Assistant Early Childhood Teacher, Part Time
About this role
Department
Wimpfheimer Nursery SchoolJob Family
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Job Description
Schedule: Monday - Wednesday, 9:15am - 5:15pm (22.5 hours per week)
Position Summary
Wimpfheimer Nursery School is hiring a part time Assistant Teacher. As an Assistant Teacher, you will support a team approach, working with other educators to develop and implement a high-quality early education and care program that reflects the goals of our laboratory nursery school for children ages 2-5.
Responsibilities
Care for children ages 2-5, under the direction of a Lead Teacher and within a team approach.
Follow OCFS guidelines and regulations for care routines.
Receive feedback and grow professional knowledge and skills in child centered pedagogy, play, care, problem solving and pro-social negotiation skills for young children.
Support and implement daily curriculum experience and care rituals.
Communicate regularly with families.
Organize, clean, and care for the classroom environment, prepare and arrange materials, clean up and set up daily.
Participate in school events including parent conferences, parent night, family socials, professional development.
Participate in mandated yearly professional development and training including infant/child CPR and First Aid.
Support a play based curriculum which includes outdoor play in all seasons.
Required knowledge, skills and abilities:
High school diploma and experience working with young children (ages 0-5)
Desire to grow and increase knowledge in the field of child development.
Cheerful, nurturing, positive team player with collaborative work ethic.
Excellent communication skills
Exemplary role model and warm personality
Able to organize and care for the classroom environment, prepare and arrange materials, clean up and set up.
Must be fingerprinted and complete a background check through the NY State Office of Children and Family Services.
Preferred knowledge, skills and abilities
CDA or Associate's Degree or working towards a degree in early childhood.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORKING ENVIRONMENT
This position requires the candidate to be able to care for children’s physical needs on a consistent basis. Candidates must interact with children on their level; frequent bending, squatting and playing on the floor is expected. Candidates must be able to lift 30 pounds. Candidates must remain alert and productive, able to see and hear children at all times, and capable of active ongoing supervision and safety of individual children and groups of children. The ideal candidate will be comfortable teaching outside in all seasons and all weather. This position requires the ability to perform emotional labor for children who are developing social and emotional skills.
The Assistant Teacher must be capable of managing and supervising small groups of children (up to 7) alone at periods of the day such as when other teachers take lunch breaks. The Assistant teacher may, at times, act as the lead teacher and must have the skills to supervise and manage groups of children in the lead teacher’s absence.
Pay rate: $19.01 per hour
Company at a glance
Formerly the Vassar College Art Gallery, we were the first art museum at a college or university that was part of the institution’s original plan. Today, the Loeb’s permanent collection includes over 22,000 works, comprised of paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, textiles, and glass and ceramic wares. We strive to be a catalyst for scholarly, creative, and social justice work by Vassar students and others. Our undertakings reflect a commitment to broaden, and amplify, the voices represented in the museum setting, and to ensure that the Loeb’s programs and practices have a positive impact on our communities.
IMPACT STATEMENT
By engaging with the Loeb’s collections and programs, individuals build capacity to make meaningful connections—intellectual, creative, emotional—through the visual arts across time, place, and cultures.
COMMITMENT TO DEAI
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College commits to Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusion as core values across its culture, systems, and practices. We pledge to allocate resources (human and financial) to create and sustain a museum culture and program in which difference is celebrated. The Loeb can best serve its communities by examining critically its own history and systemic biases, and working continually to resist discrimination and present a variety of narratives. A fundamental shift in institutional ethos toward equity and inclusion enhances the Loeb’s mission to support the goals of the college.
MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is to enhance and support the College’s goals of leadership, scholarship, and integrative learning. The Loeb achieves this through the preservation, documentation, interpretation, presentation, and development of its collections; and through a dynamic program of temporary exhibitions and educational activities aimed at diverse audiences.
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