Toddler Teacher

Job description:

Position Title: Toddler Teacher

Wolcott CT

Work Status: Full Time (30 hours)

Hours: 8:30am – 2:30pm Monday-Friday (potential for extra hours if interested)

Start: We are looking to fill this position to start now

Pay: Hourly rate $17.50 + depending on Experience and/or Education

We are searching for a nurturing toddler teacher to ensure that the basic and educational needs of our students are met. As a toddler teacher, you will be required to prepare and deliver classroom activities, communicate with staff and parents, Work with co-teacher and ensure that the learning environment remains safe at all times. You should also be an excellent role model for our students.

To be successful as a toddler teacher, you should be creative, energetic, and able to encourage self-expression. Top candidates will possess a thorough understanding of the contextual factors that shape early childhood development.

Toddler Teacher Responsibilities:

• Planning and implementing lessons designed to facilitate students' social, emotional, and cognitive development.
• Encouraging self-expression through understanding, flexibility, and behavioral reinforcement.
• Tending to students' basic needs.
• Potty training
• Mediating conflict between students.
• Modelling appropriate behaviors.
• Ensuring that the classroom remains safe and conducive to learning at all times.
• Maintain a clean, safe, nurturing, and stimulating environment.
• evaluate and improve the physical environment of the classroom to create opportunities that meet the changing needs of the developing children.
• Liaising with families to gain insight into students' home lives.
• Tracking and informing parents of students' progress.
• Attending parent and staff meetings.

Toddler Teacher Requirements:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Clear criminal record.
• Prior experience working with young children, preferably within a similar setting.
• First aid certified per CT requirements
• CPR certified per CT requirements
• Medication certified per CT requirements
• Physically fit and able to lift up to 30 pounds.
• Able to stand for extended periods of time.
• Able to get down on childs level for playing and engagement
• Warm, approachable disposition.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• A passion for early childhood development.

Qualifications:

-Love working with children

-Enthusiastic

-Organized

-Creative

-Caring

Benefits:

• 5 paid sick/vacation days
• 1 week off at the end of June (unpaid)
• 1 week off at the end of August (unpaid)
• 1 week off between Christmas and New Year’s (unpaid)
• Major holidays off (unpaid)
• Small Private Preschool
• Small class size 8 students with 2 teachers per class
• Enthusiastic and Energetic Team
• No medical benefits

If you are interested in the position, can work the hours of 8:30am to 2:30pm and you are not looking for medical benefits please contact us with your resume to schedule an interview.

Job Types: Part-time, Full-time

Benefits:

• Professional development assistance

Education:

• High school or equivalent (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• CPR Certification (Preferred)