First Steps 4K Teacher

Summary

Crescent Child Development Center, LLC (SC#25287) is looking for exceptional and dedicated employees who want to make a difference in the lives of children and their families!Crescent Child Development Center's mission is to provide an innovative and inclusive learning environment that supports each child's unique abilities and interests.

We are committed to excellence and facilitating the growth and development of both staff and students.Our focus is to provide an accessible, high-quality, and developmentally appropriate educational experience that promotes social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development for children 6 weeks and older in a nurturing environment. Our instruction focuses on language and communication development through participation in exploration, play and socialization opportunities, activities of daily living, and evidence-based curriculum activities.

Duties

The 4K First Steps Teacher is responsible for implementing the Creative Curriculum, working with the 4K First Steps Coach, providing age-appropriate instruction, managing the day-to-day operational activities of the classroom, maintaining children's hygiene, monitoring children for health, behavioral, and emotional concerns, working with parents to ensure that children are learning and socializing in a positive way and assisting with preparing and serving meals, and teach school readiness skills.

The Teacher must understand children's cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development in order to ensure a safe and stimulating classroom environment. The teacher will actively engage, encourage, care for and nurture preschool students.

Requirements

If you are an energetic, patient, inventive, and compassionate team player, come share your talents with us and be on the ground floor of creating a diverse and cohesive learning community where both children and adults can flourish and have fun in a setting that teaches to the strengths and celebrates the differences of each individual.

• Eligible to work in the United States
• Associates or higher
• 6 months or more of experience in a DSS-licensed childcare facility
• Be 18 years of age.
• Provide a record of immunizations and a health screening questionnaire.
• Must clear state and federal background checks and pass a health screening.
• Have an issued form of identification

Nice To Haves

The Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential, 4-year Degree, or Masters in Early Childhood Education.

Benefits

Our benefits for full-time staff: paid holidays, paid time off, physician telemedicine services, child tuition discounts, and sibling priority. All staff will have access to center meals and snacks while working, paid annual professional development hours, paid initial and ongoing CPR training, advanced training in behavior management and curriculum implementation, and assistance with gaining a CDA (worth college credit toward an Early Childhood degree).

Hourly pay is commensurate with related experience, training, and education.