Group Supervisor - Armstrong Central

Earlylearningconnections; Ford City (Armstrong County); On-site; USD 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Earlylearningconnections in Ford City, PA, is seeking a Group Supervisor/Leader responsible for overseeing the teaching team and ensuring the safety and development of preschool children. The role requires educational planning and maintaining a nurturing classroom environment.

The ideal candidate needs a degree in Early Childhood Education or equivalent experience, strong communication skills, and the ability to manage both children and staff effectively.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Early Childhood Education or related field.
• Experience with preschoolers and child development.
• Ability to maintain visual and auditory supervision.

Responsibilities

• Lead the teaching team and ensure smooth classroom functioning.
• Supervise assistants and maintain the classroom environment.
• Plan educational programs to meet children's needs.

Skills

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Child supervision

Education

Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education or similar

Associate's degree with 2 years experience

Job description

POSITION: GROUP SUPERVISOR/LEADER

MAIN FUNCTION: The Group Supervisor is the leader of the teaching team in his/her classroom and is principally accountable for all aspects of the total room functioning.

The Group Supervisor supervises and evaluates the assistant and the aide with his/her classroom, as well supervision of all visitors including volunteers, students and others. The Group Supervisor assumes responsibility for the safety of the children in his/her care.

RESPONSIBLE TO: Program Manager

SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS

• Assumes responsibility for the physical appearance and environment of his/her classroom including its functional arrangement, organized appearance, and creates an enriching, stimulating and warm atmosphere that supports the children's and the adult's goals.
• Assumes responsibility for maintaining supplies and equipment in good order and repair and submit, (in advance), written requests of needed supplies, equipment, repairs, etc.
• Assumes responsibility for program planning for his/her classroom, including long-range and daily plans. The program should be flexible, lending itself to the needs of children, involving long-range goals for each child, and ensuring a superb program of care and development. The program should meet the child's emotional, social, intellectual and physical needs.
• Meets with other supervising teachers, the Educational Coordinator to plan the educational program of the classroom.
• Participates in all weekly sessions and available in-service programs that are necessary and relevant to the operation of the Center.
• Submits monthly and/or weekly reports, as well as other reports to the appropriate supervisor on or before the due date.
• Plans time wisely.
• Prepares materials in advance, which are needed for the daily program.
• Uses the children's rest time as staff work time to do record keeping, quiet conferences, mending of books and toys and preparing materials.
• Coordinates staff responsibilities so that plans are carried out and as harmonious an atmosphere as possible is maintained.
• Holds weekly staff meetings for communication and discussion of staff needs, conflicts, and ideas with appropriate resource person(s).
• Assigns staff in a flexible way using staff's potential to the fullest (useful for particular classroom's program) so that collaboration is effected which contributes to the growth of all children and adults.
• Assists classroom staff in cooperating as a flexible unit, by pooling all their resources to aid in the development of the individual child.
• Maintains, re-evaluates and updates each child's developmental evaluation form.
• Keeps adequate records of each child's needs, progress, and special action requested and/or obtained.
• Consults with the Education Supervisor and Coordinates about individual children.
• Participates in relevant training sessions during working hours, which are in no way in conflict with meeting the needs of the children.
• Interacts with parents to provide an atmosphere in which the parent feels comfortable and therefore trusting as demonstrated by their support and reinforcement of the goals of the Center for their individual child.
• When invited, attends parent meetings to help enhance an atmosphere of trust and a mutual working together of parents and teacher to decide (specific) goals for the individual child.
• Evaluates and supervises the Assistants, Aides and any volunteers in his/her classroom.
• Promote Butler County Children's Center in the community by commonly sharing the responsibility of active recruitment of children.
• Staff will support the program-wide adoption of the teaching pyramid model to promote the development of young children's social-emotional competence and address challenging behavior.
• Staff will create and maintain a positive organizational culture by demonstrating the program-wide behavioral expectations in their social interactions with children, families, community members and colleagues.
• Attends professional seminars, lectures, conferences and workshops.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

For effective administration of this position, the Group Supervisor must have the following minimum qualifications:

• Completion of an undergraduate program at an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree in early childhood education, child development, special education, elementary education, or the human services field an experience with children including preschoolers.
• Completion of an undergraduate program at an accredited college or university with an associate's degree or its equivalent in early childhood education, child development, special education, elementary education, or the human services field; and two years work experience related to the care and development of children including preschoolers.
• An associate's degree from an accredited college or university in early childhood education, child development, special education, elementary education or the human services field and 2 years of experience with children including preschoolers.

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Must be able to maintain visual and auditory supervision of children at all times to insure their safety in the classroom, on the playground, and on field trips.
• Must be able to communicate with parents and preschool children.
• Must be able to climb, stoop, crawl, kneel and bend in order to speak to children at the child's eye level, play with children, and pick up toys and equipment from the floor.
• Must be able to lift pre-schoolage children and move child size furniture.
• Hours can be long and tiring, with infrequent breaks on occasion resulting in stress on the job.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.