Child Care Lead Teacher (20648763)

QUALIFICATIONS:

Knowledge of

• Developmental stages of school-age and preschool children
• Classroom teaching and management practices and techniques including age-appropriate curriculum and activities.
• Basic first aid, health/hygiene, and safety practices
• Customer service and public relations techniques
• Modern office equipment and methods including use of computer applications in word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and databases.

Skill/Ability to

• Conduct, plan, and participate in a variety of activities for preschool and elementary school age children.
• Utilize Microsoft Word application, to create classroom rosters, task lists, and observational notes/assessments.
• Maintain effective group control.
• Communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Maintain patience while working with children.
• Establish and maintain cooperative relationships with those contacted in the course of work.

Experience and Training Guidelines

Any combination of education and experience that would likely provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to qualify is:

Experience:

Two years’ experience in a group setting with preschool or elementary school-age children.

Experience Desired:

1. Three or more years’ experience working at an early childhood or school-aged program.
2. Experience in training full and part-time staff members in a variety of topics.
3. Experience planning curriculum for a variety of age groups.
4. Master Teacher or higher Child Development Permit.
5. Bilingual skills.

Training:

24 units in Child Development including all 12 units of the core child development classes, and 16 general education units. 

AA or higher in Early Childhood Education with a 3-unit supervised field experience class is desired.

Certifications:

Child Care Lead Teachers must have a current Teacher permit from the State of California upon hire date. 

Teacher Permit Requirements:

Option #1:

Experience: One hundred seventy five (175) days experience supervising children as defined as three (3) hours or more per day in the past four (4) years. This experience must be in a group setting working with children aged 2 ½ - 14.

Education: 24 units in Child Development including all 12 units of the core child development classes, and 16 general education units.

Option #2

Experience: One hundred seventy-five (175) days experience supervising children as defined as three (3) hours or more per day in the past four (4) years. This experience must be in a group setting working with children aged 2 ½ - 14.

Education: AA or higher in Early Childhood Education with a 3-unit supervised field experience class.

Red Cross Infant/Child CPR and Red Cross First Aid certifications must be completed within six months of employment.

Licenses:

Current Teacher permit from the State of California upon hire date.

Possession and maintenance of a Class C driver’s license.

All State of California Child Development Permits must be renewed and maintained.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Physical Skills

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, stoop or kneel. Use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands or arms; talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception. The employee must regularly lift, move, and/or carry up to 10 pounds, and occasionally lift, move and/or carry up to 30 pounds.

Working environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to video display; works indoors and outdoors and is frequently exposed to outdoor weather conditions.

All Childcare employees must pass the Department of Justice fingerprinting scan in order to work for the City of Pacifica.