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- Teach kids individually and in groups, adapting teaching methods to meet students' varying needs and interests.
- Teach basic skills such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.
- Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
- Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.
- Read books to entire classes or to small groups.
- Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate those objectives to children.
- Prepare materials, classrooms, and other indoor and outdoor spaces to facilitate creative play, learning and motor-skill activities, and safety.
- Identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems, and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists..
- Provide disabled students with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities such as restrooms.
- Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development such as games, arts and crafts, music, and storytelling.
- Prepare children for later grades by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.
- Confer with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.
- Prepare and implement remedial programs for students requiring extra help.
- Collaborate with other teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of kindergarten programs.
- Maintain accurate and complete student records, and prepare reports on children and activities, as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
- Assimilate arriving children to the school environment by greeting them, helping them remove outerwear, and selecting activities of interest to them.
- Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
- Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.
- Organize and label materials and display children's work in a manner appropriate for their sizes and perceptual skills.
- Prepare, administer, and grade tests and assignments to evaluate children's progress.
- Supervise, evaluate, and plan assignments for teacher assistants and volunteers.
- Guide and counsel students with adjustment or academic problems, or special academic interests.
- Prepare objectives and outlines for courses of study, following curriculum guidelines or requirements of states and schools.
- Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.
Job Requirements
- Bachelors' degree.
- Teaching experience at the Kindergarten level.
- Innovative teaching skills.
- The ability to create a safe, engaging, interactive learning environment.
- The ability to craft age-appropriate and engaging lesson plans.
- The ability to identify individual student needs and achieve differentiated learning within the classroom.
- Good communication skills.
- The ability to work collaboratively with other teachers.
- Females only.