Salary
$25 – $29/Hr
Job Type
Full Time
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About This Role
Based in Lihue, this support staff member opening at Haloalaunuiakea Early Learning Center pays $25 – $29/Hr and requires the appropriate background.
Preschool teachers are responsible for creating a nurturing environment that fosters social, emotional, physical, and cognitive growth in young children.
We are always accepting applications for this role.
What You'll Do
- Create engaging learning activities that encourage exploration, creativity, and social interaction among children.
- Develop and implement lesson plans that cater to diverse learning styles and abilities.
- Establish a safe and organized classroom environment that promotes independence, self-confidence, and self-expression.
- Build positive relationships with children, parents, and colleagues to ensure a collaborative and supportive learning community.
- Conduct regular observations and assessments to monitor children's progress and identify areas for support or enrichment.
- Communicate effectively with parents and guardians to share progress updates, address concerns, and involve them in their child's education.
- Participate in ongoing professional development to stay current with best practices, research, and curriculum requirements.
- Collaborate with colleagues to plan and implement curriculum, develop assessments, and share expertise.
- Ensure the classroom is equipped with necessary materials, equipment, and resources to support learning and play.
- Manage classroom routines, transitions, and activities to promote a smooth and efficient learning environment.
- Plan and implement activities that promote physical activity, health, and well-being.
- Develop and maintain accurate and complete records of children's progress, including progress reports and assessment data.
- Prepare and present reports to administrators, parents, and guardians as required.
- Supervise and support teacher assistants, volunteers, and other support staff to ensure effective team collaboration.
- Take on additional responsibilities as needed, such as planning events, leading parent-teacher organizations, or participating in district committees.
Requirements
- Administer tests to help determine children's developmental levels, needs, and potential.
- Apply multiple teaching methods.
- Assist students with special educational needs.
- Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.
- Arrange childcare or educational settings to ensure physical safety of children.
- Arrange indoor and outdoor space to facilitate creative play, motor-skill activities, and safety.
- Assimilate arriving children to the school environment by greeting them, helping them remove outerwear, and selecting activities of interest to them.
- Attend staff meetings and serve on committees as required.
- Assist students with special educational needs.
- Administer tests to assess educational needs or progress.
- Collaborate with other teaching professionals to develop educational programs.
- Develop strategies or programs for students with special needs.
- Develop instructional objectives.
- Display student work.
- Distribute instructional or library materials.
- Discuss problems or issues with supervisors.
- Discuss student progress with parents or guardians.
- Evaluate student work.
- Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students.
- Enforce rules or policies governing student behavior.
- Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order.
- Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to children.
- Identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists.
- Keep the classroom organized and tidy, including the storage of materials and equipment.
- Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.
- Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and needs, determine their priorities for their children, and suggest ways that they can promote learning and development.
- Monitor student behavior, social development, or health.
- Monitor student performance.
- Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, and field trips.
- Organize and label materials and display students' work in a manner appropriate for their ages and perceptual skills.
- Perform administrative duties, such as hall and cafeteria monitoring and bus loading and unloading.
- Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
- Plan and implement remedial programs for students requiring extra help.
- Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guests, or other experiential activities and guide students in learning from those activities.
- Plan educational activities.
- Plan experiential learning activities.
- Plan and conduct field trips, visits by guests, or other experiential activities and guide students in learning from those activities.
- Prepare and implement remedial programs for students requiring extra help.
- Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
- Prepare and present reports to administrators, parents, and guardians as required.
- Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration.
- Read books to entire classes or to small groups.
- Read to students.
- Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.
- Set up classroom materials or equipment.
- Supervise, evaluate, and plan assignments for teacher assistants and volunteers.
- Supervise school or student activities.
- Supervise and support teacher assistants, volunteers, and other support staff to ensure effective team collaboration.
- Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.
- Teach life skills.
- Teach proper eating habits and personal hygiene.
- Provide disabled students with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.
- Provide for basic needs of children.
- Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.
Nice to Have
- Email software
- Photocopying equipment
- Sand tables
- Water tables
- Play structures
- Educational board games
- Toy block sets
- Children's educational software
- Compact digital cameras
- Desktop computers
- Educational puzzles
- Pegboards
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Word
- Compact disk CD players
- Data entry software
- Emergency first aid kits
- Personal computers
- Microsoft Excel
- Educational toys
Common Questions
What is the education required for this position?
At least an associate degree is required
What does this position pay?
This Preschool Teacher role pays $25 to $29/Hr.
Is this full-time or part-time?
This job is Full Time.
Where is Haloalaunuiakea Early Learning Center located?
Haloalaunuiakea Early Learning Center is located at 3-3385 Kuhio Highway, Lihue, HI
$25 – $29/Hr
Haloalaunuiakea Early Learning Center · Lihue, HI
Job type
Full Time
Posted
10 days ago
Reference #
143,686