Preschool Teacher & Teaching Assistant Apply
Full job description
We are recruiting and hiring qualified Preschool Teachers, Aids, and Assistants to prepare small children for kindergarten by easing them into organized education. You will teach them important elements that they will encounter soon after they enter school life. A preschool teacher must have a great love and patience for children. Qualifications needed to teach them effectively include knowledge of best practices and preschool educational methods as well as the ability to engage them and earn their trust and attention. The goal is to contribute to the healthy mental and emotional development of the child so they can more easily acclimate in the next level of education.
Responsibilities
Salary: $16.00 - $18.00 per hour
Benefits:
Responsibilities
- Develop a careful and creative program suitable for preschool children.
- Employ a variety of educational techniques (storytelling, educational play, media etc.) to teach children.
- Observe each child to help them improve their social competencies and build self-esteem.
- Encourage children to interact with each other and resolve occasional arguments,
- Guide children to develop their artistic and practical capabilities through a carefully constructed curriculum (identify shapes, numbers or colors, do crafts etc.)
- Organize nap and snack hours and supervise children to ensure they are safe at all times
- Track childrens progress and know how to communicate appropriately.
- Communicate with parents to understand the childrens background and needs.
- Collaborate with other educators.
- Maintain a clean and tidy classroom consistent with health and safety standards.
- Proven experience as a Preschool Teacher, Aid or Assistant
- Excellent understanding of the principles of child development and preschool educational methods
- Familiarity with safety and sanitation guidelines for classrooms
- Excellent communication and instructional skills
- Ability to act as mediator between children
- Cool-tempered, friendly and reliable
- Balance between a creative mind and a practical acumen
- Willing to receive certification in child CPR
Salary: $16.00 - $18.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Flexible schedule
- Some of the holidays - Paid
- 10 Hours Pre- Service Training/ Certification - Paid
- Ongoing Professional development Trainings - Paid
- CPR & First Aid, paid certification - Paid
- Monday to Friday
- High school or equivalent (Preferred)
- CDA preferred
- CPR & First Aid Training, preferred
- Teaching: 1 year (Preferred)
- Childcare: 1 year (Preferred)
To apply call: 804-737-7575, or e mail: whiteoakecc@comcast.net or simply fill out the form and one of our directors will contact you as soon as possible.
