Associate Teacher - Jerome Preschool

Employer: Saginaw Intermediate School District Location: Jerome Preschool, Saginaw, Michigan Department: Early Childhood Employment Type: Full-Time Pay: $17.20 - $19.76 per hour (Based on credentials) Reports To: Building Principal, Teacher Schedule: School Year Application Deadline: Open until filled ## About the Program SISD - Saginaw County Head Start is a customer-driven, family friendly program. Staff must be committed to professionalism, cooperation, teamwork and tolerance with families, children, co-workers, supervisors and the community. ## 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 for program operations. ## Duties and Responsibilities Professional Development - Attends required Head Start and Michigan State Licensing training, workshops, on-line 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. Preschool Program Implementation - 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. - Ensures learning environments are safe from hazards, free from clutter, and allow visibility of children by utilizing the Daily Health and Safety Checklist. - Fosters self-esteem, self-direction, self-control and school readiness through positive methods, modeling, and curriculum development and implementation. - Complies with program curriculum 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, analyzes data, and makes individualized plans or referrals. - Supervises and eats meals with children to model nutrition, social skills and language in a family style environment under Head Start Performance Standards. - Assists with identifying and arranging for parents to volunteer in the classroom. - Assists the Teacher with collecting monthly in-kind records from parents and community members participating in the program. - 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<