Lead Teacher

Hybrid-based

ONET: 25-2011.00

2

Years

55

Skills

329h

Related instructions

8000h

On-the-job training

Classroom instruction topics

Health & Safety Orientation - Maine Roads to Quality
Pediatric First Aid and CPR - American Red Cross
Observation and Assessment in Early Childhood
Education of Young Children with Special Needs
Child Guidance and Discipline
Curriculum in Early Childhood Education (Birth to age 3)
Curriculum in Early Childhood Education (Ages 3-8)
Management Professional and Personal Development in Early Childhood Education
Teaching, Learning, and Technology

On-the-job training

Monthly OJT Hours
Relationships and Classroom Community
- Connects with families and children to make them feel welcomed, safe and respected ensuring individual student needs are accounted for
- Provides and supports staff in communicating clear and consistent behavioral expectations and minimizes transitions by designing classroom organization through intentional preparation and lesson planning
- Plans, supervises and facilitates children’s involvement in all learning environment’s using a variety of modalities
- Work under the guidance and direction of the Program Director to ensure growth in the area of child development through data and observations
- Promotes and maintains a positive climate and assures that all staff are responsive to child perspectives
- Provides frequent opportunities to engage in adult child interactions, encouraging self- help skills, ensuring staff participation promotes engagement and facilitates peer interactions during family style meals
Assessment and Curriculum
- Actively participates in curriculum planning sessions to develop clear learning objectives for optimal learning and designing unit lesson plans and supports teaching staff with professional development objectives
- Share observations and provide ongoing documentation and record keeping on children as requested by Program Director
- Recommends best practices to Director and designs lessons emphasizing children’s interests, culture, School Readiness goals, State Guidelines, physical activity recommendations.
- Embraces, promotes, directs and participates in bi-lingual curriculum delivery outlined by the facility and provides support for staff as needed
- Promote children's love of language, culture, learning, and playing alongside each other to prepare for success in school maintaining and supervising a safe, caring, and respectful environment where children are encouraged by adults and peers to express themselves
Health and Nutrition
- In partnership with the Program Director, will work with assistant teacher to ensure timely implementation and review results of child screenings within required timeframes.
- Completes required meals and attendance records and submits to Director
- Initiates and engages in reflective discussions with families related to health and developmental status of child to promote timely health care.
- Assures on-going follow-up and related documentation in a timely manner related to unmet health outcomes and reports outcomes to Director
- Models and promotes healthy eating habits and tooth brushing and provides staff with support
- Models and promotes physical activity by demonstrating being physically active and provides staff with support
- Assures proper cleaning, sanitation and disinfection procedures are followed by staff to promote healthy habits within the classroom environment and reports any concerns to Program Director
Partners with families supporting parent-child relationships and promoting parents as first and most important teachers
- Plans, initiates and participates in regularly planned outreach to parents for involvement with curriculum planning
- Chooses curriculum to identify diverse family values, beliefs, faith traditions, cultural influences, family structure and circumstances and modifies curriculum to reflect family values.
- Assures required parent education topics are being addressed through a variety of individual and group strategies through collaboration with other classroom staff and makes plans to follow up as needed
- Engages parents in classroom and individualized curriculum discussion to establish effective home school connection and provides ongoing outreach
- Recognizes need for and supports meaningful and intentional referrals for the child and families agency programs and provides documentation
- Supports families in crisis by identifying options and resources and applying them to intervene when needed in collaboration with the Program Director.
Program involvement, leadership, advocacy and social connections
- In collaboration with staff and Program Director, facilitate orienting parents and other volunteers, encourage parent participation and visitation in the classroom, attend parent meetings as requested and/or provide childcare
- Actively plans for and facilitates frequent parent participation on child care facility sponsored enrichment activities community events
- Regularly updates and educates parents about child care facility services
Practice safe working habits and contribute to a safe and peaceable workplace
- With Program Director, assist staff in planning and implementing a daily age-appropriate program that meets the needs of groups of children as well as individuals, providing for their health, safety and education
- Ensure the safety of children at all times. Never leave a child unattended or unsupervised and provide expectations to staff in multiple modalities
- Recognize, document and report signs of illness and other concerns to Program Director and support staff in adhering to protocol
- Supervise staff and work with Program Director in maintaining a clean, safe and developmentally appropriate environment for children
- Documents and communicates to staff and Director to assure required emergency procedures are practiced and communicated with families
- Promotes protective factors to prevent child abuse and neglect; identifies and refers families to the Dept. of Health and Human Services Child Protection Services and maintains up to date records of all referrals
Contributes to effective program practices and interdisciplinary approaches
- Demonstrate and promote the facility's child development philosophy, plans and policies, and mission, vision, and values to staff and parents
- Facilitates effective, purposeful and respectful team communications while promoting staff input to promote continuous program improvement
- Assist Program Director and supervise staff in orienting parents and other volunteers, encourage parent participation and visitation in the classroom, attend parent meetings as requested and/or provide child care as needed
- Assume all classroom responsibilities in absence of Assistant Teacher
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with Program Director, center staff, parents and community
- Participate in staff or related meetings as requested
- Work cooperatively as a team member, assisting where needed in the center
Exhibits a positive attitude and a professional, confidential and collaborative approach with supervisor, co-workers, clients, partners and community
- Communicates positively and effectively using appropriate verbal, nonverbal and written messages
- Demonstrates effective and appropriate communication ensuring respect for culture and language
- Promotes community partnerships and initiatives
- Establishes and maintains professional boundaries
- Supports and actively participates in team building and collaboration efforts
Displays a commitment to continuous professional development and reflective practice
- Assesses self, values and ethics as they impact work with families
- Maintains required certifications
- Completes mandated trainings
- Seeks opportunities for ongoing professional growth; implements to improve practice and share with colleagues as appropriate
- Demonstrates progress toward annual evaluation goals
Demonstrates Leadership skills
- Collaborates with state leaders, board members, administrators, colleagues, parents and students towards a common goal
- Shares collective knowledge, content, educational resources and tips for success with colleagues as a mentor
- Administers careful due diligence in adopting curriculum, implementing instruction and employing assessments
- Enables diverse and inclusive learning environments
- Guides collective responsibility, school practices, procedures & policies