Preschool Co-Teacher - (Greenlee County)

Paycom; Duncan (AZ); On-site; USD 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid holidays

Health insurance

401k eligibility

Dental coverage

Job summary

Child-Parent Centers (CPC) in Duncan, AZ is seeking passionate early childhood professionals for a co-teacher role in a full-day preschool setting. You will work with 17-20 preschoolers, implementing the Languages of Learning curriculum and collaborating with families to promote growth across cognitive, social, health, and emotional domains.

This position emphasizes teamwork, adaptability, and commitment to high-quality education, with professional development support including CDA credentialing

Qualifications

• Must be 18 years or older.
• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Valid Arizona driver’s license with clean driving record.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office 365 (Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Able to read, write, speak, and understand English.
• Submit AZ DPS Level One Fingerprint Clearance Card before start date.
• Able to pass company-paid physical exam before starting.
• Able to pass DES Centralized Background Check before starting.
• Must prove right to work in the USA (I-9).
• Must obtain CDA credential within two years of hire.
• Ability to obtain State of Arizona Food Safety Manager Certification and Food Handlers Class within one month.

Responsibilities

• Implement the Languages of Learning curriculum for daily classroom activities.
• Plan lessons and document children’s progress and outcomes.
• Develop goals and learning experiences considering each child’s needs and family context.
• Engage families through communication and partnerships respecting cultures and languages.
• Maintain health and safety standards and supervise children at all times.
• Support English language learning and reading activities.
• Coordinate with Lead Teacher, Education Specialist, and other staff for coaching and development.

Skills

English reading/writing

Office 365 proficiency

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Office 365

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Job Details

Level: Entry, Job Location: Duncan Head Start - Duncan, AZ 85534, Position Type: 35 hours/week - July through May, Education Level: High School Diploma or GED, Salary Range: $15.55 - $17.88 Hourly, Travel Percentage: Negligible, Job Shift: Day (M-F) Approx 7:30am - 2:30pm, Job Category: Education, Level: Entry

Position Type: 35 hours/week ( Part year: mid-July thru mid-May)

Salary: Grade 02 - 03

Travel %: In Town

Job Shift: Day (M-F), work is in-person and has limited eligibility for remote work, may require working some evenings and weekends.

Job Categories: Education

Classification: Hourly

Supervisor: Teacher Coordinator

Supervises: None

Job Summary

Child-Parent Centers (CPC) is seeking professionals who share our values and principles for building trusting relationships with children, families, and colleagues. Successful candidates welcome individual differences and perspectives, respect cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and are sensitive to current circumstances. Candidates display a commitment to teamwork, open communication, and are eager to work in a fast-paced, high quality preschool environment. This is a great opportunity for organized and dependable early childhood professionals with strong work ethic and a desire to grow. CPC provides opportunities and financial support for co-teachers to grow professionally including attainment of a Child Development Associate (CDA) credential, an associate degree, and potentially a bachelor's degree in early childhood education or child development. If you have previous experience working in an early childhood center and are interested in joining our growing team, we encourage you to apply.

Reporting to the Lead Teacher or Teacher, the Co-Teacher partners with the classroom team in providing comprehensive high-quality early education and child development services for 17 - 20 preschool-aged children enrolled in the assigned classroom. Daily routines promote children’s cognitive, social, health, and emotional growth for later success in school. The Co-Teacher receives regular on-going support from the Lead Teacher and the Education Specialist (coach) to implement the agency’s Languages of Learning curriculum that includes creating a safe and enriching environment, embedding responsive and effective teacher-child interactions, and fostering partnerships with families by respecting values, strengths, and cultures and welcoming parent's contributions and participation. The Co-Teacher position is funded for 7-8 hours per day Monday through Friday, working directly with children for 3.75-8 hours per day four to five days of the week. When children are not attending class, the co-teacher participates in activities such as planning lessons, documenting children's work and outcomes, entering and analyzing child and family data, setting goals, and attending professional development opportunities.

Benefits

• Paid Leave - 24 paid holidays, 5 days paid vacation after one year and up to 10-13 days each year thereafter, 5-8 days paid Personal leave first year, 8-11 days each year thereafter, up to 5 days paid Sick leave per year.
• Insurance benefits - dental, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Reimbursement Arrangements, Health Savings Accounts, PPO medical (3 plans), Vision, and Supplemental Life coverage for self, spouse, and child ($25,000 basic life and Accidental death and disability provided by employer). Supplemental Insurances (Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Accident). Pet Insurance.
• Retirement Plan - Agency contribution after years of services and hours of eligibility criteria are met. Employee 401k deferral once eligibility is met.

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be 18 years of age.
• High School Diploma OR GED
• Possess a valid Arizona driver's license and excellent driving record.
• Demonstrated proficiency using Office 365 (Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Must be able to read, write, speak, and understand English.
• Submit a current AZ Department of Public Safety Level One Fingerprint Clearance Card prior to start date.
• Able to pass a company paid physical exam prior to starting work.
• Able to pass a DES Centralized Background Check prior to starting work.

