Lead Associate Techer

**Job Title:** Lead Teacher **Department:** Crawford Early Learning Center **Reports To:** Early Learning Center Director **FLSA Status:** *Non-Exempt* **Hours:** *Full-Time* **Summary** Responsible for the academic, social-emotional growth and development of all children in their care, which may include infants, toddlers and/or preschool age children, developing partnerships with parents/caregivers to engage and encourage participation in program, and assuring compliance with licensing and other contracting agencies. **Supervisory Responsibilities** None **Essential Duties and Responsibilities** **Leadership Responsibilities** - Orientates and mentors new teachers in their classroom - Works with the Center Director to schedule breaks, planning time, team meetings, and multidisciplinary meetings - Assist in delivery of training to staff and child development training to parents when needed - Works with the Center Director to prioritize ordering of materials and equipment for the classroom - Assists the leadership team to plan and implement the parent engagement activities in the center including Curriculum Nights, parent orientations, parent teacher conferences, home visits, and other opportunities to engage families in their child’s education - Works with the therapist on implementing classroom strategies, coordinate therapeutic activities for the classroom, and attend collaboration meetings as appropriate **Instructional** - Creates weekly lesson plans, to assure they are meeting the fidelity requirements of the curriculum and are individualized appropriately - Includes updates for IFSPs and IEPs to be included in the review process - Attends IEF and IFSP meetings - Responsible for recording and maintaining a child portfolio to include information required to document the growth and development of children - Provides a developmentally appropriate classroom environment that reflects active learning and growth - Performs on-going developmental assessments - Completes daily health checks regarding the overall well-being of the children - Evaluates and improves the physical environment in the classroom to create opportunities to meet the changing needs of the developing child - Provides responsive care to all children by adapting daily care giving routines and plans to the interests and needs of the individual child and small groups - Works with the families to encourages on-going family participation - Conducts home visits - Demonstrates cultural competency and respect for each child’s background by incorporating linguistic and familial values and beliefs into the childcare program and lesson plans - Conducts on-going parent conferences and assists families with children’s transitions from infant to toddler to preschool to kindergarten - Conducts supervision, training and guidance of Associate Teachers and Program Aides to include team meetings - Participates is multidisciplinary meetings as needed for families - Reports staffing, attendance, and classroom concerns to Center Director - Addresses family concerns to Center Director - Participates in on-going professional development opportunities - Maintains at a minimum of 10 clock hours of annual training (July through June) - Ability to establish cooperative working relationships with residents, colleagues and volunteers - Attends all required staff and parent meetings and activities - Attends all required training opportunities as provided by the childcare center - Communicates effectively, both orally and in writing - All other duties as assigned **Education and/or Experience** - Bachelor’s degree with a major in early childhood education (birth-age 4) OR - Bachelor’s degree with specialization and professional preparation requirement completed for the early childhood education certification OR - The equivalency to an early childhood baccalaureate degree, defined as a baccalaureate degree in any discipline with at least 36 credits in early childhood education, child develop…