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6:15am - 6:00pm

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION   To successfully provide children with a nurturing, safe and healthy environment while supporting the Early Childhood Educator.   ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Knowledgeable in the Developmental Milestones for your classroom.
• Communicate with all parents on the development of their child.
• Follow weekly lesson plans, including: sensory, stories and music, art, science, math, small and large motor stimulating learning in developmental areas, physical, social, emotional and intellectual.
• Assist in ensuring the best interests of all the children are being met.

• Follows the Bay City Public Schools Early Childhood Centers Employee Handbook.

   

• Follows all Licensing Rules for Child Care Centers through the State of Michigan Department of Human Services.

• Knowledgeable in the Bay City Public Schools Early Childhood Centers Program Guide and Health Policies and Procedures.

   

• Have current Adult and Pediatric CPR/AED and First Aid certification.

• Follow the proper OSHA procedures for blood-borne pathogens.
• Participate in mandatory continuing education staff meetings so to improve and expand on their knowledge.
• Staff have knowledge of all emergency procedures and practice them routinely.
• Arrive to work on time, organized, prepared and ready to meet the children's needs.
• Staff limit their conversations to child friendly, respectful conversations
• Staff maintains professional attitudes in their demeanor and in their personal relationships while on the job.
• Staff contributes to joint responsibilities.

• Staff is patient with children, interacting in a positive manner at the children's level while engaging in play.

   

• Staff greets parents, children, visitors and other staff in a friendly and pleasant manner. Note any pertinent information or instructions.

• Staff keeps an open communication with the parents that builds mutual understanding and greater consistency for children.
• Staff shares ideas and accepts suggestion to help contribute to the total program.
• Staff consistently respond to children's needs for food or comfort, this enabling the children to develop trust.
• Children are praised for their accomplishments and helped to feel increasingly competent.
• Staff respect children's curiosity about each other. At the same time, adults help to ensure that children treat each other gently.

• Staff send daily notes home to inform the parents of the child's day in the infant, wobbler and Toddler classrooms.

   

• Staff model language through communication, singing and reading books.

• Staff encourage brain development through touch, sound, movement, sensory exploration, and visual experiences.
• Staff view each child as a unique person with an individual pattern and timing of growth and development.
• Have an overall awareness of what all children in the classroom are doing at any given time
• Ability to follow an established plan for group instruction.
• Assist with keeping the room clean and orderly
• Staff record feedings, diaper changes, medicine, and sleep patterns on children under one (1) year of age on the child's weekly sheets.

• Toys that are mouthed are put in the dirty toy bin when a child is finished playing with it.

   

• Staff place infants in their cribs on their back to sleep. Cribs are the only approved sleeping equipment.

• After meals, all high chairs/chairs are washed with the three step cleaning process. Floors are to be swept after each meal. High chairs are taken apart minimally on a weekly basis.

• Staff enjoy working with children.

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