Nursery School Teacher

Huffman Family Brands; Ellicott City (MD); On-site; USD 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free Continuing Education Units

401K Plan

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid Holidays

Paid Time Off

Child Care Discounts

Job summary

Celebree Schools is hiring. join a mission-driven team dedicated to protecting, educating, and nurturing children in a collaborative setting.

The role emphasizes compliant classroom management, engaging lessons, strong parent communication, and mentoring an assistant teacher while maintaining a safe, organized environment.

Qualifications

• BA in early childhood education or BA in an unrelated field.
• MD State Credential Level 5 preferred.
• 1 year experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage classroom ensuring compliance with MSDE-OCC regulations, company standards, policies and procedures.
• Provide a welcoming and friendly classroom environment for all children, parents and visitors.
• Maintain attractive and current classroom displays and an Educational Parent Board updated regularly.
• Create and implement age-appropriate, themed lesson plans with effective transitions.
• Assist and supervise children during all activities; use positive discipline techniques.
• Ensure classroom cleanliness and safety.
• Accurately complete daily paperwork (reports, attendance).
• Support and direct assistant teacher to keep the classroom orderly.
• Communicate with parents with regular updates on development and happenings.
• Identify opportunities or problems and work with staff to resolve.

Skills

Classroom management

Parent communication

Lesson planning

Positive discipline

Team collaboration

Education

BA in early childhood education

BA in unrelated field

MD State Credential Level 5

Job description

Description

At every Celebree School, our mission is to protect, educate, and nurture the children in our care. Child

care jobs with our School family are life-changing ones. We say Celebree Schools are a place where we

grow people big and small because we all learn from each other, every day. At Celebree Schools, we

are committed to offering qualified educators rewarding child care jobs. We encourage staff members

opportunities to become increasingly proficient in their position with the chance to grow within the

Celebree Organization. To those ends, we have developed and implemented our Employee Investment

Cycle.

Click Here to Watch a video from our Celebree Team: https://vimeo.com/486517180

Full Time (30+ hour per week) Benefits Offered:

• - Free Continuing Education Units
• - Tiers Program
• - Career Development
• - Short Term Disability
• - 401K Plan
• - Health Insurance
• - Dental Insurance
• - Life Insurance
• - Employer Assistance Program
• - Paid Holidays
• - Paid Time Off
• - Child Care Discounts
• - Orientation Program
• - Employee Referral Bonuses
• - Monthly Team Building Initiatives
• - Onboarding Cost Reimbursement
• - Free Uniform Items

**not an all inclusive list**

Essential Functions:

• Manages classroom ensuring compliance with all MSDE-OCC regulations, company standards, policies and procedures.
• Provides a welcoming and friendly classroom environment for all children, parents and visitors.
• Maintains attractive and current classroom/hallway displays and an educational and informative Parent Board that is updated regularly.
• Creates and implements thorough, timely lesson plans that are age appropriate and stimulating in accordance with weekly themes and Celebree's curriculum; manages effective classroom transitions.
• Assists and supervises children during all activities; counsels children as needed using positive and appropriate discipline techniques.
• Ensures that appearance, cleanliness and safe environment of classroom are appropriately maintained.
• Accurately completes all classroom paperwork, e.g., Daily Reports, accident reports, attendance records.
• Provides support and direction to assistant teacher to ensure the classroom functions in an orderly manner.
• Communicates effectively with parents, e.g., greeting by name, addressing concerns in a timely manner, giving positive feedback, and providing regular updates on their child's development and classroom happenings.
• Identifies opportunities and/or problems in the classroom and school and works with the assistant teacher and/or school director to resolve.

Requirements

Physical Demands:

The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. The job requires frequent bending,

stooping, squatting, reaching, lifting and carrying; ability to lift 50 pounds.

Education/Experience:

BA in early childhood education or BA in an unrelated field + the above requirements preferred. MD State Credential Level 5 and 1 year experience preferred