Job Description
Job Description
Education and Experience:
- At least 18 years of age (25 if responsible for driving a bus)
- Hold a high school diploma or equivalent
- Knowledge and understanding of all current State and Local regulations.
Primary Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide a positive and nurturing environment for the children.
- Responsible for health and safety of the children – not excessive accidents.
- Consistently keep clean and maintain the classroom areas (including bathrooms).
- Maintains a permanent room arrangement with no running spaces, shelves used as dividers, and materials/supplies at child level.
- Equipment out and children taught to use it properly
- Provides consistent and constant supervision of all children. Children are never left alone. Know how many children that you are responsible for at all times, ages, and who they are.
- An organized and structured daily schedule is implemented and followed daily.
- Works with Classroom Teachers in the day-to-day duties and responsibilities of the classroom
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Enjoys children and expresses genuine interest in them
- Speaks with calm, gentle voice
- Listens carefully and respectfully
- Teaches children to problem solve
- Utilizes teachable moments
- Must be able to focus on individual while being aware of what is happening everywhere
- Uses positive statements, is positive role-model
- Interacts consistently with children
- Must be able to maintain orderly, calm environment
- Supports cultural differences
- Ability to move from one activity to another without chaos
- Maintains positive parent interaction
- Encourages positive behavior often getting down to child’s level
- Teaches and allows children to make choices
- Uses Redirection
- Will frequently lift as in lifting, carrying, walking with, and holding infants and children.
- Required to stand up to 90% of the day.
- Must be able to stoop, bend, and sit on a child’s level.
- Able to physically and mentally interact and react to children on the playground and/or in the classroom and attend to their needs. This includes moderate and vigorous physical activity.