Day School Teacher (Full-Time)
Grace in the Heights
Full-time
On-site
Houston, Texas, United States
$15 - $16 USD hourly
Teachers provide a safe and caring environment for children to learn. The best teachers desire to impact students and operate as supportive members of their teaching team and the staff as a whole. We model kindness, generosity, responsibility, and healthy boundaries in everything we do.
General Responsibilities:
- Maintain prompt hours, notify Director and school in the event of illness.
- Maintain a neat and clean appearance in the Grace uniform.
- Work with all other staff members in a cooperative manner.
- Attend in-service trainings for infants and toddlers when possible.
- Keep up to date on developments in infant and toddler early childhood education.
- Follow personnel policies of Grace Weekday School/UMC.
- Be a good role model for your teaching team.
- Ensure the facility is a safe and fun place for children to learn.
Classroom Responsibilities:
- Show good judgment and self-control in working with children.
- Following lesson plan and implementing activities according to schedule/ lesson directives.
- Completing daily, weekly, or monthly task in a timely manner or as directed by the Director
- Provide appropriate early childhood experiences in all classroom centers.
- Engage and supervise activities planned to meet the health, emotional, social, intellectual, cognitive, and physical development of children.
- Prepare your room to meet your children's needs.
- Set up learning centers and maintain them with age-appropriate materials.
- Do child assessments on a regular basis.
- Maintain a clean and sterile environment.
- Fostering an loving and inviting environment for Families.
- Maintain your bulletin boards accordingly.
- Prepare and maintain a preschool portfolio for each student.
- Ensure that you maintain and enforce minimum standards and best practices at all times for yourself and the teaching team
Benefits:
- Health Insurance
- Paid Time off/Paid Sick
- 401k
- Employee discount
- Professional development assistance
Schedule:
- 8-hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- No nights
- No weekends
License/Certification:
- CPR Certification (Preferred)
Compensation: $15.00 - $16.00 per hour
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex,
national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other
characteristic protected by law.
Grace in the Heights strives to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world. We have been a Methodist witness to the Heights neighborhoods for over a hundred years. Family by Choice, we invite people into intimate, supportive, cross-generational relationships. Neighbors by Call, a central part of our faith is attention to the physical and spiritual needs of those around us. We build partnerships with other individuals and organizations to strengthen the whole of our community. Our Legacy for the Future means we offer the best wisdom and traditions of the past in innovative ways to meet future challenges.