Infant Toddler Teacher - Port Huron

::: {title=""} ::: {contenteditable="false"} What you'll Do: Position is responsible for the delivery of services in a classroom setting. Responsible for planning and implementing a child development and family support program primarily at the Early Head Start Center. Provide a nurturing and educational environment that meets the individual needs of infants and toddlers. Supervises the Infant-Toddler Caregiver and Early Childhood Aide. Partner and communicate with parents to assure client satisfaction. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Other duties may be assigned. Provide leadership and implementation of a center-based program option; Plan and implement an early education curriculum in a center-based classroom setting that places an emphasis on responsive care, care-giving routines and the caregiver-child relationship; Supervise the Infant-Toddler Caregiver and Early Childhood Aide, communicate clear expectations, provide encouragement, training and support, delegate responsibility appropriately, and address performance issues promptly; Work productively with team members to ensure strengths are utilized and work is completed; Act as primary caregiver to four infants or toddlers as assigned; Maintain files for up to eight children; Utilize required screening and child assessment tools and demonstrate ability to use this information for planning program activities that are outcome-based and purposeful; Conduct ongoing observation of children and plan the curriculum to be responsive and to support each child's individual pattern for development and learning; Plan and provide routines and experiences that advance physical and intellectual competence, support social and emotional development and provide positive guidance to children; Promote child and family literacy to include offering daily literacy and language experiences at the center; Provide a healthy and safe environment that encourages play, exploration and learning; Demonstrate basic safety and handling techniques (universal precautions), emergency procedures, and prevention of communicable and infectious diseases; and assume general responsibility for overall maintenance of the classroom; Monitor and educate parents with regard to children's health status, including medical follow up, physical health, dental health, mental health, and nutritional intake; Provide support services to families including resources, referrals and access to crisis intervention systems; Provide Early On service delivery and/or coordination for children with disabilities; Collaborate with families to establish child and family development goals, and document this collaborative process; Promote parent involvement in curriculum planning, program governance, and the overall program; Obtain and document in-kind through parent participation to reach program's nonfederal share target; Promote and support father involvement in the program; Communicate regularly with parents: person to person, written notes and reports, phone contact, newsletters, and web-based assessment tool; Act as a liaison and advocate between community resources and EHS families; Coordinate with Head Start programs or other preschools to facilitate a smooth transition for the child and family to a new program setting; begin the transition process 6 months prior to the child's third birthday; Main ::: :::