Infant/ Toddler Teacher
Status: Non-Exempt
Position: Full-time
Education requirements:
- Child Growth and Development (3 units)
- ECE Curriculum (3 units)
- Principles & Practices (3 units)
- Child, Family & Community (3 units)
- Infant & Toddler Studies (6 units)
Permit:
Teacher permit or willing to cover the cost of obtaining a permit
Definition:
Under the guidance of the Site Supervisor, the Teacher provides quality primary care giving for infants or toddlers in a safe and supervised early care and educational setting; Promotes the social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development children enrolled in the program; develops individual goals for children; provides screenings and on-going assessment; Follows all agency policies, procedures and other applicable Federal and State regulations to successfully accomplish the Program goals and objectives.
Responsibilities include:
- Participates in the overall agency quality improvement process Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge.
- Ensure that compliance with Title 22 and Title 5.
- Maintains an open, friendly, and cooperative relationship with each child and family.
- Encourages each child's family to be actively involved in their child’s development.
- Promotes parent-child bonding and nurturing parent-child relationships.
- Promotes feelings of security and trust in infants and toddlers.
- Talks, sings, and reads to children frequently.
- Tends to children's personal hygiene needs, remaining especially attentive to them during routines such as diaper changing, cleaning, feeding, and changing soiled or wet clothes.
- Participate in regularly scheduled team meetings to plan for and deliver collaborative services across all components.
- Respects children's curiosity about each other; ensures that children treat each other gently.
- Organizes each day's activities to provide children with a variety of experiences and opportunities that allow them to develop curiosity, initiative, problem-solving skills, and creativity, as well as a sense of self and a feeling of belonging to the group.
- Screenings with parental engagement.
- Ongoing child outcome data analysis.
- Individualized plans for all children in care.
- Parent conferences,
- Maintains a positive, calm attitude and a pleasant, soothing voice, and models this attitude and voice for parents and others working or volunteering in the program.
- Maintains a cooperative attitude of working together with other I/T teachers, the center director, the I/T Programs director, parents, and volunteers in planning and implementing activities for the program/classroom.
- Protects all children from physical punishment or verbal abuse by anyone in any program activity, and immediately reports any such incident to the center director or person in charge.
- Assists the family advocate in teaching and modeling developmentally appropriate practices for parents in caring for their young children.
- Observes children to detect signs of illness, injury, abuse, neglect, emotional disturbance, or other special needs, and reports these signs immediately to the center director or person in charge.
- Ability to apply Early Childhood Development theory in daily activities and adapt to the individual needs of infants and toddlers.
- Develop and utilize integrated curriculum plans, which reflect mandated elements and components, parental and cultural influences, and promote the social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development of infants and toddlers.
- Implement developmentally appropriate curriculum into classroom activities to address and meet individual goals for infants and toddlers as identified in their individualized education plans.
- Assess individual and group needs, attending to differences in needs and disability issues, specific interests, strengths, and concerns.
- Prepare classroom materials to support developmentally appropriate curriculum plans; create and change learning centers and materials as needed.
- Communicate regularly with parents, regarding each infant and toddler's progress.
- Conduct the required parent/teacher conferences and home visits for assessment and support and to share information on classroom progress and educational strategies at the center and home.
- Document baselines, ongoing assessments according to the early learning Program.
- Document all significant classroom issues, parent contacts and conferences.
- Maintains confidentiality of records and information of staff and families.
- Conduct daily meal count.
- Check infants and toddlers sign in sheets daily
- Perform any duties as needed to meet the requirements and needs of the Program.
Education and Qualifications:
- The successful candidate must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and ability required.
- Must have an AA in ECE or related field related to early childhood education and coursework equivalent to a major relating to early childhood education, with experience working with infants and toddlers.
- 6 units in Infant/Toddler units (if course has not been completed, it must be completed within the first year of employment).
- The individual must possess a current Child Development Teacher’s permit.
- Preferred: BA/BS in Early Childhood Education (ECE) or related field
- Training and experience in the principles of child health, safety, and nutrition.
- Experience in infant and toddler assessments, Infant/Toddler Curriculum and 2 years' experience working with infants and toddlers with diverse needs in a center-based program which includes children with disabilities.
- Must work as a team player.
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred
Other Considerations:
- The infant/toddler teacher must be able to perform light physical work and can lift and carry children weighing about 14 to 30 pounds. The teacher must bend, crouch, lift, kneel and complete other light physical activity as they address the student's needs. The person in this position is responsible for maintaining performance under pressure and handling stress in an acceptable way to others and the organization. Help to create working conditions that are relatively free from unpleasant environmental conditions. Successful completion of pre-employment physical and TB Risk Assessment
- Successful completion of background check including DOJ, FBI, & CACI
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required. This position description is subject to modification.
Child Development employees must be able to perform the following essential functions:
- Observe, see, hear, and respond to infant and toddlers' needs, emergencies and conflicts that may occur in the child development center or on the playground.
- Be aware of the cognitive, social, and physical needs of infants and toddlers.
- Communicate verbally and writing in English/Spanish to the degree that child, parents, and other staff members can understand and respond.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or other protected status. EEOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $19.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
Work Location: In person