After School Teacher Job Description

Little Sharks Learning Center

Job Overview
We are seeking a passionate and dedicated After School Teacher to join our educational team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in early childhood education and a commitment to fostering a nurturing and stimulating environment for young learners. This role involves creating games and activities, facilitating tutoring and homework time, and supporting the developmental needs of each child in the classroom.

Criteria:

• Must be 21 years or older.
• Have a fun, flexible, kind & caring heart towards children and others.
• Desire to pour into the young lives of our future generation, through developmentally appropriate practices.
• Background in working with children.
• Able to pass background & fingerprint screening, as well as, a drug test.
• Ability to work well with others.
• Ability to follow daily routines and lesson plans.
• Valid Driver's License and ID
• Ability to drive large Van with children.
• Complete the mandatory DCF requirements and hours.
• CPR & First Aid Certification.

Purpose: To assist the teacher in providing a warm and nurturing environment in which the child can grow physically, emotionally and intellectually.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Day-to-day Responsibilities

• Pick-Up children from school and bring them to the facility.
• Create a safe and welcoming classroom environment that encourages exploration and learning.
• Guide and lead other infant teacher's and volunteers in their interactions with the children.
• Monitor and guide children in their homework.
• Foster positive relationships with students, encouraging their individuality and self-expression.
• Maintain open communication with parents regarding their child's classroom activities.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations within the classroom and on playground.

Policies, Professionalism and Procedures

• Organizes the group's environment and takes responsibility for maintaining it, including general upkeep.
• Practices personal health and safety procedures throughout the day.
• Maintains proper sanitation in the classroom.
• Practices effective hand washing.
• Initiates conversation about good nutrition.
• Enforces safety rules.
• Notifies leadership team of count or if out of ratio.
• Sits with class to eat and serves in a relaxed atmosphere.
• Helps maintain a meal roster.
• Willing to make changes in approach and curriculum.
• Flexible in job assignment and cooperative with leadership team and other team members.
• Training of helpers and support team to maintain on a daily basis.
• Involves group in general upkeep and tidiness.
• Maintains confidentiality.
• Dresses appropriately according to dress code.
• Participates in team meetings - is prepared to discuss group and personal responsibilities (e.g.. class activities, lesson plans, parent interaction, and other delegated duties).
• Exhibits flexibility with other team members.
• Maintains a positive attitude toward work, coworkers, children, and families.
• Knows the general center routine and sees that it is followed.
• Understand and accept responsibility for training of other team members as assigned.
• Helps lead teacher to integrate supplementary activities into the daily schedule that are age-appropriate and relevant to children’s learning.
• Helps lead teacher to make on-going observations of each child and routinely makes formal age-appropriate assessments of developmental progress.
• Helps lead teacher to accommodate special needs children.
• Helps maintain classroom arrangement to encourage children to participate.
• The use of television, films and video tape is limited.
• Plans include provision for children who do not wish to participate in a particular activity.

Parent Interaction

• Has consistent professional, child/work-related, and positive interaction with all parents.
• Consistently follows the pick-up procedures.
• Makes sure all written communication is approved through the leadership team and that all verbal communication is approved through the lead teacher.
• Initiates contacts with all parents.
• Reads communication log sheets consistently each day.
• Completes needed daily reports and incident reports.
• Communicates with a First Aid/Meds person regarding all accidents and illnesses.
• Interaction is usually child/work related and positive.

Interaction with Children

• Classroom and day is child oriented.
• Classroom activities encourage the development of language skills.
• Incorporates open-ended questions on a daily basis.
• Children have opportunities to talk about their experiences and engage in conversation.
• Describes objects and events and adds to what the child says.
• Read books and poems to children.
• Accepts and encourages pre-writing efforts (scribbling, drawing, copying, and inventive spelling).
• Encourages thinking, reasoning, and self-expression.
• Accepts/respects children’s questions.
• Encourages children to express possible solutions/answers.
• Has frequent and positive interaction with children.
• Assists in transition into group setting.
• Engage in meaningful conversation.
• Speaks to the child at child’s level (bends low).
• Upon arrival and throughout the day initiates contact with all children.
• Demonstrates affection by smiling, appropriate touching, and speaking in a calm voice.
• Is an example before the children.
• Balances time spent with each child.
• Helps to promote cooperative and positive social behavior among children.
• Plans activities that encourage cooperation rather than competition.
• Acknowledges sharing, caring and helping.
• Creates spaces for children to work and play together.
• Assists children with entering a play situation.
• Assists children in problem solving.
• Helps a child understand the actions of another.
• Plans activities that encourage cooperation rather than competition.
• Is aware of medications, allergies, food intolerances, etc.
• Avoids unnecessary conversation with team members while supervising children.
• Makes sure all areas are supervised.
• Aware of the presence or absence of all children while supervising.
• Interacts with children while supervising.
• Is responsive to children.
• Listens to children with attention and respect.
• Responds to children’s ideas and suggestions.
• Acknowledges/verbalizes children’s feelings.
• Children are generally comfortable, happy, relaxed, and engaged in activities.
• Materials, activities, and interactions promote positive self-esteem.
• Materials and activities enable children to experience success most of the time.
• Uses children’s names in positive interactions.
• Displays children’s artwork at children’s eye level.
• Listens and responds respectfully to other adults and children.
• Attentive and loving to children; smiles, holds, and touches when children require.
• Maintains child hygiene.
• Encourages children to develop self-help skills that are appropriate to their age. (Washing their hands, taking care of personal belongings, picking up learning materials, wiping spills, etc.)
• Transitions between activities are not overly regimented or structured.
• Prepares new activities ahead of time. Does not always move children as a group from one area to another
• Gives children advance notice about change of activity.
• Does not require children to “wait” for long periods of time for another activity to begin.
• Displays respect for cultural diversity.
• Includes materials and activities that promote understanding of diversity in curriculum.
• Makes opportunities to discuss the value of differences.
• Intervenes to stop teasing and rejection due to race and/pr physical characteristics. 

Requirements:

Professional Development

• Maintains necessary and needed training annually to stay current in professional area
• Maintains First Aid and CPR.
• Maintains state minimum required training hours for child care worker/teacher
• Attends mandatory team meetings including special group meetings.
• Attends open house and programs for parents.
• Maintains Universal Precautions training.
• Maintains Mandatory Child Abuse Reporting Training.

Time Commitment:

11-12 hrs. a week. Minimum-11 hrs. a week. (Could be FULL-TIME, if an assistant teacher as well, please indicate in your cover letter if is the route you would like to go).

Join our Family, as we make a positive impact on the lives of young children throughout the community! We are looking to hire by early April, and begin training soon there after, as we prepare to open up our new facility in Port St. Joe.

Job Type: Part-time