JCHS Job Description for: ASSISTANT TEACHER

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Jefferson County Head Start / CESA 2

POSITION DESCRIPTION

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Job Description: The Assistant Teacher works collaboratively with classroom staff to provide educational experiences appropriate to the growth and development of each of the three to five year old children assigned to his/her care, while supporting the individual goals of the children and the overall goal of social competency, providing consistency in activities at the center and if necessary, on the Head Start bus.

Responsibilities:

  1. Mandated to report child abuse and neglect.
  2. Follows Wisconsin Licensing Rules for Group Daycare Centers, Federal Head Start Performance Standards, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Child and Adult Care Food Program, and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation Regulations.
  3. Maintains Confidentiality.
  4. Model appropriate table manners, nutrition, hygiene practices and social actions by eating luch with the children.
  5. Assist in providing a safe, orderly and sanitary environment.
  6. Assist children with daily routines and personal care activities, such as toileitng, tooth burshing, diapering as necessary, according to agency policies and procedures.
  7. Escort children who follow individual and/or transportation plans.
  8. Assist in providing activities that intergrate the eduational aspects of all Head Start service areas into the children's education program, including health, dental health, safety, nutrition, and child abuse and neglect prevention.
  9. Follow and comply with all safety and work rules and regulations. Maintain departmental housekeeping standards.

Positive Family Interaction:

  1. Assist in providing a Head Start orientation program to parents and if necessary participates in the training of community volunteers.
  2. Work with agency staff assigned to the classroom, prepare classroom environment for children and families according to lesson plans.
  3. Assist in recruiting and providing assistance to parent volunteers for the center. Advise parents of classroom and Head Start activities, events and opportunities.
  4. Model respect for diversity of children and adults.
  5. Prepares weekly newsletter with input from Lead Teacher. Follow established deadlines for submission.
  6. Assist the Lead Teacher in making a minimum of two required home visits to each child’s home and two parent/teacher conferences each program year.
  7. Communicate appropriately with parents through direct contact, in child’s notebooks, with phone conversations, through newsletters, and individually in the classroom.
  8. At the discretion of the Lead Teacher, discuss children’s progress.

Support Children’s Activities and Environment:

  1. Assist in providing a consistent and developmentally appropriate daily schedule.
  2. Observe and record children’s progress and behaviors using the Child Observation Form to assist the Lead Teacher in planning.
  3. Assist in arrangement of the classroom.
  4. Support the Lead Teacher during large group times by managing the behavior of individual children.
  5. Assist children in managing their behavior and in developing problem solving skills. Use the Positive Guidance Policy consistently.
  6. Implement Individual Behavior Plans with direction from the Lead Teacher.
  7. If necessary, participate with appropriate agency staff and other authorized individuals to provide input regarding children’s strengths, needs and abilities.
  8. Participate in Annual Self Assessment, Outcomes Measurement Analysis of Data and Program Planning.
  9. Uphold all agency policies and procedures and exhibit the appropriate cooperative attitude toward agency staff, enrolled children and their families, and all volunteers and community partners.
  10. Make progress in completing formalized Professional Development Plan.
  11. Administer the agency adopted developmental screening tool (DIAL-3) with each enrolled child according to screening procedures within forty five (45) days of child’s first day of attendance.
  12. Complete all require agency paperwork. Monthly attendance records, monthly volunteer records (In-Kind), Group Daycare Center Safety Checklist, Monthly Fire Safety Plan and Emergency Response Checklist and Bi-Annual Heights and Weights information.
  13. Attend regularly scheduled staff meetings and in-services.
  14. Administers NRS testing of bilingual children.
  15. Other responsibilities and duties as required.

Qualifications:

  1. Must be eighteen (18) years of age.
  2. At a minimum High School Diploma/GED.
  3. Must have Introduction to Childcare Profession upon employment and work on obtaining Skills and Strategies for Childcare Teacher.
  4. Able to move quickly in response to an emergency, sit on the floor and child size furniture.
  5. Must be able to participate in children’s physical activities as well as model interactions that guide children’s safe, active indoor and outdoor play.
  6. Physical and TB test within thirty (30) days of hire.
  7. First Aid/CPR certification within three (3) months of hire.
  8. Position contingent upon Wisconsin Background information disclosure check.
  9. Valid driver’s license.

Job description is subject to change based upon receipt of new Federal regulations and/or additional program requirements.

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