About the Department and Role

JobTrain’s Child Development Center serves the children of our clients as well as those of other parents in the community.  Our teachers use an emergent play-based approach to nurture and stimulate children's development.

We are seeking a lead preschool teacher for current team of preschool teachers. This team of professionals is responsible for overseeing the classroom environment and teaching children including, but not limited to, instruction, evaluation, and parent conferences regarding the development and progression of each child.  We serve up to 24 diverse children and use a Play-based Learning Curriculum in an active, team-oriented classroom setting.

Our onsite work schedule is: Monday - Friday 6:45am - 5:00pm (8-hour shifts scheduled within these hours)

Lead Teacher Role Overview

The Lead Teacher serves as a positive role model for staff, parents, and children. S/he is responsible for demonstrating respectful communication, effective problem-solving, and sound priority-setting skills while maintaining a consistently positive and professional attitude. The Lead Teacher provides supervision, guidance, and training to Teachers, Teacher Aides, Interns, and Parent Volunteers daily and/or as needed.
S/he must possess strong written communication skills and maintain accurate and up-to-date documentation for each child. The Teacher is responsible for the overall care and development of children, which includes teaching, implementing a culturally relevant curriculum, and creating a developmentally appropriate classroom environment.

Essential Duties

Curriculum

• Develop and implement a high-quality play-based curriculum that foster children’s cognitive, language and literacy, social-emotional, and physical development in accordance with the California State Preschool Program (CSPP) and California Preschool Curriculum Framework.
• Planning & Organization: Ability to plan and organize age-appropriate curriculum and learning experiences.

• Collaborate with the Teachers to ensure a balance of child-directed and adult-directed activities each day, incorporating both individual and small-group experiences that support development in literacy, language, numeracy, problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, concept formation and CLASS standards.

• Use a variety of strategies to promote and support children’s learning, including informal and formal observations, on-going assessments, and documentation of progress. Maintain accurate and individualized records of children’s developmental progress using the Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP), including detailed observations, work samples, and photos.
• Conduct developmental screenings and child assessments, prepare and submitting required reports within established deadlines.
• Prepare individualized Summary or Your Child’s Development specifying each child’s strengths and developmental goals and the mutual education plan with the parents.

• Provide materials and equipment that offer a variety of engaging, developmentally appropriate, and age-appropriate learning experiences.
• Ensure that the classroom environment meets all safety standards established by the program and complies with state and federal regulations.
• Maintain a well-organized, clean, and pleasant classroom where both children and adults feel comfortable and secure (e.g., children’s toys and staff materials are properly labeled).
• Conduct transitions in a consistent, timely, predictable, and calm manner according to each child’s individual needs.
• Create an environment and implement curriculum that supports and encourages acceptance and respect for diversity, including gender, culture, language, ethnicity, and family composition.

• Plan and implement outdoor learning experiences that enhance children’s physical, cognitive, and social development.
• Actively interact with and closely supervise children during all outdoor activities to ensure safety and engagement.
• Demonstrate the ability to bend, lift, and carry a child (up to 50 lbs.) when needed and effectively manage groups of children in outdoor environments.