Job Description

Position Title: Early Head Start Center Based Lead Teacher

Location: Early Head Start Center (housed on James Monroe High School campus)

• Provide a positive, safe, nurturing, healthy, developmentally appropriate classroom and outdoor environment for infants and toddlers.
• Implement Creative Curriculum for infant and toddlers in a center setting.
• Work effectively with individuals of diverse education, social economic and cultural backgrounds and those with special needs.
• Plan, prepare lesson plans, organize, and oversee a birth to three classroom.
• Conduct various screenings for children ages birth to age three when necessary.
• Perform basic health care procedures such as diapering, toileting, and feeding, etc.
• Prepare age-appropriate meals for children.
• Promote school readiness and set appropriate goals that address the five essential domains (social-emotional, cognition, perceptual motor and physical development, language/literacy and approaches to learning).
• Follow a consistent schedule, which includes small/large group experiences, choice time, music/movement, large/small motor activities, skill development, meals and effective transitions between activities.
• Encourage experimentation, exploration, problem-solving, cooperation, socialization, and ask open-ended questions, provide quality feedback and listen respectfully.
• Direct classroom activities and maintain appropriate discipline by redirecting and modeling.
• Prepare and maintain records, input data into the data system and do case management accurately and in a timely manner.
• Oversee and/or participate in meetings to discuss individual children.
• Provide families with connections and information on agencies and family assistance service beyond the scope of Early Head Start.
• Communicate with families in a positive manner on a regular basis.
• Maintain confidentiality at all times.
• Work with teacher assistant.
• Perform other duties such as answering the phone, cleaning the facility, etc.
• Be responsible for implementing Early Head Start, state and local regulations / policies and procedures.
• Be physically capable of lifting and supervising children at all times.
• Oversee maintenance, upkeep, inventory of classroom supplies, materials and equipment.
• Attend all necessary trainings, which at times will require traveling and overnight stays.
• Work non-traditional hours when necessary to meet the needs of the families.
• Conduct home visits; *at the beginning of the school year, *when a new child enrolls throughout the year, *at the end of the school year, *and a minimum of 2 visits per family per month during the months of June, July and August.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.
• Willingness to work with Early Head Start Director and other Early Head Start Staff.

Qualifications:

• Preference will be given to candidates with at least an undergraduate degree in Early Childhood Education.
• Applicant must have or be willing to be certified in infant and child CPR/First Aid/AED and have or get a food handlers card.
• Applicant must pass a criminal background check and drug screening.
• Applicant must complete and pass a physical.
• Applicant must have a valid driver's license and reliable transportation to make home visits.

Effective Date: 2026-2027 School Year

Salary: Base Pay with Bachelor's Degree, $48,097.50 for 212 days,

Salary based on experience and education level per Monroe County BOE salary schedule, plus competitive benefits package equal to approximately 35% of direct compensation.

Deadline for Application: July 12, 2026 @ 3:00 p.m.

Monroe County Schools is an equal opportunity education institution and will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex and disability in its activities, programs or employment practices as required by Title VI, Title IX and Section 504.

For information regarding civil rights or grievance procedures, contact Heather Broyles, Title IX Coordinator/Section 504 Coordinator, at the Monroe County Board of Education Office, Post Office Box 330, Union, West Virginia, 24983, 304-772-3094, extension 314. In addition, information regarding services, activities and facilities that are accessible to and usable by disabled persons can be obtained at the same above address.

In accordance with West Virginia Code §18A-2-7b, Monroe County Schools will be implementing the "Stay Put Rule." The WV Legislature has determined that frequent teacher changes—especially in elementary grades—are not in the best interest of students. As a result, the Legislature intends to minimize personnel transfers between professional positions within the 20 days preceding the start of the instructional term. However, the county board, based on the superintendent's recommendation, may approve filling a position during this period if it is deemed to serve the best interest of the students.