State Lead Teacher

Infant/Toddler

Part-time

Sedalia, MO

SUMMARY: The Center for Human Services (CHS) has provided exceptional opportunities for Missouri citizens with intellectual and developmental disabilities since 1955. CHS provides programs and services to assist individuals with disabilities and their families to meet their goals, and experience their best lives while living, working, playing, and becoming a part of their communities. As an organization, we are leaders in excellence, we have a steadfast commitment to solutions, we respect all differences, abilities, and similarities in our employees and clients, and we advocate autonomy!

On a daily basis, works with children, teachers, and parents in an effective and developmentally appropriate approach for early childhood programs by performing the following duties.

• Leads the classroom using principles supporting a high-quality environment for infants and toddlers.
• Ensures the materials and supplies are available in the classrooms.
• Develops and implements curriculum, which reflect mandated elements and components, parental and cultural influences, and promotes the social, emotions, physical, approaches to learning and cognitive development as found in the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF).
• Establishes a close working relationship with EHS families by demonstrating an attitude of respect and establishing a trusting relationship.
• Creates weekly lesson plans addressing individual goals for children.
• Responsible for education, and health requirements of children in assigned classroom, including all required screenings.
• Ensures ongoing assessments and documents weekly child observations.
• Ensures ongoing communication with parents through daily sheets, phone calls, home visits, conferences, distribution of newsletters, flyers and other information to families as instructed by supervisor.
• Responsible for Home visits, Parent Trainings and Parent Conferences as required to meet program requirements, which includes meeting the needs of working families in the evening, as needed.
• Serves as a resource to enrolled families in helping to identify, refer and assist families in making connections to other supportive agencies that will support self-sufficiency.
• During Home Visits, assists families in identification of child’s School Readiness Goals, supports family’s observations skills and implementation of strategies for co-teaching at home.
• Assists parents in improving their skills to optimize the home environment and attain self-sufficiency.
• Assists families in identification of goals for Individualized Family Partnership Plan and implementation of Family goals.
• Enters data and documentation into Child Plus and Teaching Strategies GOLD. Ensuring that all files are complete, accurate and confidentially maintained.
• Maintain a comprehensive and ongoing portfolio assessment in GOLD for each child, including weekly observations, examples of the child’s work, child individual/coping plan.
• Organizes and assists with monthly parent meetings.
• Organizes and maintains caseload files.
• Collaborates with First Steps, as needed, for children with disabilities.
• Performs a role consistent with no less than a Level 1 teacher per the agency’s PBC coaching plan.
• More duties listed on the job description.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
• Completion of the Infant & Toddler CDA credential program. Credentials must be maintained as a term of employment.

OPENING DATE: July 1, 2022

CLOSING DATE: Until Filled

SHIFTS: (PT 30-39 hrs.) Mon-Fri: 9am-3:30pm

PAY RANGE:

CHS is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment every day.

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