Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC)·Prior Lake, Minnesota
The Educare Teacher is responsible for planning and implementing developmentally appropriate curriculum while supervising children and ensuring a safe, clean environment. They also mentor staff on teaching strategies and maintain clear, professional communication with families regarding child progress and needs.
Playworks is seeking a strong, experienced Educare Teacher to join our team.
This role provides care, supervision, and developmental support while planning and implementing organized activities, smooth transitions, and developmentally appropriate curriculum across all learning domains.
The Educare Teacher mentors and trains staff on teaching strategies, behavior guidance, and classroom management, while maintaining a safe, clean, and engaging environment.
This position also leads clear communication with families, conducts family conferences, supports child transitions, and partners with management on individual child needs and behavior concerns.
Enjoy weekly pay, on-site clinics, and health benefits.
Whatever your career goals may be, let SMSC help get you there!
Monitors the wellbeing 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 mentor's 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 mentor's 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.
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
Minnesota special education classroom teacher roles are often in steady demand because districts need licensed educators who can support diverse learner needs. Competition is strongest for candidates who already hold a current Minnesota special education license and bring classroom management, presentation, and instructional technology skills. Review the AI-summarized requirements and benefits on this platform to save research time, then confirm your license status and prepare examples of how you’ve handled instruction and behavior support.
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