Lead Teacher

Childcareingodshands; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A childcare organization in Cincinnati is looking for a Lead Teacher to implement curriculum and create a positive, nurturing learning environment. Responsibilities include managing staff, ensuring compliance with educational standards, and engaging with parents. Candidates should be dedicated to lifelong learning and have experience in early childhood education practices.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing teachers and aides.
• Ability to create a nurturing and safe learning environment.
• Commitment to continual professional development.

Responsibilities

• Implement curriculum and early learning content standards.
• Ensure compliance with monitoring agencies.
• Conduct parent conferences and maintain communication.
• Perform screenings and assessments.

Skills

Understanding Step Up to Quality guidelines

Parent communication

Lesson planning

Assessment tools usage

Tools

Teaching Strategy Gold

Bracken assessment tools

Job description

Implement curriculum, and early learning content standards to develop lifelong learners in a professional, safe, nurturing and developmentally appropriate environment.

Lead Teacher Responsibilities

• Understand and implement Step Up to Quality guidelines with the ability to cross‑train.
• Ensuring compliance for all monitoring agencies, including all CACFP duties.
• Managing teachers, and aides.
• Ensuring positive involvement and communication with parents and families.
• Ensure implementation of learning content standards.
• Performing screenings utilizing Ages & Stages.
• Performing assessments utilizing Teaching Strategy Gold and Bracken assessment tools.
• Writing and implementing lesson plans based on early learning content standards and center based curriculum themes.
• Continual parent communication/Conducting parent conferences and meetings.
• Working cooperatively within the community.
• Most importantly, creating a positive, safe, learning environment in their classrooms, developing students who are lifelong learners.
• Continuing to be learners, completing all required training’s and 20 biannual hours of SUTQ training’s.
• Meeting each individual child’s needs with documentation.

Teacher Responsibilities

• Understand and implement Step Up to Quality guidelines with the ability to cross‑train.
• Ensuring compliance for all monitoring agencies, including all CACFP duties.
• Managing teacher’s assistants.
• Ensuring positive involvement and communication with parents and families.
• Implementing learning content standards.
• Performing screenings utilizing Ages & Stages.
• Continual parent communication/Conducting parent conferences and meetings.
• Performing assessments utilizing Teaching Strategy Gold and Bracken assessment tools.
• Writing and implementing lesson plans based on early learning content standards and center based curriculum themes.
• Working cooperatively within the community.
• Most importantly, creating a positive, safe, learning environment in their classrooms, developing students who are lifelong learners.
• Continuing to be learners, completing all required training’s and 20 biannual hours of SUTQ training’s.
• Meeting each individual child’s needs with documentation.

NOTE: These job descriptions are not intended to be all-inclusive. Employees may perform other related duties as needed to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.