Preschool Teacher

Kid City Drop In Center and Resort; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 20,664 - 27,552; Part time

Job summary

Kid City Drop In Center and Resort in Memphis, Tennessee is seeking a part-time childcare provider to ensure a safe and nurturing environment for children. This role involves developing imaginative play, teaching basic skills, and attending to children's needs while fostering their social and emotional growth.

The position requires a degree in early childhood education and offers an evolution to a full-time role with approximately 20 hours per week to start.

Qualifications

• Must ensure a safe and nurturing environment for children.
• Experience in early childhood education is required.
• Ability to adapt teaching methods to various needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide materials and resources for children.
• Attend to children's basic needs.
• Teach essential skills and establish behavior rules.
• Organize activities for physical and social development.

Skills

Creative

Energetic

Attentive

Team player

Education

Degree in Early Childhood Education or related field

Job description

Kid City is playcare at its best. It’s a unique play space where kids get to explore, interact and have fun while parents get that much needed time without the kids. Our safe, clean, modern and captivating play space is designed to stimulate growing minds and nurture growing bodies. We promise parents that they will pick up happy kids!

Job Description

We are looking for creative, energetic, and attentive people who love kids. We are looking for people that go out of their way to ensure children are loved, well cared for, and happy! Primary responsibility is to provide a safe and nurturing environment for children that will encourage their social, emotional, physical, and intellectual development. If you have a passion for children and are a team player, we want to meet you!

Other Responsibilities:

• Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.
• Attend to children's basic needs by feeding them, dressing them, and changing their diapers.
• Teach basic skills such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.
• Establish and enforce rules for behavior, and procedures for maintaining order.
• Read books to entire classes or to small groups.
• Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, and field trips.
• Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
• Identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems, and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists.
• Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and needs, determine their priorities for their children, and suggest ways that they can promote learning and development.
• Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students.
• Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
• Teach proper eating habits and personal hygiene.
• Serve meals and snacks in accordance with nutritional guidelines.
• Assimilate arriving children to the school environment by greeting them, helping them remove outerwear, and selecting activities of interest to them.
• Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
• Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate those objectives to children.

Qualifications

• A degree in early childhood education or related field is required.

Additional Information

This position will begin as part-time with 20 hours per week. It will evolve into a full-time position.