Job Description:
  NOTE:  This position is for the 2024-2025 school year. The salary will be based on the 2024-2025 salary schedule which is not yet approved by the Board of Education. The salary listed is based on the current year's salary schedule.  

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

1. Bachelor’s Degree in Early Education OR Bachelor’s Degree in a related area with 30 hours in ECE/Education Coursework OR Missouri Teaching Certificate in Early Childhood Education
2. Must lift, carry, and hold children up to 50 pounds
3. Ability to stoop, crawl, kneel and bend in order to speak to children at the child’s eye level, to play with children and to pick up materials and equipment from the floor.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

1. Two or more years of experience in teaching children in the early education field.

  REPORTS TO:  Principal of High Grove Early Childhood Center
 
JOB GOAL:   To effectively supervise, plan, coordinate, and direct instruction in the preschool classroom.
 
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:   7 hrs/day; 188 days/school term plus 5 day extended contract
 
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Provide a nurturing and appropriate learning environment for children in the early education program
2. Maintain orderly physical environment conducive to optimal growth and development of children
3. Responsible for providing instructional direction using approved curriculum, lesson planning, documentation, and goal setting for children in the classroom.
4. Acquire a thorough knowledge of Head Start Performance Standards, integrating all areas into the education program
5. Coordinate lesson plans and provide developmentally appropriate experiences that encourage diversity and recognize individual differences, regardless of special abilities, talents, ethnic heritage, culture, or language
6. Develop and maintain positive working relationships with support staff and key building personnel
7. Maintain visual and auditory awareness of children at all times to ensure their safety in the classroom and on the playground
8. Know and use appropriate, positive guidance and discipline techniques
9. Organize and implement authentic on-going student assessment, to include anecdotal notes, running records, checklists, portfolio items, etc.
10. Make a minimum of two home visits and two parent conferences per year and complete required reports on home visits and conferences
11. Follow District and Federal Head Start procedures to safeguard the health and safety of children in the program
12. Participate in making and following a professional development plan to be updated annually
13. Follow District policies and procedures
14. Maintain client confidentiality according to established policy
15. Attend all required meetings, including designated evening meetings
16. Submit physical examination to include tuberculin screening as required
17. Maintain current Food Handler’s permit
18. Perform other related duties as assigned

MIN & MAX STARTING SALARY:  $41,543.00 - $73,658.00