans and supports teaching staff with professional development objectives
- Share observations and provide ongoing documentation and record keeping on children as requested by Program Director
- Recommends best practices to Director and designs lessons emphasizing children’s interests, culture, School Readiness goals, State Guidelines, physical activity recommendations.
- Embraces, promotes, directs and participates in bi-lingual curriculum delivery outlined by the facility and provides support for staff as needed
- Promote children's love of language, culture, learning, and playing alongside each other to prepare for success in school maintaining and supervising a safe, caring, and respectful environment where children are encouraged by adults and peers to express themselves
- Health and Nutrition
- In partnership with the Program Director, will work with assistant teacher to ensure timely implementation and review results of child screenings within required timeframes.
- Completes required meals and attendance records and submits to Director
- Initiates and engages in reflective discussions with families related to health and developmental status of child to promote timely health care.
- Assures on-going follow-up and related documentation in a timely manner related to unmet health outcomes and reports outcomes to Director
- Models and promotes healthy eating habits and tooth brushing and provides staff with support
- Models and promotes physical activity by demonstrating being physically active and provides staff with support
- Assures proper cleaning, sanitation and disinfection procedures are followed by staff to promote healthy habits within the classroom environment and reports any concerns to Program Director
- Partners with families supporting parent-child relationships and promoting parents as first and most important teachers
- Plans, initiates and participates in regularly planned outreach to parents for involvement with curriculum planning
- Chooses curriculum to identify diverse family values, beliefs, faith traditions, cultural influences, family structure and circumstances and modifies curriculum to reflect family values.
- Assures required parent education topics are being addressed through a variety of individual and group strategies through collaboration with other classroom staff and makes plans to follow up as needed
- Engages parents in classroom and individualized curriculum discussion to establish effective home school connection and provides ongoing outreach
- Recognizes need for and supports meaningful and intentional referrals for the child and families agency programs and provides documentation
- Supports families in crisis by identifying options and resources and applying them to intervene when needed in collaboration with the Program Director.
- Program involvement, leadership, advocacy and social connections
- In collaboration with staff and Program Director, facilitate orienting parents and other volunteers, encourage parent participation and visitation in the classroom, attend parent meetings as requested and/or provide childcare
- Actively plans for and facilitates frequent parent participation on child care facility sponsored enrichment activities community events
- Regularly updates and educates parents about child care facility services
- Practice safe working habits and contribute to a safe and peaceable workplace
- With Program Director, assist staff in planning and implementing a daily age-appropriate program that meets the needs of groups of children as well as individuals, providing for their health, safety and education
- Ensure the safety of children at all times. Never leave a child unattended or unsupervised and provide expectations to staff in multiple modalities
- Recognize, document and report signs of illness and other concerns to Program Director and support staff in adhering to protocol
- Supervise staff and work with Program Director in maintaining a clean, safe and developmentally appropriate environment for children
- Documents and communicates to staff and Director to assure required emergency procedures are practiced and communicated with families
- Promotes protective factors to prevent child abuse and neglect; identifies and refers families to the Dept. of Health and Human Services Child Protection Services and maintains up to date records of all referrals
- Contributes to effective program practices and interdisciplinary approaches
- Demonstrate and promote the facility's child development philosophy, plans and policies, and mission, vision, and values to staff and parents
- Facilitates effective, purposeful and respectful team communications while promoting staff input to promote continuous program improvement
- Assist Program Director and supervise staff in orienting parents and other volunteers, encourage parent participation and visitation in the classroom, attend parent meetings as requested and/or provide child care as needed
- Assume all classroom responsibilities in absence of Assistant Teacher
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with Program Director, center staff, parents and community
- Participate in staff or related meetings as requested
- Work cooperatively as a team member, assisting where needed in the center
- Exhibits a positive attitude and a professional, confidential and collaborative approach with supervisor, co-workers, clients, partners and community
- Communicates positively and effectively using appropriate verbal, nonverbal and written messages
- Demonstrates effective and appropriate communication ensuring respect for culture and language
- Promotes community partnerships and initiatives
- Establishes and maintains professional boundaries
- Supports and actively participates in team building and collaboration efforts
- Displays a commitment to continuous professional development and reflective practice
- Assesses self, values and ethics as they impact work with families
- Maintains required certifications
- Completes mandated trainings
- Seeks opportunities for ongoing professional growth; implements to improve practice and share with colleagues as appropriate
- Demonstrates progress toward annual evaluation goals
- Demonstrates Leadership skills
- Collaborates with state leaders, board members, administrators, colleagues, parents and students towards a common goal
- Shares collective knowledge, content, educational resources and tips for success with colleagues as a mentor
- Administers careful due diligence in adopting curriculum, implementing instruction and employing assessments
- Enables diverse and inclusive learning environments
- Guides collective responsibility, school practices, procedures & policies
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