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Learning Care Group is hiring a Lead Child Care Teacher at La Petite Academy in Plainfield, Illinois. The role focuses on creating interactive learning experiences, supporting preschool children’s development, leading classroom management and curriculum implementation, and building relationships with families. The employer describes benefits, flexible schedules, training, and education assistance, and seeks energetic, dependable, passionate candidates with classroom leadership and lesson-planning experience.
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Brand: La Petite Academy
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Location:
2345 S Route 59
Plainfield,
IL
Join a strong community where all we do is care-for the children and families we serve every day, as well as for our dedicated team members. Our people are our best asset. We listen and we know what you're looking for:
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You want benefits. We support you with a minimum 50% childcare discount, immediate access to benefits, innovative health programs, 401(k) company match, and much more.
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You want balance. We offer flexible schedules that work for you, no nights or weekends, the ability to bring your children to work with you, and paid time off.
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You want opportunity. We invest in your future with ongoing training, tuition reimbursement, credential assistance, and our unique Master Teacher Program.
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You want recognition. We provide a positive, fun workplace where employees are appreciated.
This is more than just a daycare job. It’s a journey, where you learn, grow, thrive—and play—every day. Being a teacher at a child care center is something special. We’re hiring and we want difference makers who will inspire children to become lifelong learners.
As a Lead Teacher, you’ll:
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Create! Develop fun, interactive learning experiences while mentoring fellow Teachers.
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Care! Promote the social, physical, and intellectual growth of the preschool children in your class.
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Call the shots! Take the lead on classroom management and curriculum implementation, plus be an expert on all licensing guidelines and company standards.
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Communicate! Build sincere relationships with enrolled and prospective families to promote achievement for the child and to support your center’s success.
We want energetic, dependable, passionate individuals who are at least 18 and have:
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Experience leading a classroom and creating educational lesson plans.
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The ability to meet state requirements for education and our childcare center requirements.
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The ability to work indoors or outdoors and engage in physical activity with children.
Compensation and Benefits:
Compensation based on Position, Education and Experience. Bi-weekly and Daily Pay options
Assistant Teacher- $17.25- $18.75 hourly
Teacher/ Lead Teacher- $18.50- $20.50 hourly
Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, and FSA) provided for full-time employees, Limited medical offered for part-time workers
Education assistance including tuition reimbursement and certification, 401K (plus company match), life and disability insurance and child care discount available to all employees
Monday-Friday work week
Learning Care is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against an employee or applicant based on race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status or any other protected status under federal, state, or local law.
How this job compares
Set against the 941 open Preschool Teacher jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$18.5–20.5/hr
- US median$18–21/hr550 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $19.50/hr, is close to the US median midpoint ($19/hr) — in the middle half of Preschool Teacher hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 19 open Preschool Teacher jobs in Illinois and 941 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- Learning Care Group (this employer)330 open
- Cadence Education167 open
- Bright Horizons58 open
- Experience
- Preschool Teacher postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median (177 postings).
- Education
- 65 of the 941 open Preschool Teacher jobs (7%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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