Assistant Teacher
The Assistant Teacher at The Goddard School is responsible for assisting the Lead Teacher in establishing and maintaining a safe, healthy, and nurturing learning environment. Additionally, a Lead Teacher is responsible to work together with the Assistant Lead Teacher to create a cohesive learning environment for the children.
Benefits:
- Childcare benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Comprehensive Health Care
- No nights and weekends
- No Holidays
- Paid Training
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Professional Development
- 1 Hour Lunch
- Flexible Schedule
Assistant Teacher qualifications:
- Must possess a high school diploma or higher education.
Assistant Teacher Responsibilities:
An Assistant Teacher’s responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Establish and maintain a safe, healthy, and nurturing learning environment
- Understand and implement The Goddard School® emergency procedure(s)
- Promote healthy eating practices at lunch and snack times
- Ensure that children are always within state ratio requirements
- Perform nominal cleaning responsibilities (eg, spills) immediately
- Adhere to all GSI Health and Safety policies and procedures
- Advance children’s physical and intellectual competence
- Create a multi-cultural learning environment Interact with the children to support play, exploration, and learning
- Encourage children to talk with each other and with the faculty
- Present age- and developmentally appropriate expectations for all children
- Encourage creativity through art, music, dramatic play and blocks
- Provide a reasonable balance between teacher-directed and child-directed activities
- Provide opportunities for both active and quiet play
- Support each child’s social and emotional development and provide positive guidance
- Understand and adhere to the GSI Behavior Policy Implement activities to develop children’s self-esteem and social skills
- Implement activities to enable children’s feeling of security
- Encourage empathetic and respectful feelings for others, as well as the environment, through positive modeling
- Respect cultural and ethnic diversity
- Communicate, in a professional manner, with families and faculty
- Build teamwork
- Manage classrooms according to GSI QA Standards
- Use assessment tools (eg, Progress Reports, Children’s Progress)
- Maintain professional commitment
- Promote GSI philosophy and educational objectives
- Support a code of ethical conduct
- Pursue professional development/continuing education
- Attend faculty meetings, in-service days, conferences and professional growth opportunities
Highschool Diploma
Benefits:
• Competitive Salary
• Benefit package
• Childcare benefits
• No nights or weekend
