Center Support Staff (Part-time)
Mary Crane Center
- Chicago, IL
- Permanent
- Part-time
The Center support staff also functions to assist in other areas of the center by supporting administrative-related duties.Duties & ResponsibilitiesInteract With Children
- Utilize appropriate language, interactions, and positive discipline.
- Model positive behavior.
- Under the guidance of Lead Teacher assist with instructing and supervising children in classroom activities.
- Implement age-appropriate activities that support the Head Start standards, the NAEYC standards, and the Creative Curriculum.
- Implement and model family-style eating during meal times.
- Continuously monitor children to ensure safety at all times and report child abuse and neglect.
- Assess children on a regular basis.
- Take pictures and maintain anecdotal notes, written observations, and other approved forms of documentation for each child when instructed to do so by the Lead Teacher.
- Utilize research library, research, plan, and develop age-appropriate activities for lesson plans in conjunction with the Lead Teacher and Assistant Teacher.
- Assist the Lead Teacher and Assistant Teacher in preparing activities that support lesson plans.
- Maintain open communication with parents by scheduling and conducting parent/teacher conferences and home visits.
- As a parent advocate, help resolve issues or concerns that are raised.
- Inform parents about daily classroom routines, expectations, policies, field trips, and volunteer opportunities.
- Communicate with parents about incidents that have been observed and/or recorded on-site.
- Obtain all required classroom parental signatures, such as on all incident reports and field trip permission slips.
- Assist in designing and completing documentation panels for the classrooms and hallways.
- Complete all necessary paperwork for classroom and office activities, including meal count sheets, attendance, screenings, parent/teacher conferences, and home visits in a timely manner.
- Maintain up-to-date and accurate education folders.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date for classrooms and office.
- Maintain classroom and office supply lists and inventory.
- Complete all necessary
- Work closely with Site Director, classroom teaching team, administrative team and other content area specialists.
- Actively participate in meetings, which may include management, teaching team, center, committee, parent, parent policy, family reviews, city/state, agency, and board meetings.
- Participate in team meetings. Communicate and share ideas and concerns with the Lead Teacher, Assistant Teacher, Site Director, Education Coordinator, and other management and office team members.
- As staff, parent, and child advocate participate in agency committee meetings i.e. health advisory, advocacy, etc.
- Participate in staff In-Services.
- Engage in continuing education and professional development activities such as training, workshops, and classes to meet required qualifications.
- Assist in completing required documentation.
- Help to maintain a clean and organized learning environment.
- Sanitize all surfaces, equipment, and classroom toys daily and weekly.
- Maintain a quality classroom and office arrangement in compliance with curriculum standards.
- Assist with routinely checking office classroom equipment and materials to ensure they are in good repair.
- High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED).
- A minimum of 6 credit hours in Child Development from an accredited college or university working toward earning 15 credit hours in Child development.
- Experience with children preferred
- Must be at least 18 years of age.
- Cooperates successfully as a member of a team.
- Communicates effectively with others, including giving and receiving feedback on the quality of services.
- Meet any specific content area requirements.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.
- Effective oral and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated capability to interface and maintain effective relationships with staff, consultants, and regulatory/funding representatives in a team-oriented environment.
- Capacity to assume responsibility for own professional development.
- Detail-oriented, logical, and methodological approach to problem-solving.
- Flexible, with the ability to work in a highly demanding, stressful environment.
- Proficiency using word-processing systems.
- Ability to read and speak English proficiently.
- Bilingual-Spanish preferred.
- The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, sit; use hands to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.
- Specific vision requirements include the ability to see at close range.
- Fine hand manipulation (keyboarding).
- Transportation time spent commuting between sites and attending meetings, training, in-services, and home visits.
- The employee may be required to work at multiple agency locations if necessary.
- Internal office space and classroom.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to high.