On-Call Teacher

The mission of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for homeless and at-risk families, children, and individuals throughout Colorado. The Coalition advocates for and provides a continuum of housing and a variety of services to improve the health, well-being, and stability of those it serves.
Works as part of a team in the Renaissance Children’s Center to provide for the educational, physical, social, and emotional needs of the children within a specific classroom.

Coalition Benefits 

• Choice of HMO or PPO health insurance coverage options: full-time employees contribute only 1% of their earnings for their own HMO health coverage and no more than 4% of their earnings for coverage of eligible dependents. We’re proud to offer same-and opposite-sex domestic partner coverage. 
• Choice of dental insurance or discount plan. 
• Vision insurance.  
• Flexible spending accounts for health care / dependent care / parking expenses. 
• Free basic life and AD&D insurance coverage. 
• Employee Assistance Program, a problem-solving resource available to you and your household members. 
• Dollar-for-dollar retirement plan matching contributions up to 5% of earnings with 3-year vesting. 
• Extensive paid time-off, including 9 holidays, 12 days of sick leave, and three weeks of vacation for new full-time employees in their first year. 
The effective date for your benefits will be the first of the month following your date of hire.

Essential Job Functions 

• Maintains positive and respectful interactions with others by greeting parents and sharing positive information about his/her child, by refraining from making negative comments about parents, children or other staff members and by providing support for fellow team members and other Renaissance Children’s Center (RCC) staff.
• Plans and provides an environment, which is, both age and developmentally appropriate for the children in the classroom using the Creative Curriculum.
• Works to build children’s social and emotional skills using Second Step and the Bucket Fillers curriculum.
• Interacts frequently with children showing affection, interest, and respect, as well as remains available and responsive to them.  This includes the playground as well as the classroom.
• Plans and implements activities that stimulate the children’s higher-level thinking skills.
• Serves as a facilitator and co-researcher to the children’s acquisition of skills and knowledge.
• Utilizes guidance techniques which will not only provide for a safe and orderly classroom but allow the children to develop problem-solving skills and responsibility for their own behavior. Involves parents through documentation of activities as well as encourages parents to participate in curriculum development and other classroom activities.
• Participates in parent-teacher conferences at least twice per year.
• Maintains and oversees documentation of children’s progress through regular observation, anecdotal records, and collection of children’s work into a portfolio. Makes entries into Teaching Strategies GOLD throughout the year and completes checkpoints quarterly.
• Works with administration to provide a safe and sanitary environment for the children in the room.  This includes hand washing and using Universal Precautions when dealing with bodily fluids.
• Monitors the numbers of children present in each classroom and remains aware of every child’s whereabouts at all times.
• Monitors the condition and supply of materials within each classroom; replaces supplies as necessary.
• Rotates materials with other classrooms to provide a challenging and exciting environment.
• Provides weekly lesson plans, which reflect flexibility and sensitivity to the formulation of activities based on the children’s questions and interests.
• Provides a print-rich environment, which fosters children’s growth in reading and writing.
• Takes and uses pictures in the classroom to provide documentation of children’s activities for them as well as their parents.
• Shares control of the direction of curriculum and activities with the children as appropriate.
• Participates in at least 15 hours of staff development each year.
• Maintains knowledge of and can meet criteria for high quality programs as presented in either the Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale or the School-Age Care Environmental Rating Score, depending on the assigned classroom.  Classroom must receive and maintain at least a 5.0 rating on the appropriate scale.
• Maintains knowledge of and can meet criteria for high quality programs as presented by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)