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Day School Teacher (Full-Time) Houston

Day School Teacher (Full-Time)

Full Time • Houston

Teachers provide a safe and caring environment for children to learn. The best teachers desire to impact students and operate as supportive members of their teaching team and the staff as a whole. We model kindness, generosity, responsibility, and healthy boundaries in everything we do.

General Responsibilities:

  • Maintain prompt hours, notify Director and school in the event of illness.
  • Clock in and out at your designated time.
  • Do not go over your hours unless authorized by a Director.
  • Maintain a neat and clean appearance in the Grace uniform.
  • Work with all other staff members in a cooperative manner.
  • Attend staff meetings; report problems of child or room management to the Director promptly.
  • Attend in-service trainings for infants and toddlers when possible.
  • Keep up to date on developments in infant and toddler early childhood education.
  • Follow personnel policies of Grace Weekday School/UMC.
  • Be a good role model for your teaching team.
  • Ensure the facility is a safe and fun place for children to learn.
Classroom Responsibilities:

  • Lesson plan for the classroom weekly using Grace Weekday School curriculum. Turn in lesson plans for each week by noon on Friday before each week for approval by Director. Include all seasonal activities in addition to the curriculum.
  • Work with the teaching team to have all needed materials/items needed to implement and execute the lesson plans by Friday before the week to be implemented.
  • Provide a minimum of 5 reading experiences each day. Include titles on lesson plans.
  • Provide appropriate early childhood experiences in all classroom centers.
  • Engage and supervise activities planned to meet the health, emotional, social, intellectual, cognitive, and physical development of children.
  • Prepare your room to meet your children's needs.
  • Offer daily opportunities to children to make decisions.
  • Set up learning centers and maintain them with age-appropriate materials.
  • Do child assessments on a regular basis and have them recorded in an organized manner for use in parent conferences and promotions. Keep on the child's file.
  • Schedule and conduct 2 parent conferences annually. Record the outcome of these conferences and keep on the child's file.
  • Maintain a clean and sterile environment. Shelves must be bleached daily, tables bleached after each use, mouthed toys placed in a container for dirty toys to be sanitized in the four-step process. (wash with soap and water, clear water rinse, sanitize with bleach water, and air dry)
  • Environment should be maintained in an inviting and stimulating manner.
  • Maintain your bulletin boards accordingly.
  • Prepare and maintain a preschool portfolio for each student.
  • Ensure that you maintain and enforce minimum standards and best practices at all times for yourself and the teaching team.
Duties:

  • Supervise children at all times. Never leave children unattended.
  • Consider each child in relationship with their cultural and social economic backgrounds. All children will be treated equally, with respect and empathy.
  • Build self-esteem in each child. Appropriate language and behaviors will be related to the growth and development of each individual child.
  • Speak to children at eye level.
  • Non-punitive and guidance methods will be used when redirecting a child. This will be done in a positive manner.
  • Keep track of all required logs, including daily reports, crib logs, or diaper changes when appropriate.
  • Do classroom daily reports for incidents that happen in the class daily.
  • Check and record attendance daily.
  • Check diapers constantly. Change if the child is soiled.
  • Fill in diaper logs as you change diapers following proper diaper-changing procedures.
  • Sanitize the diaper changing table after each diaper change.
  • Take out soiled diapers as often as needed to keep the air fresh.
  • Label all children's belongings with their first name and last initial. This includes diapers, wipes, creams, clothes, etc.
  • Keep supplies out of reach of children.
  • Do health and hygiene checks daily. Notify parents if needed.
  • Assist all children as needed.
  • Talk and play with children often.
  • Be a friend as well as a teacher.
  • Send home reminders for needing diapering supplies.
  • Maintain proper hand washing procedures for self and children.
  • Keep children clean; clothes, faces, and hands. Never send home children dirty.
  • Take toddlers outside daily.
Professional Duties:

  • Maintain communication. Lesson Plans need to be posted no later than Monday of each week.
  • Ensure that parents are updated on class activities as often as possible, but no less than 3 times weekly, not counting the lesson plans.
  • Ensure that daily communication is maintained with parents on their child's day.
  • Document all important information that occurs in the class.
  • Document incident reports within 24 hours of the incident. Make sure the report is filled out completely before giving to the director for signing. Give to parent for signature after the director signs off.
  • Treat all children, parents, and all others on the Grace campus with courtesy and respect.
  • Show good judgment and self-control in working with children.
  • Report any suspected delays to the director as soon as possible.
  • Report any signs of abuse or neglect to the director and Child Protective Services.
  • Encourage parent involvement in the program.
  • Attend school functions.
  • Do not discuss daycare information with other individuals outside of the center.
  • Follow all procedures, regulations, and criteria as set forth by the Department of Human Services in minimum standards.
  • And all other duties as required by Grace Weekday School/UMC.
Benefits:
  • Health Insurance
  • Paid Time off/Paid Sick
  • 401k
  • Employee discount
  • Professional development assistance
Schedule:
  • 8-hour shift
  • Monday to Friday
  • No nights
  • No weekends

License/Certification:
  • CPR Certification (Preferred)
Compensation: $15.00 - $16.00 per hour

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.





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Employee Benefits

Grace in the Heights strives to support our employees physical, mental, and spiritual health.  We offer highly competitive benefits for full-time employees in both the ministry and day school departments.
Health Insurance
Insurance is offered through Blue Cross Blue Sheild. Employees are eligible for 100% coverage after 2 years.
Paid time off
At least 40 hours of PTO each year. Vacation accrues based on work hours.
Paid Sick Days
401K
Save for your future straight from your paycheck.
Discounted Weekday School Tuition
Other
Parental Leave, Medical Leave, and Merit Raises offered based on tenure and performance.