Shire Jobs

Early Childhood Lead Teacher

Requisition ID: 2024-7830

of Openings: 1

Location: US-UT-Logan Category: Teaching (non-Faculty) Position Type: Benefited Full-Time Job Classification: Exempt College: E Eccles Jones Coll of Ed and Hum Svs Department: Human Development and Family Studies Advertised Salary: Minimum $38,000; Commensurate with experience, plus excellent benefits

Overview The Dolores Dore Eccles Center for Early Care and Education has an opening for a Lead Teacher.  The Center includes four classrooms/programs: Infants (6 weeks - 12 months), Toddler (12 through 24 months), Junior Preschool (2 through 3.5 year-olds), and Senior preschool (3.5 through 5 year-olds). The Lead Teacher (Teacher, Early Childhood II) position will be for the Infant classroom.

The Center serves two primary purposes:

*  To provide and maintain a safe, nurturing, and developmentally appropriate learning environment for young children in the context of establishing mutually supportive partnerships with families * To afford a meaningful learning experience for university students earning academic credit in early childhood education and other related disciplines through on-site teaching and mentoring.

Responsibilities The person selected for the position of an Early Childhood Education (ECE) Teacher will be responsible for planning, organizing, and implementing an individualized developmentally-based and/or integrated thematic/project approach curriculum as appropriate. In addition, the ECE Teacher is directly responsible for supervising, mentoring, training, and/or working closely with other teaching staff, university practicum students, and program parents to ensure that continuity of quality care and education is maintained according to national accreditation standards. The general work schedule is Monday through Friday (full-time) with variable hours between 7:30 AM and 5:30 PM. More specifically, the ECE Teacher:

• Facilitates an effective program to meet the physical, social, emotional, language, and cognitive needs of each child based upon sound child development principles.
• Secures the health, safety, welfare, and accountability of children through constant supervision, effective arrangement of space, proper maintenance of equipment, and regular practice of fire and other emergency procedures.
• Ensures that families receive adequate information about their childs experiences at the center through daily contacts, information letters, and regularly scheduled teacher/family conferences.
• Plans, organizes, and implements daily routines across indoor and outdoor spaces, curriculum plans, appropriate learning environments, space arrangement, child assessments, and parent interactions.
• Conducts ongoing needs assessment of each child and maintains written records and portfolios to monitor progress in all areas of development and for incorporating into curriculum planning.
• Maintains for the ordered arrangement, appearance, dcor, and learning environment of all classroom areas and outdoor play areas.
• Assets in training and supervising practicum students in such a way that each is actively engaged in meeting the individual needs of each child in all... For full info follow application link.

USU recognizes and values the importance of diversity and inclusion in enriching the employment experience of its employees and in supporting the university's academic mission of learning, discovery, and engagement. USU is an Equal Opportunity employer and does not discriminate in any of its programs and activities based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, genetic information, sexual orientation or gender identity/expression, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by University policy or local, state, or federal law (https://eq uity.usu.edu/non-discrimination).