Position: Teaching Assistants
Location: Children’s Center for Learning, 95 Lincoln Avenue, New Rochelle, NY
Full Time; Salary: $16.50 per hour; Benefits
To Apply: Email resume and cover letter to Devora Barrios – dbarrios@westcop.org
Responsibilities:
- Demonstrate warmth and be supportive of children.
- Appreciate the strengths of children and help them to develop successful ways of managing.
- Become tuned into the nonverbal interactions of children.
- Maintain a professional manner and respect confidentiality.
- Have knowledge of Head Start Program Performance Standards
- Have knowledge of Westcop’s Child Supervision Protocol and Mandated Reporter status (OCFS).
- Have knowledge of the purpose and use of classroom and outdoor equipment and materials.
- Assist in the development of appropriate curriculum and materials for the classroom as well as for outdoor play.
- Assist in maintaining a positive, safe, and orderly classroom environment and be aware of how to provide flexibility to meet the needs of each child.
- Maintain awareness of job role as it relates to other center staff.
- Work as part of the center team.
- Utilize proper channels of communication in center.
- Have knowledge of center’s educational goals, objectives, and philosophy.
- Provide a positive model for children, including, but not limited to, speech, body contact, and behavior.
- Speak to children in a friendly, positive, and courteous manner to stimulate curiosity and promote language development. Assist children to be comfortable, relaxed, happy, and involved in play and other activities.
- Find opportunities to help children to develop self-confidence.
- Carry out positive classroom disciplinary techniques.
- Develop knowledge of age-level characteristics of preschool children and a respect for individual differences.
- Have knowledge of and assist in carrying out the established daily schedule. Contribute to the ongoing planning of the program and assist in the implementation of those plans.
- Carry out special activities for small (five to eight member) groups of children.
- In the absence of the head teacher, may be responsible for supervising and taking the teacher’s lead of the total classroom.
- Assist the teacher in transferring parents’ goals and expectations into established classroom goals.
- Assist in developing communication between home and center.
- Participate with classroom teacher in parent conferences.
- Participates in leadership in the classroom (leads the classroom once or twice a week).
- Share observations of children and parents with classroom team.
- Participate in maintaining required ongoing records of children. Input children’s observations on TSG.
- Have knowledge of all personnel policies of center, including, but not limited to those related to absence, lateness, sickness, etc.
- Have knowledge of center procedures for handling emergencies, including, but not limited to fire drills, late pickup, accidents, etc.
- Accept supervision from classroom teacher and other designated supervisors.
- Maintain confidentiality of all materials handled in the performance of duties and responsibilities.
- Attend staff meetings, committee meetings, training sessions, and parent meetings, when applicable.
- Maintain confidentiality of students, parents, program, and all materials handled in the performance of duties and responsibilities.