Immediately Need Associate Preschool Teacher - Head Start in Salem, OR
Job title: Associate Preschool Teacher - Head Start
Company: Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action Agency
Job description: The Head Start Associate Teacher works with children to promote their social-emotional, physical, cognitive and language development growth. The person in this position will also work to support parents by providing meetings, tools, resources and opportunities to practice the skills and activities with their child.
Candidates must submit applications by 10/06/23 to be considered for first-round interviews.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
- High school diploma or General Education Degree (GED)
- Pre-School Certificate or CDA.
- Enrollment in an Early Childhood Degree Program.
- 30 credits in Early Childhood Education.
- Two years of experience in early childhood programs.
- The ability to complete an Associate's degree in Early Childhood Education within 3 years of hire.
- Successful registration with the Office of Child Care's Central Background Registry.
- Candidate must pass pre-employment physical.
- First Aid/CPR certification and Food Handler's Card, or ability to obtain.
- Driver qualifications not required for this position.
- Basic proficiencies in computers, including MS Office (Outlook, Word, Teams, Excel) are required.
- Ability to work efficiently to accomplish tasks, and highly organized for follow-up to meet schedules and deadlines.
Bilingual English-Spanish capabilities may be required depending on the needs of the program. To qualify as bilingual, staff must possess demonstrated abilities to speak, write, and read fluently in Spanish and English and pass a bilingual test. *Bilingual staff may receive a pay differential based on HS Program language needs.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive.
Classroom (50%)
- Records children's daily attendance, working with site team to determine the cause of absences.
- Provides for the development of children's cognitive, physical, social-emotional and language skills through implementation of curriculum, lesson planning and individualization.
- Conducts and records child observations to utilize in setting goals, individualizing and creating assessments.
- Creates lesson plans utilizing a variety of curriculum to address children's individual goals, taking into account each child's characteristics, strengths, and needs.
- Works with classroom team during pre-service, to set up classroom environment, and maintain the environment by regularly changing/rotating materials, supplies and props, utilizing the Creative Curriculum, and the Monthly Environment Checklist.
- Prepares materials, activities, and projects for class.
- Participates in family style meals, taking USDA required meal counts, and leading conversation at the table to enhance the social and emotional growth of children.
- Conducts, in the classroom, monthly emergency drills to prepare children and staff for fires, earthquakes, and lockdown situations.
- Effectively uses the ChildPlus and Teaching Strategies Gold databases to enter or obtain information.
- Completes home visits and parent-teacher conferences as required.
- Completes Progress Checkpoints for child assessment, using information obtained from child observations. Shares information with program administration and parents.
- Writes an article for parent newsletter each month.
- Uses office time efficiently to make and receive parent phone calls, order supplies, preparing children's work to go home, preparing materials for activities, and other office work as needed.
- Verifies and submits weekly Meal Counts and Attendance forms.
- Attends a variety of classes, workshops, seminars, pre-service training and other Head Start Teacher trainings, and keeps current on developments in early childhood education, and developmentally appropriate practices.
- Attends a variety of meetings including individual reflection meetings, region meetings, site team meetings, debriefing after observations, and other meetings as necessary.
- Attends IFSP meetings or Triage meetings when necessary to support children with social-emotional or developmental concerns.
- Supports parents as children transition to and from the program through a variety of transition activities.
- Provides regular opportunities for parent participation by training parents who volunteer in the classroom.
- Participates in planning for and implementing monthly parent meetings.
- Required to frequently reach with hands and arms; regularly required to climb or balance; occasionally required to stand; walk; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- Regularly lift and/or move 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Mostly indoor classroom and bus riding environment.
- Frequent outdoor supervision of children and monitoring pick up/drop off.
- Occasional exposure to cleaning chemicals, creative substances such as paints.
- Occasional exposure to body fluids/biohazards (such as saliva, vomit and urine.)
MWVCAA is committed to promoting and achieving diversity, equity and inclusion with employees and with those we serve. The agency strives to be an employer of choice with a vision for all people to be respected for their infinite worth, and supported to envision and reach a positive future.
MWVCAA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, veterans, and people with disabilities or any other protected category. We welcome all people to join us in achieving our Mission. If you require any assistance in the application process, or reasonable accommodations to perform the essential duties of the position, please notify a member of our team at (503) 585-6232.
**This is a partial list of essential duties and responsibilities. To review the full job description, please apply at mwvcaa.org/careers/.
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Expected salary: $20.88 per hour
Location: Salem, OR
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