childcare/Teachers

Job Purpose: Nurtures children by developing and providing educational programs; keeping parents informed. Duties: * Stimulates emotional, intellectual, and social growth of children by developing and directing educational programs and activities tailored to assigned class. * Provides safe environment by maintaining orderly, clean, and appealing facilities; removing known safety hazards. * Encourages children's participation by providing interactive activities. * Informs staff and parents of curriculum by preparing and submitting lesson plans; posting schedules and curriculum outlines. * Keeps parents informed by posting parent information in the classroom; maintaining and sharing records of child's progress, attendance, and behavior. * Encourages development of children's self-control by utilizing classroom management and modeling techniques. * Maintains center's professional status by supervising, training, and evaluating staff and/or field experience students. * Encourages consistency of service by maintaining communications with parents and staff. * Protects families by keeping personal information confidential. * Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; bench marking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies. * Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.