Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC)·Prior Lake, Minnesota
This role involves supervising children, ensuring their safety and well-being while supporting their emotional, mental, and knowledge growth through developmentally appropriate activities and curriculum implementation. The teacher will also be responsible for training and mentoring other employees, maintaining clear communication with families, and overseeing classroom records and environment.
Come join the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community at our early education center, Playworks as an Educare Teacher!
In this role you will subbing into different classrooms and support the teachers in the classroom in the emotional, mental, and knowledge growth of our young minds.
The ideal for this opportunity is someone who is passionate about working with children, patient, has positive communications.
Enjoy weekly pay, on-site clinics, and health benefits.
Whatever your career goals may be, let SMSC help get you there!
Monitors the well being and safety of the children, contributes to the sales and retention, through positive communication, with families, and ensure the planning, preparation, and implementation of developmentally appropriate curriculum. Trains and mentors other employees in department. Ability to work in a Team Environment. Enjoys working with children.
The
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Supervises children while providing care and support to children. Responsible for the care, hygiene, learning, and developmental activities, specialized programs, and redirection of children. Promotes positive child interactions.
Organized activities and smooth transitions are planned and implemented. Trains and ensures employees are providing quality transitions.
Develops and oversees weekly curriculum involving the following areas: Physical, Cognitive, Social, Language, and Cultural/Gender appropriate. Oversees the daily preparation of the environment to provide developmentally appropriate activities. Ensure that the activities are meeting the learning objectives for the curriculum.
Uses and mentors employees on a variety of teaching strategies to enhance children’s learning and development. Makes sure the classroom environment is appropriate
Oversees the process of written communications to families ensuring appropriate language and format is used on every form when communicating to families. Passes on information or concerns to Supervisor. Communicates information to families.
Completes biannual family conference and informal conferences when needed. Oversees employees fill out forms correctly and develops goals with families on individual child.
Works with Manager on developmental transitions of children. Ensure families, employees and environment is kept up to date with information on new children. Is aware of each child’s individual file and communicates information to other employees.
Keeps work environment safe for children and employees. Maintains classroom records, cleanliness, and orderliness. Equipment is sanitized regularly.
Is calm and patient with children. Follows through on making sure accurate information is conveyed to families and works with Manager on any behavior concerns. Uses and mentors on Playworks behavior guide techniques.
Knows special needs of individual children and works with Manager and families to develop individual child care plans. Allergy sheets are current and communicated to appropriate departments.
Oversees the process of injuries/incidents and completes forms using appropriate language. Communicates to families and Supervisor with confidentiality a priority.
Communicates effectively with children, customers and employees in a variety of ways keeping high quality customer service and confidentiality a priority.
Able to implement and train employees on evacuation and emergency procedures. Train children on evacuation and emergency procedures.
Oversees enrollment/authorizations up to date and changes are communicated to employees and manager if needed.
Ensures that emergency bags and data cards are checked and up to date for all programs.
Ensures the release of children to authorized people only. Trains and oversees appropriate procedures for leaving the building.
Enjoy competitive weekly pay, outstanding benefits and advancement opportunities. Generous benefits include medical, dental, life and disability insurance, onsite medical clinics and pharmacy, 401(k) retirement plan, paid time off, wellness programs and more. Plus, take advantage of perks like discounts on childcare, fuel, bus passes and fitness membership, free uniforms, free uniform cleaning and tuition reimbursement.
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community contributes both time and financial resources across the region, state, and country. The SMSC has donated more than $400 million to organizations and causes, provided $500 million in economic development loans to other tribes, and contributed millions more to support regional governments and infrastructure. The SMSC's Native Green initiative annually diverts hundreds of tons of waste from landfills, has implemented compostable containers throughout our properties, and restored hundreds of acres of prairie land. Team members are eligible to participate in SMSC Gives, a community outreach initiative that organizes various opportunities in the local community. To empower its team members to take part in the Dakota tradition of giving, the SMSC provides paid hours to team members to volunteer at events. Learn more at shakopeedakota.org
Market context
In Minnesota, substitute Educare teacher roles can be competitive because programs look for candidates who already meet Rule 3 Teacher category expectations, including early childhood experience and leadership skills, plus CPR, First Aid, and a background check. Benefits commonly include medical, dental, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and health coverage. Review the AI-summarized requirements and benefits here to quickly compare fit against the original posting before applying.
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