Early Head Start Teacher Assistant
Full Time • Arlington Child Development Center (ACD)
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Training & development
- Vision insurance
SUMMARY
The Early Head Start Teacher Assistant is responsible for assisting and supporting school readiness and monitoring developmental outcomes while providing responsive caregiving and developmentally appropriate and inclusive learning experiences for enrolled children, specifically infants and toddlers. The Early Head Start Teacher Assistant is also responsible for assisting in creating and supporting a positive high-quality early learning environment, and the overall educational emphasis of the classroom in alignment with the Head Start Early Learning Outcome Framework; Birth to Five and the Texas PreK guidelines.
RESPONSIBILITIES
● Articulating and demonstrating sound early childhood principles and best practices with knowledge of Head Start Performance Standards.
● Provide for the basic needs of children including instructing children on health and personal habits such as eating, resting and toilet habits, teaching daily living skills or behaviors, and accompanying individuals or groups to activities.
● Observe and monitor children's play activities by maintaining a safe play environment, sanitizing toys and play equipment, dressing children and changing diapers, organizing and storing toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas, and performing administrative tasks such as attendance and internal paperwork.
● Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, analyzing information, and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
● Communicate effectively with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues and provide information to supervisors, co-workers, and other stakeholders by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
● Assisting in the implementation of lesson plans, routines, and curricula while demonstrating professionalism in decision-making and leadership.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
● Child Development Associate Credential (age-specific, or all level)
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES
● Ability to obtain and demonstrate a basic understanding of child development, Center for Transforming Lives policies and procedures, and regulatory requirements (including but not exclusively Texas Child Care Licensing Minimum Standards for Child Care Centers).
● Ability to learn to appropriately offer basic feedback to parents about a child’s day-to-day interaction and begin to build expertise and understanding to suggest and recommend actions.
The Early Head Start Teacher Assistant is responsible for assisting and supporting school readiness and monitoring developmental outcomes while providing responsive caregiving and developmentally appropriate and inclusive learning experiences for enrolled children, specifically infants and toddlers. The Early Head Start Teacher Assistant is also responsible for assisting in creating and supporting a positive high-quality early learning environment, and the overall educational emphasis of the classroom in alignment with the Head Start Early Learning Outcome Framework; Birth to Five and the Texas PreK guidelines.
RESPONSIBILITIES
● Articulating and demonstrating sound early childhood principles and best practices with knowledge of Head Start Performance Standards.
● Provide for the basic needs of children including instructing children on health and personal habits such as eating, resting and toilet habits, teaching daily living skills or behaviors, and accompanying individuals or groups to activities.
● Observe and monitor children's play activities by maintaining a safe play environment, sanitizing toys and play equipment, dressing children and changing diapers, organizing and storing toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas, and performing administrative tasks such as attendance and internal paperwork.
● Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, analyzing information, and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
● Communicate effectively with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues and provide information to supervisors, co-workers, and other stakeholders by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
● Assisting in the implementation of lesson plans, routines, and curricula while demonstrating professionalism in decision-making and leadership.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
● Child Development Associate Credential (age-specific, or all level)
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES
● Ability to obtain and demonstrate a basic understanding of child development, Center for Transforming Lives policies and procedures, and regulatory requirements (including but not exclusively Texas Child Care Licensing Minimum Standards for Child Care Centers).
● Ability to learn to appropriately offer basic feedback to parents about a child’s day-to-day interaction and begin to build expertise and understanding to suggest and recommend actions.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
For more than 115 years, the Center for Transforming Lives has provided services for low-income women and children. Founded in 1907 as the YWCA® of Fort Worth and Tarrant County, early programs in the 1930s included housing, an employment bureau and childcare for working mothers. In 2015, the organization changed its name to the Center for Transforming Lives to articulate its longstanding mission more clearly.
Today, Center for Transforming Lives partners with single mothers and their children so they can thrive. To disrupt the cycle of poverty, Center for Transforming Lives applies a two-generation framework of essential services that stabilize families and education services that helps them thrive financially and emotionally.
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