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Job Title:Lead Early Childhood Education Teacher
Work Type:Work Days: Weekdays, Work Vary: No , Shift: First (Day), Hours Per Week: 35, Work Type: Regular
 
Salary Offered:$39,000.00 - $43,000.00 Yearly
Benefits:401(k) or other retirement, Dental Insurance, Health Insurance, Holidays, Sick Leave or PTO, Vacation or PTO
 
Physical Required:Unspecified
Drug Testing Required:Unspecified
Education Required:Bachelor's Degree
Experience Required:48 Months
 
Required Skills:
At least 18 years of age

Two or more years of experience teaching toddlers and/or preschoolers required

Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Special Education, Elementary Education, Child Psychology, or Child Development required. Master’s degree in any of the listed areas preferred.
Preferred Skills:
Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Special Education, Elementary Education, Child Psychology, or Child Development required. Master’s degree in any of the listed areas preferred.
Teaching license in Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Special Education, or Elementary Education with kindergarten certification preferred.
Knowledge of trauma and its impact on early development preferred
Bilingual in Spanish or Somali preferred
CPR, First Aid, and Child Passenger Safety certified preferred
 
Driver's License: None Required
Job Description:
Southside Family Nurturing Center is a holistic social service agency with over 40 years of experience serving families in the Phillips community and surrounding neighborhoods of South Minneapolis who are experiencing multiple risk factors. These risk factors include: moderate to severe poverty, family violence, chemical dependency, immigration, homelessness, and mental health. We offer half-day therapeutic preschool and home visiting services to provide support, parent education, and resource referral. Therapeutic interventions are offered to children including speech, occupational, play, and music therapy. All programming, including meals and transportation, is free of charge and families participate in our services voluntarily. Our mission is: "Together with families and community, we nurture children, build on family strengths, and find alternatives to violence."

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Use the play-based High Scope and AMAZE curricula to individualize instruction for a group of approximately 10 toddlers or 16 preschoolers. The focus will be on developing children’s social-emotional skills, emotion regulation and expression of feelings, cultural sensitivity, and friendships with other children.

Take daily anecdotal observations to inform twice-yearly COR and ASQ:SE screenings, caregiver-teacher conferences, child goal-planning, and classroom lesson planning.

Follow a therapeutic preschool model, with an emphasis placed on a predictable schedule and routine, structure, and rules for health and safety. Teachers will work to minimize transitions whenever possible and allow children uninterrupted time to play, learn, and solve problems.

Take a hands-on approach to teaching, understanding that children at-risk for abuse and neglect require calm, consistent, reliable, supportive caregivers who are attuned to their strengths and areas of growth. Be proactive, flexible, mature, and professional.

Prepare and maintain classroom environments that are both therapeutic and developmentally-appropriate, using soothing colors, natural materials, order, and minimized clutter to communicate respect, warmth, and calm to the children. Monitor and obtain supplies, equipment, and repairs for the classroom environments.

Maintain DHS Licensing and NAEYC Accreditation standards, including attention paid to one’s own continuing education.

Maintain a high level of health and safety, ensure emergency procedures are known and practiced, and model a calm response to emergency situations for the children.

Supervise, coordinate, and coach assistant teachers and substitute teachers. Team with the Program Director in recruiting, hiring, and retaining staff. Provide direction to staff in maintaining compliance with Southside Family Nurturing Center policies and procedures.

Team with Family Specialists, Lead Teachers, and the Program Director in planning and facilitating twice-monthly Family Events at Southside Family Nurturing Center. Facilitate weekly classroom team meetings.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear, stand, walk, sit, use hands to fingers, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee frequently is required to climb or balance and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and assist children with diapering and toilet-learning. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision and depth perception.
We seek to reflect the diversity of the Phillips neighborhood in our staff.
This position is eligible for a generous benefits package, including medical and dental insurance and PTO.

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