Job Summary:
To create a flexible Pre-K program and a class environment favorable to learning and personal growth; to establish effective rapport with students; to motivate students to develop skills, attitudes and knowledge needed to provide a good foundation in accordance with each student’s ability; to establish good relationships with parents and other staff members.
Essential Functions:
1. Creates developmentally appropriate lesson plans that contain required Pre-K activities.
2. Confer with parents or guardians, and administrators in order to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.
3. Maintains a safe, developmentally appropriate, learning environment at all times.
4. Develops and implements lesson plans and instructional materials and provides individual Educational Plans and small group instruction in order to adapt the curriculum to the needs of each student.
5. Attends and implements professional development/training as requested.
6. Selects theme-related field trips and provides supervision of all participants.
7. Supervises students in and out of the classroom activities during the school day.
8. Supervises and assigns duties to the paraprofessionals and classroom volunteers.
9. Conducts screening, ongoing assessments, and enters assessment data for each child as required.
10. Communicates with parents through conferences and other means to discuss students’ progress and interpret the school program.
11.Makes two educational home visits annually to each enrolled child’s family.
12.Conducts two on-site parent-teacher conferences annually with each parent.
13.Adheres to program requirements regarding food service.
14.Identifies student needs and cooperates with other professional staff members in assessing and helping students solve health, attitude, and learning problems.
15.Ensures that good health habits are practiced daily including oral hygiene, i.e. brushing of teeth.
16.Promotes parent involvement in all aspects of the program.
17. Adheres to LARA child care licensing requirements.
Qualifications:
Education: Michigan teaching certificate required. Early Childhood Education (ZA) or Early Childhood-General and Special Education (ZS) endorsement required.
