Summary

Child Care Associates (CCA), the largest child development nonprofit organization in North Texas, has served nearly 600,000 vulnerable young children and their families since 1968. Regional support for young children has increased over the past 5 years, creating an opportunity to propel CCAs services and the early learning system to new levels of impact and quality. Child Care Associates is a nonprofit of scale in the DFW region poised to help build a strong early childhood system, to partner with families and to build an early education infrastructure to help achieve outcomes at scale. CCA is seeking qualified certified pre-k teachers to fill vacancies throughout Tarrant County.

Duties

• Plan and implement daily learning experiences that advance the intellectual and physical growth and development of children to improve school readiness;
• Provide a high quality dual language early learning experience for children ages three to five, while establishing developmentally appropriate classroom environment favorable to the development and personal growth of children;
• Create group and individual learning experiences that align with the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework and support Pre-K standards, that support the language and literacy, approaches to learning, perceptual, motor and physical, social and emotional and cognitive development of children;
• Create a well-organized classroom that is developmentally appropriate and inviting for pre-school age children;
• Collaborate with CCA and ISD/Charter staff to co-prepare and co-plan weekly including posting weekly lesson and small group plans;
• Constantly observe children and maintain child assessment records and/or grade reports as required by CCA and ISD/Charter partner;
• Establish and maintain positive ongoing communication with each child and their family through home visits and parent conferences as required;
• Participate in annual CLASS assessments to measure the quality of adult-child interaction to support ongoing improvement;
• Demonstrate positive and appropriate social interactions and communication including modeling conversation, manners, clean-up activities and listening skills;
• Create regular classroom activities that support the social and emotional development of children;
• Create and maintain a safe, healthy and orderly learning environments both indoors and outdoors;
• Create and maintain Individual Development Plans (IDP's) and resource materials for children that promote individual differences and cultural background;
• Utilize a predetermined curriculum and incorporate plans and approaches that address IDPs;
• Develop activities and use technology to promote creative expression;
• Implement indoor & outdoor activities that encourage and promote physical development;
• Demonstrate responsive care, effective teaching practices, including the implementation of positive strategies to support children's well-being, and prevent and address challenging behaviors;
• Supervise and guide children during mealtime, hand washing, toileting, rest periods, and play activities;
• Direct instructional assistants, volunteers and/or student workers to promote effective classroom management and addressing the needs of individual students;
• Conduct all responsibilities as required by Child Care Licensing Minimum standards, Head Start Performance Standards, ISD/Charter collaboration and CCA policy requirements; if serving on an elementary campus, conduct responsibilities, attires and behaviors that support each campus and collaboration requirements;
• Actively participate in CCA & ISD/Charter staff development activities, in-service training and workshops to meet training requirements and to achieve mastery of core competencies, and
• Other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education or closely related field;
Valid Texas EC - 6th Teaching Certification (Teacher II)
Previous classroom experience teaching preschool-age children;
Demonstrated knowledge of human behavior and have expressive and receptive language abilities;
Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication skills & be able to interact professionally with adults.
Demonstrated computer proficiency required, and
Ability to pass a pre-employment and/or periodic physical examination, TB skin test, and a complete background check every 24 months.

Nice To Haves

• Bilingual abilities a plus.
  

Benefits

BENEFITS PACKAGE INCLUDES:

Child Care Associates offers a competitive benefits package that is provided to all fulltime employees that include health, dental and life insurance coverage. Additional voluntary benefits are offered to all fulltime employees in addition to the core benefits package.

After completing one (1) year of service, the company contributes 4% of the employee's earnings to the 403(b) retirement plan. If the employee also elects to make a contribution to the plan, Child Care Associates will match half (50%) of the employee's contribution up to 4% of base salary.

Child Care Associates provides other benefits outlined in the Staff Handbook, such as paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

About Us

Child Care Associates reaches more than 14,000 children across Tarrant County. We're one of the largest child development organizations in North Texas.

WE SERVE THE WHOLE CHILD AND FAMILY by providing academic and social/emotional growth through quality early education and child care programs. Our early education programs provide much more than instruction - we ensure that each child has a family doctor, a dentist, and is up-to-date on all immunizations and screenings. We ease the burden on low-income families by offering no-cost CCA campuses or offsetting the high cost of child care. As a result, parents are able to work or finish school while learning important parenting and life skills.