Teacher Assistant

Job Overview

This position is responsible for providing children a safe and developmentally appropriate environment that promotes the child’s cognitive, social/emotional, health and physical development through effective delivery of instruction/activities as directed by the Teacher, and in accordance with Head Start performance Standards and Federal, State, and Local regulations. The Teacher Assistant will be assigned to a specific Head Start classroom.

Job Responsibilities

• Promotes and models the organization’s Core Values.
• Always ensures the safety and well-being of children while under AVANCE’s care.
• Follows program confidentiality policies concerning information about parents, children, and other staff members.
• Provides individually appropriate activities in the classroom and knows each child’s capabilities and modes of learning.
• Promotes feelings of security and trust in the children by being warm, supportive, and comforting, and by establishing strong and caring relationships with them.
• Maintains an open, friendly, and cooperative relationship with each child and parent, encourages their involvement in the program and promotes parent-child bonding and nurturing parent-child relationships.
• Plan and prepare healthy and safe activities and supplies needed according to lesson plans and as directed by the Teacher.
• Assures that parents sign-in their children on the daily sign-in logs in each classroom and make sure that parents sign-in on the right day and time in and out are documented by parent.
• Assures that parents label all children’s belongings and make sure that all belongings are returned at the end of the program year.
• Maintains proper hygiene in children and all equipment and space used for care of children.
• Report suspected neglect, abuse, medical conditions/illnesses immediately to the Teacher and Education Coordinator.
• Maintains assigned child’s Portfolio and other documentation as specified by the Teacher and Education Coordinator.
• Attends meetings and training sessions as specified by the Coordinator of Education Services.
• Works cooperatively and effectively as a team member.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Senior Coordinator of Education Services, the Coordinator of Education Services or Senior Management.
• Performs other duties as assigned.