Preschool Teachers Jobs

Summary

We are hiring lead and assistant teachers for our Infant classroom (6 weeks-12 months), Toddler classrooms (12 months-36 months) and in our Primary classrooms (3 years-5 years)
Instruct preschool-aged children in activities designed to promote social, physical, and intellectual growth needed for primary school in a Montessori School. May be required to hold CDA or higher.

Duties

• Identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists.
• Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to children.
• Collaborate with other teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of preschool programs.
• Provide disabled students with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.
• Supervise, evaluate, and plan assignments for teacher assistants and volunteers.
• Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
• Organize and label materials and display students' work in a manner appropriate for their ages and perceptual skills.
• Demonstrate activities to children.
• Attend staff meetings and serve on committees as required.
• Prepare and implement remedial programs for students requiring extra help.
• Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.
• Teach proper eating habits and personal hygiene.
• Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
• Arrange indoor and outdoor space to facilitate creative play, motor-skill activities, and safety.
• Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order.
• Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guests, or other experiential activities and guide students in learning from those activities.
• Assimilate arriving children to the school environment by greeting them, helping them remove outerwear, and selecting activities of interest to them.
• Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
• Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration.
• Perform administrative duties, such as hall and cafeteria monitoring and bus loading and unloading.
• Attend to children's basic needs by feeding them, dressing them, and changing their diapers.
• Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.
• Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
• Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.
• Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.
• Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.
• Administer tests to help determine children's developmental levels, needs, and potential.
• Read books to entire classes or to small groups.
• Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
• Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
• Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and needs, determine their priorities for their children, and suggest ways that they can promote learning and development.
• Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students.
• Serve meals and snacks in accordance with nutritional guidelines.
• Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, and field trips.

Requirements

• Read to students.
• Prepare reports detailing student activities or performance.
• Set up classroom materials or equipment.
• Provide for basic needs of children.
• Discuss problems or issues with supervisors.
• Attend training sessions or professional meetings to develop or maintain professional knowledge.
• Serve on institutional or departmental committees.
• Arrange childcare or educational settings to ensure physical safety of children.
• Display student work.
• Assist students with special educational needs.
• Monitor student behavior, social development, or health.
• Set up classroom materials or equipment.
• Distribute instructional or library materials.
• Plan educational activities.
• Plan educational activities.
• Discuss problems or issues with supervisors.
• Teach life skills.
• Develop instructional objectives.
• Set up classroom materials or equipment.
• Supervise student research or internship work.
• Enforce rules or policies governing student behavior.
• Administer tests to assess educational needs or progress.
• Discuss student progress with parents or guardians.
• Maintain student records.
• Evaluate student work.
• Teach life skills.
• Monitor student performance.
• Provide for basic needs of children.
• Modify teaching methods or materials to accommodate student needs.
• Monitor student behavior, social development, or health.
• Maintain inventories of materials, equipment, or products.
• Develop strategies or programs for students with special needs.
• Evaluate performance of educational staff.
• Plan experiential learning activities.
• Establish rules or policies governing student behavior.
• Collaborate with other teaching professionals to develop educational programs.
• Supervise school or student activities.
• Collaborate with other teaching professionals to develop educational programs.
• Discuss student progress with parents or guardians.
• Apply multiple teaching methods.
• Provide for basic needs of children.
• Order instructional or library materials or equipment.

Nice To Haves

• Data entry software
• Educational board games
• Email software
• Children's educational software
• Sand tables
• Water tables
• Desktop computers
• Microsoft Word
• Compact disk CD players
• Personal computers
• Play structures
• Educational toys
• Compact digital cameras
• Microsoft Excel
• Pegboards
• Microsoft Office
• Emergency first aid kits
• Photocopying equipment
• Toy block sets
• Educational puzzles