About Early Learning Academies

Skills

• Love working with children!
• Knowledge or ability to learn early childhood education standards.
• Proactive and team-oriented attitude to create a successful team environment.
• Ability to create a positive learning environment for children.
• Communication skills reflecting professionalism and kindness at all times.

Main Duties

• Plan and implement age-appropriate curriculum according to the curriculum policy.
• Responsible for the basic care needs of each child in the classroom, including assisting with dressing, toileting, tying shoes, regular hand washing, face cleaning, and any other tasks associated with good personal hygiene.
• Responsible for assisting children with social development, including teaching table manners during meals, working with a group of children to achieve goals, teaching them to share, and other activities associated with social and emotional development.
• Ensure your classroom complies with state childcare licensing regulations.
• Provide daily gross motor physical activities with or without equipment or materials indoors and outdoors.
• Complete any required daily paperwork such as child tracking sheets, attendance records, and any other assigned paperwork, such as incident/accident reports.
• Participate in parent-teacher conferences.
• Any other tasks assigned by the Center Director.

Additional Skills/Work Environment

• Must be able to lift up to 30 pounds.
• Frequent periods of standing, bending, crouching, and occasionally running.
• Must be able to maintain a strict schedule in the classroom to ensure compliance with the state "ratio".
• Capable of working a full assigned shift to maintain ratios, shifts typically are 8 hours with a 30-minute break.

Equal Employment Opportunity