Early Childhood Substitute
Trinity School for Children
Location
Tampa, Florida
Salary
$16 - $18 / HOUR
Quick overview
The substitute will supervise and care for children from infancy through Pre-K to ensure a safe and healthy learning environment. They will also assist in implementing educational activities and maintaining an organized classroom.
Requirements summary
Candidates must be at least 18 years old and possess a high school diploma or equivalent. One year of experience working with children is preferred, and applicants must pass background and reference checks.
Job description
Do you love children and need a flexible schedule?
This opportunity may be for you!
Join Trinity School for Children's Early Childhood Substitute Team!
Work with students ages infant through Pre-K on an as-available, as-needed basis!
Position Summary
Help to implement learning experiences that advance the intellectual, emotional, social, and physical development of children within a safe, healthy learning environment. In this role you will care for children, infants through pre-k. Trinity offers a great learning environment to build your career in education. Earn hours towards your Staff Credential, CDA, or CDA equivalent!
Essential Functions
- Supervision- Continuously monitors the children at all times to ensure safety.
- Interaction with children- Use appropriate language and positive discipline; model appropriate behavior; treat all children with dignity and respect.
- Communication- Maintains confidentiality of program and client related information.
- Classroom maintenance- Help to maintain a clean and organized learning environment.
- Collaboration- Interacts and maintains effective relationships with children and administration.
- Physical expectation- Able to stand, walk, sit, use hands, stoop, kneel, crouch, sit on the floor, lift and/or move up to 40 pounds.
Fun Fact!
- Trinity School for Children partners with USF's PWPS program, to support the success of our Early Childhood Associates and Teachers!
- We provide ongoing training and coaching of PBS, with members of our PBS Leadership Team serving as coaches and mentors.
- PWPBS is a conceptual model of evidence-based practices, called The Pyramid Model. The Pyramid Model promotes young children's (birth to five years old) social-emotional competence and prevents and addresses challenging behavior, through a tiered promotion, prevention, intervention framework.
- Learn more about PWPBS here: PWPBS_Brochure.pdf [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W0fVE7yVly9h1FadNqmDLhtCmw0gPnb_/view?usp=sharing]
Our Credo
- What potentialities in human beings - children, teachers and ourselves - do we want to see develop?
- A zest for living that comes from taking in the world with all five senses alert
- Lively intellectual curiosities that turn the world into an exciting laboratory and keep one ever a learner
- Flexibility when confronted with change and ability to relinquish patterns that no longer fit the present
- The courage to work, unafraid and efficiently, in a world of new needs, new problems and new ideas
- Gentleness combined with justice in passing judgments on other human beings
- Sensitivity, not only to the external formal rights of the "other fellow" but to him as another human being seeking a good life through his own standards
- A striving to live democratically, in and out of schools, as the best way to advance our concept of democracy
- Our credo demands ethical standards as well as scientific attitudes. Our work is based on faith that human beings can improve the society they have created.
- Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Founder of Bank Street College of Education, 1916
Position Requirements
- Must be at least 18 years of age
- HS diploma or equivalent
- One (1) year of experience working with children; preferred
- Pre-employment requirements include satisfactory reference checks, drug screen (employer paid), and criminal background check ($95) https://info.flclearinghouse.com
Learn more about our organization
Benefits
- Coaching
- Mentorship
- Ongoing training