Pre-Kindergarten Lead Teacher

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At Legacy Traditional Schools we do things a special way, in a way that ignites our desire to be the best, illuminates our educators’ best talents, lights up the minds of our students, and fuels our school spirit. We shine the brightest when we raise our hands and rise to the challenge of changing lives through education, cultivating bright curious minds, achieving award-winning results, upholding our values, and engaging positively with our students, parents and communities.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The Preschool Lead Teacher provides a caring, safe, and well-managed environment for children to participate in learning activities and imaginative play. The teacher provides instruction in basic skills such as color, shape, number, and letter recognition as well as social skills. The Lead Teacher establishes clear objectives for all lessons, prepares, organizes, and leads instruction in all activities. The Lead Teacher will lead the evaluation of children's academic performance and social development.  The Lead teacher will communicate with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress. The Lead Teacher ensures the enforcement of all district policies and rules regarding the preschool program. The lead teacher will perform administrative duties such as attending staff meetings and professional development, preparing student progress reports, supervising and evaluating teacher assistants, and conducting an inventory of equipment, materials, and supplies.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Plans, develops and implements age-appropriate curriculum.

• Devise and impart lesson plans on a daily basis.

• Assists students, individually or in small groups, with lesson assignments (e.g. read stories, providing writing assistance, reinforcing language skills, numbers, alphabet, computer learning programs, etc.) for the purpose of practicing and/or reinforcing learning concepts and assisting students in reaching academic goals and grade-level standards.

• Adapts classroom activities, assignments, and/or materials (e.g. art projects, computer, language skills, etc.) for the purpose of supporting and reinforcing classroom goals and objectives.

• Assist students during lunchtime, toileting, and washing activities.

• Enforce cleanup activities by modeling appropriate behavior.

• Maintains classroom equipment, work area, and manual and electronic files and records (e.g. clean/bleach tables, sign-in/sign-out logs, etc.) for the purpose of ensuring availability of items; providing written reference; providing a safe learning environment; and/or meeting mandated requirements.

• Prepare instructional materials (e.g. laminating, making posters, making copies, bulletin boards, filing, newsletters, etc.).

• Provide an environment of comfort and security for young students by indulging in nurturing behavior.

• Reports observations and incidents relating to specific students (e.g. accidents, fights, appropriate and/or inappropriate social behavior, violations of rules, safety conditions, change in behavior, etc.) for the purpose of communicating information to appropriate instructional and/or administrative personnel.

• Maintain ongoing, open communication with parents/caregivers. 

• Provide a classroom environment that encourages parent participation.

• Ensure that each family receives an opportunity to build strong relationships and experience clear communication with teaching staff. 

• Liaison with children’s families to ensure a smooth transition from home to the school setting and transitions from classroom to a classroom when needed. 

• Assist families with children’s transitions from toddler to preschool and from preschool to kindergarten.

• Conduct students’ observations and assessments, as well as students’ conferences.

• Monitors individual and/or groups of students in a variety of settings (e.g. classroom, playground, etc.) for the purpose of providing a safe and positive learning environment.

• Ensures that Teacher Assistants are kept updated in all matters concerning the classroom and program, i.e. lead teacher meetings, lesson plans, policies and procedures, training received, etc. 

• Provide functional training and guidance to