Daycare Preschool Teacher Job at Kids Future Day Care Center, Chicago, IL

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  • Kids Future Day Care Center
  • Chicago, IL

Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Benefits/Perks

  • Competitive Compensations
  • Career Advancement Opportunities
  • Great Work Environment

We are seeking an experienced and energetic Daycare Teacher to join our team! You will be responsible for encouraging children’s intellectual, psychological, and physical growth. The ideal candidate is nurturing, patient, and creative. If you have a passion for helping children learn and reach their potential, we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities: 

  • Plan games and activities that are developmentally appropriate
  • Design a daily and weekly schedule
  • Provide basic care and caregiving activities
  • Evaluate children to ensure they are reaching developmental milestones
  • Communicate with parents and update them on their children’s activities
  • Act as part of a team in creating an environment where children can learn and implementing group lesson plans. • Record observations, write lesson plans 
  • Conduct screenings and assessment and reporting of outcomes for assigned children within the mandated timelines. • Communicate with parents/families and report child progress daily and through scheduled Parent-teacher conferences 
  • Initiate referrals for children with special needs, complete yearly self and peer evaluations.
  • Promote an atmosphere of teamwork where staff, parents and children interact positively with each other. 
  • Provides functional training and guidance to staff, interns, substitutes and volunteers assigned to the classroom. 
  • Perform other general duties as assigned by the director of the center. 
  • Ensures that Assistant Teachers are kept updated in all matters concerning the classroom and program, i.e. 
  • Reported family changes in schedules and educational development opportunities as required by the center. 
  • Complete a total of 20 professional development hours per year, 16 of which needs to be Gateways Registry-approved trainings.
  • Participate in ongoing development and evaluation of center’s goal and objectives. 
  • Maintain safety, cleanliness and organization of the classroom and everything and everyone in it. 
  • In accordance with our team philosophy, the person filling this position may occasionally be required to carry out or assist with other tasks in addition to the duties listed on this job description. 
  • Staff must believe in and act in accordance with the center’s mission statements. 
  • Must be physically able to perform the job of a preschool teacher (be able to lift children and/or equipment up to 40lbs, able to bend, sit and stand for extended periods of time). Must have a warm, supportive attitude toward children, must be reliable, must be flexible in receiving assignments or adapting to changes in the program, must be willing to accept supervision in order to improve work performance, must be willing to perform other duties as required. 
  • Teachers will be given a minimum of one hour of uninterrupted planning time per week to complete necessary paperwork, lessons, enter documentation and meet with fellow tam staff to plan coordinate and discuss children’s progress. 

Qualifications

  • Previous experience as a daycare teacher or childcare provider
  • Strong understanding of child development
  • Patient, kind, and nurturing
  • Excellent organizational, communication, and time management skills
  • Associates degree in education, or completion of credentialing program to acquire CDA, with at least 1 year of child development/early childhood/education experience. 
  • Bachelor’s degree in education and/or IL early childhood teaching license preferred. 
  • At least 19 years of age, clear background check and good health record. 

Job Tags

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