ECE After-School Teacher

• Use a positive discipline and guidance approach to behavior management, encouraging children to develop confidence in personal and social skills.
• Design engaging, interactive, developmentally appropriate, and safe classroom environment.
• Alert to and understand health and safety matters, ensuring compliance with all state licensing requirements.
• Develop, maintain, and help children to understand the daily schedule and routines.
• Provide first aid and complete all required reporting and documentation on accidents and injuries.
• Maintain a clean and sanitary classroom as well as help all staff in maintaining a clean and safe facility (bathrooms, staff lounge, gym, outdoors, etc).

• According to the Yew Chung ECE Approach and based on children’s interests, plan, implement, document, and evaluate developmentally appropriate daily learning opportunities and experiences both indoors and outdoors.
• Co-lead class in the afternoon with the Assistant Teacher.
• Observe the strengths and concerns of individual children to inform the planning of appropriate opportunities for whole child development and learning.
• Prepare and organize appropriate, stimulating, and relevant materials and resources for learning to support children’s interests and to encourage deeper understanding.
• Identify and respond to children’s interests through observing and interacting with students and helping them to formulate and extend their questions and inquiry.
• Assist students in developing independent and self-help skills, providing appropriate modeling and guidance, and following the Yew Chung ECE Approach.

• Support outside vendors with Enrichment Classes in class management and providing individual attention to students as needed.
• Actively participate in enrichment activities to model and guide the children.

• Use technology such as iPads, cameras, and computers to record and document student learning.
• Support the Teaching Team in providing content for bi-weekly Newsletters
• Support the Teaching Team to ensure the classroom environment displays pedagogical documentation of the current learning, including children’s work, photos, charts, and so on.

• Work with Assistant Teacher to keep Co-Teachers aware of any student concerns and/or communication to or from parents/caregivers.
• Support Co-Teachers in gathering assessment data for student reports (Mid-Year and End-of-Year Reports).
• Maintain the confidentiality of staff, parent, child, client, community, and school information included in files, conversations, meetings, correspondence, or any other source.

• Keep abreast of current practices and theories in early childhood education through ongoing professional development.
• Participate in all professional development and in-service opportunities provided by YCIS.
• Participate in and prepare for school events as required; for example, the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival and Chinese New Year Gala.
• Available for occasional weekend and evening events, including Mini Camp.

• English or Mandarin native speaker with a strong set of communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to communicate effectively in English (written & spoken).
• Understanding of and adherence to the Yew Chung educational philosophies and approach to early childhood education, including the curriculum framework and guidance.
• A strong commitment to teamwork and to developing and maintaining a cooperative and collaborative working relationship with a teaching team.
• Good communication, problem-solving, and priority-setting skills as well as maintaining an overall positive and professional attitude /disposition.
• A willingness to understand and work within the curriculum framework and guidelines utilized by YCIS.
• Previous experience working with a diverse group of young children and implementation of an inquiry-based learning approach.
• Proven ability to observe the strengths, interests, and concerns of individual children in order to plan appropriate opportunities for development as well as document children’s learning.
• Ability to create a welcoming and engaging classroom atmosphere in which children feel safe, comfortable, and supported to explore and experience new skills.
• Proven ability to establish a positive and healthy relationship with parents and families.
• A warm and friendly personality; patient and respectful; sensitive to the feelings and needs of others; able to adapt and be flexible.
• On-call sub if/as needed by the program, based on availability.
• Computer skills with proven ability to produce student assessment and learning documentation. Comfortable with using a variety of computer and tablet programs and applications such as Google Suite (docs; slides).

• Experience in a preschool and/or ECE environment.
• At least 12 ECE (Early Childhood Education) units, AA or higher degree in Child Development, Early Childhood Education (ECE) or related field preferred.
• Child Development Permit from the State of California Commission on Teacher Credentialing is preferred.

• Frequently walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, and talk or hear

• Often required to stand and sit; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, bend, squat, or crawl

• Ability to lift and carry up to 25 pounds and in case of emergency a 40-pound child

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus

• This organization requires a successful candidate to provide it with employment eligibility and verification of a legal right to work in the United States in compliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act.
• Must complete all background requirements prior to employment: live scan, acknowledgment of child abuse reporting responsibility, criminal record statement, and receive satisfactory clearance from all licensing and investigative authorities.
• Must pass a health screening and have required immunizations to work in the classroom (MMR, TB test or chest x-ray, TDap, Influenza).
• A valid certificate in CPR and pediatric first aid is preferred.
• A Child Development Permit from the State of California Commission on Teacher Credentialing is preferred.

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