Preschool Teacher Assistant

Acquire4Hire LLC; Knoxville (TN); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Acquire4Hire LLC is hiring a Preschool Teacher Assistant for the Fall 2025 semester. This role involves supporting the teacher in a caring environment, executing learning activities, and ensuring safety for young children. Benefits include a 4-day work week, health insurance, and paid leave.

Benefits

4-day teaching week

Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness

Overtime pay over 40 hours

Free health insurance for the individual

Dental and vision insurance

Retirement contributions by the employer

Qualifications

• Ability to work with young children and meet their individual needs.
• Valid Driver's License and established work history required.
• Physical ability to lift and move children or furniture.

Responsibilities

• Maintains a safe and healthy learning environment.
• Implements developmentally appropriate learning activities.
• Assists in providing transportation services.

Skills

Child Management

Organizational Skills

Communication

Education

High School diploma or GED

Job description

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Base pay range

$17.40/hr - $17.40/hr

Summary

Now Hiring for Fall 2025

Full-time - 37.5 hours per week

The Preschool Teacher Assistant supports the Teacher in providing a safe and caring learning environment for young children.

Duties

Responsibilities:

• Assists with and maintains a safe and healthy learning environment using appropriate classroom organization, schedules, and routines and effective classroom and child management techniques; provides health and nutrition services for children.
• Assists in implementing developmentally appropriate learning activities for young children based on individual needs in order to advance physical, intellectual, social, and emotional growth and development.
• Assists in the provision of parent involvement services consistent with the Parent Involvement/Education Plan and operating policies and procedures.
• Provides transportation services for children and parents consistent with the Transportation Plan and operating policies and procedures.
• Assists in the provision of social services consistent with the Family Services Plan and operating policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates professional behaviors and work habits which comply with agency personnel policies and procedures, and completes special assignments from immediate supervisor or the Head Start Director.
  
  

Requirements

• High School diploma or GED
• Established work history
• Valid Driver's License
• Criminal background check (fingerprint, vulnerable person's registry, etc.)
• Ability to pass college coursework and obtain a Child Development Associate Credential (CDA) - (provided by employer)
• Physical ability to work with young children - up and down on floor, on and off buses, on playground, lifting up to 50 lbs. to carry a child, move furniture, etc.
  
  

Nice To Haves

• Experience with young children in a Licensed Child Care Facility
• Child Development Associate Credential (CDA), AAS or higher in Early Childhood Education or Child Development
  
  

Benefits

• 4-day teaching week, with every Friday designated for professional development, team meetings, paperwork, lesson planning, etc
• 37.5 hour work week
• Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Employer
• Overtime pay over 40 hours
• no-cost meals when working with children
• Over three weeks of paid leave for winter break, spring break, holidays, etc.
• Sick Leave
• Free health insurance for the individual
• Dental and vision insurance
• Free life insurance equivalent to one's salary
• Retirement contributions by the employer equivalent to 6% of one's salary after one year of employment
• Deferred Compensation Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible spending account
• Training to update and renew skills
  
  

Administered by Knoxville-Knox County Community Action Committee (CAC).

CAC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, creed, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital or Veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Education and Training

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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