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.