Nature-Focused Preschool Assistant Teacher — Full-Time

Leila Inc; New Haven (CT); Vor Ort; USD 26.000 - 32.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Sick Leave

Benefits & Professional Growth

Holiday and vacation pay

401(k) retirement plan with employer-m

Ongoing professional development and学习

Zusammenfassung

Leila Day in New Haven seeks a full-time Preschool Assistant Teacher to join our teaching team and work alongside Co/Lead Teachers with children ages 3–4. The Assistant Teacher plays an essential role in creating a warm, engaging, and inclusive classroom community where children feel known, supported, and empowered to explore through play.

Working collaboratively with the teaching team, the Assistant Teacher helps implement an emergent, child-centered curriculum grounded in children's interests,

Qualifikationen

• Associate degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Minimum 1 year of experience working with children in a childcare or school setting.
• Experience working with children ages 3–9.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and an ability to work collaboratively as part of a teaching team.
• Warm, patient, dependable, and responsive approach to working with young children.
• Genuine interest in play-based, emergent, and child-centered education.
• Ability and willingness to participate in outdoor learning experiences in a variety of weather conditions.
• Interest in creating inclusive, culturally responsive learning environments.

Aufgaben

• Foster a warm, welcoming, inclusive, and developmentally appropriate classroom environment.
• Work collaboratively with Co/Lead Teachers to plan, implement, observe, and document an emergent, child-centered curriculum.
• Engage actively with children throughout the day, facilitating play, extending children's thinking and exploration, and building caring, respectful relationships.
• Support children's social-emotional development and growing independence by modeling empathy, patience, respect, and positive communication.
• Support and affirm each child's cultural background, language, identity, interests, and individual learning style while contributing to an equitable and inclusive classroom community.
• Support daily classroom routines and procedures in collaboration with Co/Lead Teachers, including transitions, group activities, meals, rest, toileting, and outdoor time.
• Help maintain a safe, orderly, and engaging learning environment by preparing materials, setting up and cleaning up activities, organizing classroom spaces, and caring for classroom resources.
• Participate fully in indoor and outdoor learning experiences, helping children engage safely and confidently with nature, materials, and their surroundings in all weather.

Kenntnisse

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Patience

Empathy

Outdoor learning

Ausbildung

Associate degree

Early childhood coursework

Tools

CPR/First Aid training

Medication administration training

Jobbeschreibung

Leila Day in New Haven seeks a full-time Preschool Assistant Teacher to join our teaching team and work alongside Co/Lead Teachers with children ages 3–4. The Assistant Teacher plays an essential role in creating a warm, engaging, and inclusive classroom community where children feel known, supported, and empowered to explore through play.

Working collaboratively with the teaching team, the Assistant Teacher helps implement an emergent, child-centered curriculum grounded in children's interests,