About This Role
Daycare Teachers care for children, ensuring their safety and engagement through various activities while maintaining a clean and organized environment. This role suits an energetic and dependable individual who can actively engage with children and communicate effectively with parents.
Responsibilities
- Monitor all children under care while parents are at work
- Ensure that children are safe and well-behaved
- Complete craft projects and other creative activities with children
- Provide snacks and meals for children
- Make sure the daycare center is clean and organized
- Provide updates to parents on children’s behavior and progress
- Comfort children who are homesick or upset
- Facilitate activities that help children learn the alphabet and basic reading skills
- Feed, change, and carry infants at the daycare center
Requirements
- Six months of supervised programmatic experience as an assistant teacher; or
- Three months of programmatic experience and at least one of the following education backgrounds:
- A one-year early childhood certificate from a college or university that consists of at least 30 semester hours
- A child development credential by an organization listed in § 22.1-289.048 of the Code of Virginia
- A teaching diploma from an internationally or nationally recognized Montessori organization
- Demonstrate patience and compassion
- Exhibit traits of a responsible and attentive person
- Demonstrate strong organizational skills
- Possess strong listening skills
- Demonstrate ability to communicate effectively with young children
- Exhibit ability to think creatively and innovatively when designing activities
- Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills
- Possess physical and mental stamina required to oversee young children daily
Benefits