Early Child Care - Teacher

**Position Summary:** Responsible for providing developmentally appropriate programs, lesson planning, and helping children with social skills. Maintaining the classroom environment, supervising children, parent-teacher conference, and supervision of classroom volunteers. **Essential Functions:** - Ability to create and implement lesson plans - Capability to understand and carry out written and oral direction - Working with children one-on-one and in groups, supervising activities. - Consistently planning innovative ways of keeping children actively engaged. - Addressing the physical needs of the individual child or group. - Assist students in learning their numbers, letters, shapes, and colors. - Must be able to be mobile, sit, sitting on the floor, and move around the classroom. - Follow all Health and Safety regulations - Other duties needed to help drive our vision, and fulfill our mission, of “The Poor should never be treated poorly”. **Education/Experience:** - High school diploma or GED **Required**. - Teacher certification, TECE 1 & 2, or equivalent college courses **Required** - Equivalent work experience as an Early Childhood Teacher **PREFERRED** **Qualifications and Skills:** - Ability to demonstrate empathy, warmth, compassion, genuineness, and positive regard for all children, parents, and co-workers. - Capability to work independently - Ability to use plain and simple language to communicate. - Strong verbal and written communication skills - Works well under pressure. - Willingness to consent to and the ability to pass a criminal background check, and drug screening. **Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)** The organization complies with all applicable federal, state, and local employment laws. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected category under Delaware or federal law. **At-Will Employment** Employment with the organization is **at-will**, meaning that either the employee or the employer may terminate employment at any time, with or without cause or notice. **Background & Drug Screening Disclosure** Continued employment is contingent upon successfully passing all required screenings, including state and federal criminal background checks, drug testing, and FBI fingerprinting.