Lead Infant Room Teacher

• Our wonderful neighborhood preschool has an immediate opening for an enthusiastic, fun-loving and creative lead baby room teacher who has a passion for creating impactful learning opportunities for our youngest learners.
• We offer competitive pay and benefits!
• As a lead teacher, you responsibilities include but are not limited to: Planning and implementing a weekly lesson plan according to developmentally appropriate practices and school values.
• Nurturing physical, spiritual, emotional, social, and intellectual growth and development of each child Monitoring the development and learning of the children, and for communicating this information to parents and Director.
• Providing care, protection, and guidance to the children Classroom setup and arrangement

Qualifications

Minimum of one year in a DECAL licensed baby room CDA, or higher degree Judaic knowledge or willingness to acquire Child CPR certification or willingness to acquire Ability to meet Georgia requirements for employment in a preschool setting Familiarity with NAEYC and BFTS guidelines

Physical demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to move from standing to crouching to sitting on the floor and back to standing.
• The employee must be able to use hands and fingers to reach, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and see, talk and hear.
• The employee must be able to lift children up to 50 lbs.
• The employee must be able to lift and carry children and equipment, spend time on the floor or child-sized furniture.
• They will be expected to clean and maintain equipment and facility and must be able to move throughout the community with children.
• The teacher will be working in a busy and occasionally noisy environment.
• There may be a number of activities and situations happening at once, and the preschool teacher will have to supervise all children at all times.
• The preschool teacher may come into contact with children who are ill and/or contagious, and must take precautions to ensure the health and safety of all children, parents, staff and themselves.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.