Guadalupe Centers·Kansas City, Missouri
Assist in creating a quality early childhood learning environment and implementing lesson plans to support children's social, emotional, and physical development. Collaborate with lead teachers to document child progress and maintain professional relationships with families and staff.
To assist with creating a quality program and a class environment conducive to learning and personal growth; to establish effective rapport with children; to establish a respectful, supportive, and collaborative relationship with children, families, and staff.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This job operates in an early childhood school and professional environment.
This role continually uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines.
Guadalupe Centers serves a diverse population, including children, adolescents, and adults, who may have mental or behavioral health problems.
Consequently, all GC staff must demonstrate appropriate daily behavior, appropriate expression of emotions, and appropriate role modeling.
Hostility, aggression, unnecessary or inappropriate physical actions and inappropriate emotional expression are not acceptable behaviors for our employees.
The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to sit, stand and talk or hear.
The employee is also frequently required to walk, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 45 pounds.
The employee must occasionally push items of 45 lbs. such as pushing children on a bike or moving/rearranging furniture.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and depth perception.
The employee is directly responsible for safety, wellbeing, and work output.
This job's specific vision abilities include close vision, such as reading handwritten or typed material and adjusting focus. The position requires the individual to meet multiple demands from several people and interact with the public and other staff.
GUADALUPE CENTERS, INC. conforms to all the laws, statutes, and regulations concerning equal employment opportunity and affirmative action. We strongly encourage women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and veterans to apply to all of our job openings. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, who fully and actively supports equal access for all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability status, Genetic Information or Testing, Family and Medical Leave, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law, and prohibits retaliation against individuals who bring forth any complaint, orally or in writing, to the employer or the government, or against any individuals who assist or participate in the investigation of any complaint, or otherwise oppose discrimination.
Guadalupe Centers, Inc. does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations. These activities include, but are not limited to, hiring and firing of staff, selection of volunteers and vendors, and provision of services. We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of our staff, clients, volunteers, subcontractors, vendors, and clients.
Guadalupe Centers, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative action measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
Market context
Assistant Teacher openings in Missouri are often driven by steady classroom support needs in early childhood and K-12 settings. These roles can be competitive because employers commonly look for reliability, a high school diploma or GED, age eligibility, and a clean background check, while benefits may include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, and paid training. Review the AI-summarized requirements and benefits here to save time, then confirm the school’s schedule, classroom age group, and onboarding steps before applying.