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City Colleges of Chicago · 2 months ago

Assistant Teacher - Child Development Center (2nd)

Chicago, IL

Full-time

Onsite

Entry Level

$47K/yr - $52K/yr

2+ years exp

City Colleges of Chicago is seeking a Full-Time Assistant Teacher for its Child Development Center. The role involves providing instructional and non-instructional support in a classroom setting, implementing a developmentally appropriate curriculum, and ensuring a safe and healthy environment for children.

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Responsibilities

Provides a safe, healthy environment for children, with a focus on classroom health, hygiene, nutrition, and safety. This includes maintaining a clean and orderly environment for the children; ensuring children attend to personal hygiene/hand washing; teaching children about health and nutrition; and reporting accidents, injuries, and illnesses to parents and supervisors

Assists the teacher in the development and implementation of an environment and curriculum that provides for a variety of developmentally appropriate activities to promote children’s development in the areas of language and literacy, cognition, social-emotional well-being, and physical health. This should be done with consideration of the Center’s goals, educational philosophy, and general curriculum plans

Assists in the maintenance of required paperwork, logs and records, as well as documentation to assess individual children and the class as a whole

Ensures children’s safety through constant supervision, storage of dangerous materials, arrangement and maintenance of classroom and equipment

Works with other teaching staff to provide a nurturing, stimulating, non-punitive, and culturally sensitive environment that encourages language, self-expression, exploration, creativity, imaginative play, thinking skills, and the development of positive relationships

Makes certain that parents are greeted warmly and receive adequate information about their child’s experience at the center through daily contact, scheduled conferences, and written documentation as required

Participates in any quality enhancement initiatives that the center may undertake

Participates in staff meetings, planning, and professional development and shares information gained from coursework or attendance at professional development workshops and conferences

Adheres to requirements put forth by funding, licensing, and accreditation agencies

Performs other duties as required and maintains classroom atmosphere and requirement in the absence of the regular teacher

Qualification

Child DevelopmentEarly Childhood EducationIllinois Gateways credentialCulturally diverse environmentCommunication skillsProfessional developmentSupportive attitudeComputer skillsFlexibility

Required

Associate's degree from an accredited college or university in Child Development, Early Childhood Education or a related field, plus two (2) years of experience with preschool children, or an equivalent combination of education and experience is required

Candidate must be registered with Illinois Gateways to Opportunity and actively pursuing their Level 4 credential in Infant/Toddler (IT) or Early Childhood Education (ECE). Level 4 credential must be attained by 2028

Must have and maintain a warm, supportive attitude towards children

Must be flexible in receiving assignments and adapting to changes in the program

Must be willing to accept supervision and continue professional development in the field in order to improve work performance

Ability to communicate verbally and in writing with children, parents, and other staff members, as well as for documenting children's growth and learning

Should be able to assist in the creation and implementation of developmentally appropriate lessons, interact positively with children and other staff, and understand and attend to the physical, social, cognitive, health and safety, and emotional needs of the children

Must be able to work well within a culturally diverse environment with the ability to handle situations with tact and diplomacy

Ability to operate computers and use applicable software required