Pre-K Teacher
Website Hope House
Job Title: Pre-K Teacher
Department: Early Childhood Services
Reports To: Director of Early Childhood Services
Last Updated: January 2024
Job Summary:
We seek a vibrant teacher to educate, care for, and inspire the young minds at our preschool. Using various teaching methods, including artistic expression, educational play, and storytelling, you will teach children to identify shapes, colors, numbers, and letters while providing them with foundational life skills and preparing them for the next stage of formal education.
To be successful as a teacher, you should have the patience, compassion, and energy to successfully guide a class of young children, each of whom will have diverse needs, abilities, aptitudes, and emotions. The best candidate will also have excellent administrative and organizational skills to plan curriculums and create reports on each child’s progress.
Requirements:
· 18 years or older
· Must pass background check
Principle Responsibilities:
· Facilitate learning in classroom via appropriate age-level curriculum.
· Create and implement lesson plans, using developmentally appropriate practices.
· Follow a consistent, daily schedule for the classroom.
· Control the environment in the classroom to facilitate positive social skills and learning.
· Communicate with Administration about classroom and/or teacher needs.
· Maintain a clean, safe, and healthy classroom environment.
· Communicate immediate classroom needs with classroom floaters.
· Follow all Hope House rules of classroom etiquette.
· Encourage social, emotional, intellectual, and physical growth.
· Follow Hope House’s Behavior Plan prescribed for the child if one is needed.
· Maintain and update learning centers.
· Initiate and encourage parent/ teacher interaction.
· Provide all bathroom, meal service and other needs of the children appropriately and timely.
· Attend required training sessions.
· Attendance appropriate for position at Hope House.
· Fulfills all other responsibilities necessary for the operation of Hope House.
Education and Experience:
· High school diploma or associate degree (required).
· Bachelor’s degree required in Early Childhood or Elementary Education.
· Previous experience in preschool/early childhood.
· CDA (Child Development Associate) is preferred.
Compensation
Salary starts at $50,000. Applicants must have a bachelor’s degree with previous experience in an early childhood setting or preschool classroom.
Interested applicants should submit their resumes to Monica Glover, Director of HR at mglover@hopehousememphis.org
