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BROAD FUNCTION:
To teach the childcare classes and direct the assistants in their classroom activities;
to ensure safe and age appropriate activities in the childcare rooms; to provide reports and information to the Childcare Director.
RESPONSIBILITY AND AUTHORITY:
The childcare teacher will work with the HLA Assistant Director to:
1. Create a Christian environment for the children and coworkers.
2. Develop curriculum and activities age appropriate to the classroom following the HLA outline
3. Develop and maintain supportive relationships with families.
4. Participate with children in prayers, songs and interact with children during free time; (join in play) and greet children.
5. Develop a cleaning routine throughout the day that keeps all the interactive areas sanitary and safe
6. Continue ongoing training in issues of childcare and development.
7. Comply with operating licensing policies and use approved discipline methods and redirecting techniques appropriately.
8. Ensure compliance of the daily schedule and room conditions with licensing requirements.
9. Plan and assist with outside activities and group activities and attend staff meetings.
10. Prepare documentation and behavior intervention plans as needed.
11. Maintain communication with parents and provide programs to involve families in the classroom, including regular intervals of both checking and responding to classroom email.
12. Provide physical care and cleaning of young children as required.
13. Care for resources and academy equipment responsibly.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
In addition to the job description, all staff members at Harmony Learning Academy must be able to perform these essential functions in order to maintain employment with HLA:
• Able to observe, see, hear and respond to children’s needs, emergencies and conflicts that might occur in a classroom, on the playground, and in the bathroom and common areas.
• Able to lift 30 pounds from floor to a waist high table 10-15 times daily.
• Able to crouch to a child’s height, maintain eye contact at the child’s level, sit on the floor and get up from the floor easily.
• Able to stand tall enough to reach children on the highest piece of equipment.
• Able to determine cognitive, social and physical needs of children and communicate in writing and verbally in the English language at a level that 90 to 95% of parents and other staff can understand and respond.
• Able to handle the stress, tension and exasperation that contact with many children and parents can bring every day.
• Able to walk a minimum of one mile at once and walk for extended periods of time (ten or more blocks / 30 minutes or more).
• Able to push strollers and large buggies ten or more blocks at a time.
• Able to run to a child in an emergency.
• Able to participate in all daily activities including water activities, singing and reading stories.
• Able to move at a fast pace, quickly responding to a situation, jumping into participation in an activity, or to assist other staff.
• Able to emotionally handle the daily stressors and situations that may occur.
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