Job Definition: A Substitute Teacher or Sub supervises students if their regular teacher is unable to lead the class. Their duties include managing classroom behavior, quickly interpreting lesson plans, and creating reports to inform the students' permanent teachers of their success.
This is an needed position.
Essential Functions/Responsibilities:
To maintain our goals and objectives of the preschool:
- Ensure the wellness, health, and safety of children daily by greeting each child when they arrive at the preschool
- Assist daily classroom and outdoor activities
- Assists children to use bathroom facilities safely by supervising the essential group visits to the bathroom and training in proper hygiene habits
- Assists at mealtime by eating with the children
- Assists group teacher in maintaining a safe, clean environment for the children by cleaning the Preschool thoroughly with other staff members
- Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local licensing requirements by recording attendance and required reports pertaining to the group when the teacher is absent
- Maintain technical knowledge by attending staff meetings, workshops, conferences, and regular in-service training
- Contributes to team effort by completing related tasks as needed
- Focus on positive behavior: use of loud, demeaning language is forbidden by any adult
Physical and Mental Demands:
- 33% Pushing, pulling, bending, squatting, reaching, climbing stairs
- 50 % Sitting
- 100 % Writing, speaking, and understanding English
- 100 % Standing unassisted, grasping, walking, finger manipulation, and hand controls
- 100 % Visual acuity, hearing, memory, independent judgment, relating to others, and manual dexterity
- Lift up to 25 lbs.
Hazards: The hazards in the course of work performed:
- This position is medium in nature
- This position is classified as to exposure category II concerning occupational exposure to Hepatitis B and HIV as defined by the Department of Health and Human Services
- The employee is required to use bleach solution and disinfectants for sanitizing purposes and latex gloves for any exposure unexpected to blood or bodily fluid discharge
- Classified as category II because of routine tasks involving exposure to blood, bodily fluids, or tissues
- Tasks may include:
- physical contact with sick children,
- unplanned contact with children during emergency situations, and
- unplanned contact with contaminated objects.
EOE