Early Childhood Educator Jobs

Position Summary

This position supports grant goals related to providing high quality early childhood education. Individuals in this role will plan, instruct, and assess young children using an inquiry-based model for teaching and learning. This position is primarily connected to an early childhood classroom with supporting roles in work with pre-service teachers. (See Supplemental Job Information for details).

Job Title

Early Childhood Educator

Classification Job Title

Special Projects Trainer

Full Time/Part Time Position

Full Time

Position Number

EFC10V0032

Requisition Number

23802

Department

YB Child Care Center

Required Qualifications

Substitute of Experience for Education Permitted

No

• Collaborates with staff to develop an emergent curriculum, implement and facilitate inquiry-based teaching and learning practices to support young children, families, and Early Childhood Education students.
• Responsible for working with stakeholders to support high quality early childhood education.

Preferred Qualifications

Supplemental Job Information

• Creates an environment and structure for maintaining classroom order and behavior management.
• Create and maintain classroom NAEYC portfolios.
• Communicate with parents through various means including weekly sheets, emails, speaking, and bi-annual conferences, with particular emphasis on children’s growth.
• Mentor and coach pre-service teachers based on research-based practices.
• Teaches to meet standards in social emotional, physical, language, social studies, and the arts domains, in alignment with Department of Education requirements and standards.
• Applies pedagogical and theoretical knowledge of early childhood education to engage in teacher inquiry in order to inform learning that is shared within the professional learning community.
• Leads children in the classroom using project-based learning. Collaborates with co-teacher to plan and implement learning experiences.
• Demonstrates a strong working knowledge of child development and early childhood learning that informs the implementation of developmentally appropriate practices in the daily life of the classroom.
• Uses authentic assessment strategies including photography, anecdotal records, children’s words, and artifacts as a means to analyze student learning, and make instructional decisions.
• Create and manage a portfolio for every child in the classroom as a form of authentic assessment to demonstrate children’s learning.
• Creates and displays children’s learning through documentation panels.

Additional Documents Required

Campus

Ybor City

Location

20 - Ybor City Campus

Pay Rate

$50,382.01

Pay Basis

Annually

Job Open Date

07/19/2023

Job Close Date

Open Until Filled

Yes

Responsible Hiring Manager

Elyse Ledford

Job Category

Professional/Managerial

Job Type

Full-Time Temporary