Required Competencies

• Accountability and Dependability
• Safety Focus
• Listening
• Creative and Innovative Thinking
• Building Relationships
• Teamwork
• Self-Management
• Adaptability and Flexibility
• Development and Continual Learning
• Technology

Other Requirements (post hire)

• Must be willing to obtain a child development associate credential (CDA) within two years of hire.
• Must be able to report to and from various sites as needed.
• Must be able to travel outside their assigned area in a company-owned vehicle when necessary or assigned. This travel could begin before daylight hours and continue after sundown in some situations.
• Provide proof of immunizations: MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella), Tdap (adult Tetanus, Diphtheria, Pertussis), and a Tuberculosis self-assessment.
• Ability to maintain a valid level fingerprint clearance card and annual DES Centralized Background Check.
• Must be able to prove the right to work in the USA by providing appropriate documents to complete the Federal I-9 form.
• Must possess or have the ability to possess and keep current certification in First Aid Training/CPR training including Infants and Children.
• Must be able to obtain the State of Arizona Food Safety Manager Certification and Food Handlers Class within one month of employment.

Desired Qualifications

• Possess a Child Development Associate credential (CDA)
• Possess an associate degree from a recognized educational institution in the field of Early Childhood Education or closely related field (as determined by the agency) with 18 credits of early childhood education.
• Possess bachelor’s degree from a recognized educational institution in the field of Early Childhood Education or closely related field (as determined by the agency) with 18 credits of early childhood education.
• Six (6) months documented experience working in a paid or volunteer position with pre-school age children.
• Three (3) years' work or volunteer experience with groups or individuals from a variety of ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds or with Head Start.
• Able to read, write, speak and understand Spanish.

Work Environment

• Indoor classroom - temperature controlled.
• Outdoor playground - exposure to hot and cold
• Possible exposure to communicable illness, blood borne pathogens.
• Exposure to cleaning and sanitizing chemicals

Physical Requirements

Frequently

• Ability to see or hear and respond quickly to unsafe or emergency situations
• Stooping, bending, reaching, pushing, pulling, climbing
• Moving quickly around objects (run, jump, jog)
• Up and down from carpet/floor and/or 12"-14"chairs
• Lift children (3-5 year old children) (30 - 40 lb)

Occasionally

• Picking up and dropping off supplies
• Push and pull furniture {20 to 50lb}
• Lifting +/- 50 lb

Duties and Responsibilities: Job Specific Duties and Responsibilities

Direct Services

• Implement the Languages of Learning curriculum a minimum of 3.75 - 8 hours per day four to five days per week.
• Set learning goals and plans learning experiences by integrating knowledge of each child’s temperament, interests, gender, culture, language, learning approaches, understanding, misconceptions, and abilities and by working collaboratively with families and a range of specialists (e.g., medical, dental, speech, nutrition, mental health)
• Promote children’s active exploration, creativity, and development in all domains by designing indoor and outdoor environments based on knowledge of how children develop and learn, and their individual abilities.
• Build children’s pride in their cultures, families, and communities by ensuring that classroom learning centers and materials reflect children’s cultures and communities (e.g., books and print in families’ languages, family photographs, items from their culture)
• Ensure that children are intellectually challenged by selecting, organizing, and using high-quality materials and equipment and by adapting the environment to support each child’s skill acquisition and success.
• Use information about children obtained through home visits, parent-teacher conferences, and other parent-staff interactions by incorporating this data into daily routines and interactions with children.
• Maintain a healthy physical environment by following health and safety procedures (e.g., following universal precautions, regularly sanitizing equipment, child-proofing environments).
• Build children’s awareness of and ability to follow basic health and safety rules by providing opportunities for health and safety learning (e.g., implementing and discussing routines - washing hands, fire drills, crossing streets) and by supervising children at all times and positively redirecting them from potentially harmful activities.
• Develop and implement the child supervision system, child count system, and active supervision implementation plan to ensure all children are supervised at all times.
• Support parents in extending children’s learning at home by providing newsletters, take-home activities, home visits, and parent-teacher conferences.
• Help children who are learning English by providing them with the supports (e.g., props, gestures, incorporating basic words in the child’s home language, securing volunteers who speak the child’s language) they need to fully participate in classroom experiences.
• Enhance children’s knowledge and language and literacy development by regularly reading books with children individually, in small groups, and in various settings (e.g., block area, housekeeping area)
• Encourage children’s emergent writing skills, their awareness of print, and the varied purposes for writing by providing and using a range of writing materials (e.g., markers, crayons, finger paint, letter magnets) and environmental print (e.g., traffic signs, labels in the classroom, store signs)
• Support children’s interest in and awareness of numbers, counting, and problem solving by initiating counting games and activities and by providing materials that link number concepts to numerals and mathematical understanding and vocabulary.
• Promote children’s understanding of size, shape, color, and directionality by engaging them is small and large-motor activities that require them to sort, match, identify patterns, group objects, and measure objects.
• Build children’s ability to compare and talk about the similarities and differences between objects by providing experiences with sorting, matching, patterns, grouping, and measurement.
• Assist children in understanding math and science concepts by embedding math and science experiences into everyday routines, music, movement, literacy, art, and play.
• Help children expand their knowledge of their bodies and the world around them by planning and implementing in-depth exploration of topics in physical, life, and earth sciences.
• Encourage children’s use of scientific inquiry by offering experiences and opportunities to engage in questioning, predicting, investigating, and collecting and analyzing data.
• Expand children’s knowledge of nature, living things, and materials and processes by providing objects, tools, and experiences that enable them to closely observe and explore nature and scientific concepts (e.g., cause and effect, time, temperature, buoyancy, changes in materials).
• Facilitate children’s ability to listen to, interact with, and appreciate different types of music by providing individual and group experiences with singing, finger plays, creative movement, and musical instruments.
• Develop children’s imagination and creativity by providing child-directed and teacher-guided opportunities for them to express their thoughts, ideas, experiences, and feelings through various media (e