Education
Preschool Teacher or Assistant
Bethany Busy Bee Early Learning Center
Posted: 07/27/2024
Salary/Range: $18 - $22 per hour
Location
Centennial
Description:
Reports to:
Bethany Busy Bee Director
Position Description:
To show the love of Christ by providing a safe, warm, loving environment where children can explore, learn, and be challenged within their capabilities.
Requirements:
- Have a personal walk with Jesus
- Have a servant’s heart
- Have a good rapport and enjoy working with children
- Provide the documentation required to meet one of the group leader qualifications set by social services
- Desire continual learning
- Able to efficiently carry out her planned lesson
- Flexible to willingly insert unplanned learning opportunities
- Must be a little bit silly, playful, kind, compassionate
- Slow to anger
- Reliable and dependable
- Pleasant, approachable, and easy to get along with
- Shows evidence of emotional maturity and stability
- Physically capable of working with children
- Able to deal with a child’s temperaments in an effective, yet loving way.
Responsibilities:
- To plan a program that meets the emotional, physical, intellectual, and social needs of both individuals and the group.
- Adjust the program to the individual needs of the child in regard to interest, talents, handicaps, and individual style of learning.
- Helps the children to understand their role as members of a larger, social group.
- Observes, records, and reports significant individual and group behavior to show progress over the course of the school year using standardized tools such as TS GOLD.
- Treat children with love, patience, dignity, and respect.
- Maintains good communication with parents through the writing of a weekly email, monthly newsletter, the home visit, progress report and/or parent conference.
- Strives to enhance the learning environment of the classroom through the use of room arrangement, bulletin boards, centers, and other decor.
- Attends weekly staff meetings.
- Washes the tables (and maybe chairs) with bleach water every day before and after snack and after the children leave.
- Keeps the toys and other surfaces disinfected daily.
- Helps with book orders, special events, etc.
- Makes sure children are properly attired for outdoor play.
- Provides children access and assistance with the restroom as needed.
- Children are always in line of sight and are counted at transitions.
- Integrates faith in routine of the classroom with a bible story, prayer time, music, dramatic play, etc.
- Fosters communication between school and home on a daily basis – sharing information with the parents, including greeting and departing as well as email and other forms of communication.
- The teacher is attentive to the needs of the child and takes time to provide quality interaction with each child in the classroom.
- Provides each child with a year-end book including photos of the highlights of each child’s school year.
- Other duties as assigned.
We believe that each child learns by example (Deuteronomy 6:7). Teachers of young children should hold a biblical worldview and live a Christian lifestyle in their home, school, and community.
To Apply: Joyce Bertram or Trish Perkins