Associate Teacher- Brucker

Employer: Saginaw Intermediate School District Location: Brucker, Birch Run, Michigan Department: Early Childhood Employment Type: Full-Time Pay: $17.20 - $19.76/hr (Based on Credentials) ## General Summary Assists the Teacher in planning and executing daily Head Start classroom operations, building family relationships, promoting parent involvement, implementing Head Start Performance Standards and covering teacher planning and absences. Additional duties and classroom/center reassignment may be required. ## Duties and Responsibilities Professional Development - Attends required Head Start and Michigan State Licensing training, workshops, online training and cluster meetings. - Maintains Child Development Associate Credential (CDA) and works toward obtaining an Associate's degree. - Keeps current on Head Start Performance Standards, child care licensing, Developmentally Appropriate Practice and applicable regulations. - Knows occupational disease and injury prevention regulations, universal precautions and contamination prevention. - Maintains professional certification required by Head Start and ISD standards. - Actively participates in opportunities for continuous professional development. Preschool Program Implementation - Supports social and emotional development and provides positive guidance and discipline, including support for students with challenging behaviors using developmentally appropriate practices. - Staff may be asked to cover other classrooms to meet licensing ratios. - Assists in all aspects of the classroom and other service areas of the program. - Participates in recruitment activities and transportation services. - Assumes the role of Teacher when required, implementing all aspects of the program. - Assists with delivery of Head Start services under Head Start Performance Standards and Saginaw ISD Head Start Operational Procedures. - Assists in establishing a safe, healthy, stimulating, developmentally appropriate environment for children birth to five of all abilities. - Uses the Daily Health and Safety Checklist to ensure hazard-free, clutter-free environments with visibility of children. - Fosters self-esteem, self-direction, self-control and school readiness through positive methods, modeling, and curriculum development and implementation. - Complies with program curriculum, curriculum overlays and supplemental curriculum, State of Michigan Licensing for child care centers and the Head Start Program Performance Standards. - Assists in screening, observing, and assessing children's development on a regular basis, analyzing data, and making plans or referrals specific to the needs of the individual child. - Supervises and eats meals with children to model nutrition, social skills and language in a family style environment under Head Start Performance Standards. - Assists in arranging parent classroom volunteers. - Assists the Teacher in collecting monthly in-kind records from parents and community members. - Assists with kitchen duties, including warming up food, dishing food into bowls, taking food temperatures and cleaning the refrigerator and warmer. - Assists with bus aide duties, including riding the bus, completing bus paperwork and buckling children in seats on the bus. ## Knowledge and Abilities Knowledge of the purpose of the Head Start/Early Head Start program. Maintains strict confidentiality for children, famili