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Assist Lead Teacher in planning and implementing learning experiences that advance the development of the whole child. Establish and maintain a safe, healthy learning environment to advance the development of the whole child in partnership with families. Comply with all Colorado Department of Human Services licensing requirements and the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Accreditation Standards. Implement a balance of group and individualized experiences to promote the development of school readiness skills.

RESPONSIBLE TO: Center Director

Required Competencies:

Occupational Competencies

Education: Meet Colorado Minimum Rules and Regulations for Early Childhood Teacher to include Child Development Associate, Associate of Arts Degree or a bachelor's degree in Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, or a related field. Additional coursework may be required based on classroom assignment. Experience: Know, articulate, and apply concepts, principles, theory, and practices of Early Childhood Development. Ability to generalize in all situations to support positive outcomes. Instructing: Plan and implement learning experiences that advance the intellectual and physical development of children, including improving the readiness of children for school by developing their literacy and phonemic, print, and numeric awareness, their understanding and use of language, their understanding and use of increasingly complex and varied vocabulary, their appreciation of books, and their problem-solving abilities. Communicating: Willingness to collaborate and share with co-workers and respect their opinions and contributions. Engage in routine conversations with appropriate staff (within all departments and community) to meet the needs of the classroom, children, families, and host schools. Family Engagement: Support the development of positive relationships between children and their families, while maintaining professional boundaries. Sanitation: Ensure that the classroom environment (including outdoors) is clean, safe and appropriate, in accordance with CDHS Licensing, Health and Safety requirements, USDA food and sanitization requirements, the NAEYC Cleaning and Sanitation Table, and Early Connections' policies and pr Foundational Competencies

Cultural competency: Demonstrate acceptance of all children and their families including those with special needs, behavioral challenges, diversity of culture, race, ethnicity, and parental choices. Service Orientation: Sincere interest in working with children and families and knowledgeable regarding children's development and growth. Social Perceptiveness: Engage in positive interactions with children, teachers, and families. Maintain interaction with children that is warm, sensitive, honest, calm, respectful, and appropriate. Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation for ethnic and economic backgrounds of families Professionalism: Ability to be prepared, punctual and engaged in meetings and work duties, which include staff meetings and events. Willingness to adhere to program policies and procedures and accept related duties, as request Accountability: Willingness to accept responsibility for classroom and children in the Lead Teacher's absence. Assist Lead Teacher with duties as delegated and accept supervision. Confidentiality: Use discretion and maintain confidentiality with matters of children, families, staff and program. Critical Thinking: Demonstrate ability to use reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. Judgment and Decision-Making: Demonstrate ability to make sound judgments. Versatility: Possess a sense of humor, flexibility, and adaptability. Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively. Reading: Reading moderately difficult books, manuals, handbooks, emails, policie , procedures, reports, calendars, letters, schedules, and other materials in the English language. Writing: Writing in the English language using simple, compound, and complex sentences with proper formation, punctuation, syntax, spelling and grammar using all parts of speech. Mathematical: Add, subtract, multiply, and divide all units of measure. Perform arithmetic operations involving all American monetary units. Technology: Using computer hardware and software to complete job tasks including key-boarding, word processing, email, spreadsheets, database, data entry, file management & Windows Explorer.

This position requires moving and lifting heavy objects, with or without a reasonable accommodation, to perform the essential functions of the job.

Here is a list of some of the critical tasks that must be accomplished within this position:

Sitting, standing, moving, lifting, carrying, reaching grasping, bending, stooping, crouching, pushing and/or pulling. Exerting 20 to 40 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects including the human body. Definitions:

Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time Using abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without fatiguing. Making fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists. Quickly and/or repeatedly bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching out with the body, arms, and/or legs. Coordinating movement of the arms, legs, and torso together in activities