Early Head Start/Head Start Associate Teacher
University of Kansas Medical Center
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Job summary
University of Kansas Medical Center is seeking a Regular, full-time early childhood educator to support children birth through five in a Head Start setting. The role emphasizes safety, developmentally appropriate planning, and collaboration with families and an interdisciplinary team.
Responsibilities include implementing the High Scope Curriculum, maintaining accurate records, and ensuring compliance with Head Start standards.
Qualifications
- Associate degree in Early Childhood Education, Child Development, or closely related field.
- Degree in an unrelated field with at least 9 early childhood credits and willingness to complete further education to 30 credits within 3 years.
- CDA or Early childhood certificate with 12 credits and 2 years experience and willingness to complete further education to an Associate degree within 3 years.
Responsibilities
- Ensure children safety by maintaining a clean, healthy, and safe classroom environment and supervising children at all times.
- Plan and implement developmentally appropriate activities using High Scope Curriculum with co-teacher and aide.
- Engage families, conduct home visits, and participate in interdisciplinary meetings to support child outcomes.
- Observe, assess, and document each child’s skills, growth, and progress toward school readiness.
- Manage paperwork including lesson plans, assessments, attendance, and meal counts.
Skills
Education
Job description
Project Eagle is an early childhood program focused on preparing children, engaging families, and promoting excellence for children and families in Kansas City, Kansas. Project Eagle provides home-based and center-based services to pregnant women and/or children ages birth to five through a variety of programs, the largest being Early Head Start. Project Eagle is also a member of the Educare Learning Network, part of a national initiative that serves as a platform for broader change, inspiring high-quality programs in communities, improving public policies within each state, and demonstrating a comprehensive approach to the first five years of life and learning.
- Ensure children safety by maintaining a clean, healthy, and safe classroom environment, by conducting authorized emergency and safety procedures, and actively supervising children at all times.
- Plan and implement developmentally appropriate classroom activities and environment that intentionally support the developmental and educational goals of children's individual education plans utilizing the High Scope Curriculum in conjunction with the co-teacher 1 and teacher aide.
- Support children to develop positive social relationships, provide opportunities for children to develop positive self-images and experience success, and help children develop conflict resolution skills utilizing Conscious Discipline.
- Utilize the continuity of care model to support children and families to develop safe, secure attachments.
- Intensive Family Engagement Partner with families to build mutually respectful goal-oriented relationships that support strong parent-child relationships, family well-being, and ongoing learning and development for both parents and children.
- Interact with families through regular classroom contact and contribute to and participate in interdisciplinary meetings, child and family reviews, family conferences and home visits to develop individual child goals, share progress towards school readiness, and respond to their identified interests and/or needs.
- Provide monthly classroom family engagement activities based on the interests of the children and families.
- Ensure the timely completion of necessary paperwork including developmental assessments, lesson plans, parent information, incident/accident report, attendance, USDA meal counts, etc.)
- Observe, assess, and document each child's skills, behavior, growth and development.
- Assess student needs and develop individualized learning opportunities for each child.
- Understand the referral process to Part B and Part C and alert interdisciplinary team when student screenings or assessments show areas of concern.
- Utilize classroom and school data to improve teaching practice, provide a high-quality early learning experience for children, and ensure school readiness.
- Ensure that all child files and portfolios are complete, accurate, and confidentially maintained.
Collaborate with coworkers during team planning sessions and support of implementation of best practices in the classroom. Participate in ongoing professional development, coaching and reflective supervision activities and support the implementation of changes in classroom practice to promote high quality instruction. Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to provide support for families with unique backgrounds and various needs.
Follow all mandates of Head Start Regulations, state and local childcare licensing regulations, and Project Eagle/Educare of Kansas City's philosophy and curriculum. This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. It is only a summary of the typical functions of the job, not an exhaustive list of all possible job responsibilities, tasks, duties, and assignments. Furthermore, job duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
$23.00/hr.
Ability to move up to 50 pounds with or without reasonable accommodations.
- Associate degree in Early Childhood Education, Child Development, or closely related field
- Degree in an unrelated field with at least 9 early childhood credits and willingness to complete further education to complete a total of 30 Early Childhood education credits within 3 years.
- CDA or Early childhood certificate and 12 early childhood credits and 2 years experience and willingness to complete further education to complete an Associate degree within 3 years.
This position requires a formal degree in the cited discipline area(s) to ensure that candidates have advanced knowledge, analytical skills and professional competencies necessary to perform the duties of the position. The level of degree is commonly recognized as the standard qualification for similar roles in the public and private sector, ensuring that the university remains competitive with industry aligned practices, enhances collaboration with external partners, and supports the delivery of services and programs that meet professional and market-driven expectations.
CPR and First Aid Certified or become certified within 30 days of employment (paid for by employer).
1 year experience in early childhood education. This position requires the incumbent to pass background check including fingerprinting.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education, Child Development, or closely related field
- Experience working in an Early Head Start Center-based program.
- Experience working as a part of a multidisciplinary team to provide high quality, developmentally appropriate care and education for young children.
- Experience working with early intervention and children with special needs.
- Experience implementing curriculum.
- Experience using assessment data for instructional purposes and using assessment tools to measure children’s development.
- Experience with research partnerships.
- Knowledge of Head Start Performance Standards as demonstrated by application materials.
Bilingual Spanish/English.
- Interpersonal skills.
- Communication skills.
- Computer skills.
Resume/CV, Cover Letter.
- Coverage begins on day one for health, dental, and vision insurance and includes health expense accounts with generous employer contributions if the employee participates in a qualifying health plan.
- Employer-paid life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and various additional voluntary insurance plans are available.
- Paid time off, including vacation and sick, begins accruing upon hire, plus ten paid holidays.
- One paid discretionary day is available after six months of employment, and paid time off for bereavement, jury duty, military service, and parental leave is available after 12 months of employment.
- A retirement program with a generous employer contribution and additional voluntary retirement programs (457 or 403b) are available.
Regular
Full time
Hourly
Pay Range: $21.06 - $27.40. Minimum $21.06. Midpoint $24.23. Maximum $27.40.
The University of Kansas Medical Center is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ethnicity, ancestry, age, protected veteran or disability status, marital status, parental status, or genetic information.
Under Kansas state law, certain KUMC positions are subject to disability preference. For positions subject to this requirement, KUMC will offer an interview to a person who has applied for an open position who is qualified, with or without reasonable accommodation, to meet the performance standards of the position and who has presented acceptable proof of disability. If the position you apply for is subject to the disability preference requirement, you will be asked to provide information in support of your request for disability preference when you complete the application for employment.
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