Preschool Teachers Jobs

Summary

Instruct preschool-aged children in activities designed to promote social, physical, and intellectual growth needed for primary school in preschool, day care center, or other child development facility. May be required to hold State certification.

Duties

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

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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