Job Description

For over 125 years, Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens has been providing quality social services to the neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Queens and currently offers 160-plus programs and services for children, youth, adults, seniors, and those struggling with mental illness.

Early Childhood Development Centers provide free Early Head Start services to low-income families at no cost to the children ages 6 weeks to 3 years. The high-quality services are offered in the center-based program settings available for the Brooklyn and Queens Communities.

Through the Montessori approach, the centers ensure children are ready for school by providing a variety of developmentally appropriate activities that promote cognitive, social, emotional, language-literacy, and physical development. The Early Head Start Program strives to actively engage parents, recognizing family participation throughout the program, as a key to a child’s robust development as well as to offer the learning experiences tailored to the changing needs and abilities of children.

STATEMENT OF THE JOB

The Early Head Start (EHS) Teacher will lead the teaching team in planning and executing age and developmentally appropriate activities reflecting the Montessori curriculum. The Teacher will be responsible to implement activities that will promote social, emotional, cognitive, physical and creative development of children. The Teacher will elicit input from the Team to complete written observations, progress reports, and other documents relevant to the tracking of children’s progress. The Teacher will adhere to policies and procedures established by CCNS, ACS, DOH, DOE, and CACFP and comply with procedural norms and standards of attendance, punctuality, and confidentiality relevant to HIPAA.

• Ensures a learning environment based on the Montessori approach that helps the children develop physically, emotionally, socially, cognitively, and creatively.
• Participates in the implementation of activities that will promote social, emotional, cognitive, physical, and creative development of children.
• Ensures daily routines such as napping, eating, toileting, timely diaper changing, and washing are carried out in a healthy manner with respect given to an individual child’s needs.
• Ensures information regarding children and the program is shared with parents via daily contact and informal/formal interfacings, home visits, newsletters, etc.
• Ensures information obtained via observations, conferences, tracking, etc. is used to design developmentally appropriate and individualized lesson plans.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

• CDA (Child Development Associate) Credential required plus a Study Plan to obtain an Associate’s Degree in Early Childhood Education within 7 years.
• Associate Degree; Bachelors Degree; Masters Degree in Early Childhood Education or in related field (Elementary Education, Nursery to 6th Grade Elementary Education, Special Education, Students with Disabilities Birth to 2nd Grade; Child Psychology, Child Development, General Education accompanied by 12 credits specific to Early Childhood Education) preferred.
• N.Y.S. Initial/Professional Certification - Birth-2 preferred. Nursey to 6th grade, Birth to 2nd Grade, pre-k to 6th Grade, student with disabilities - birth to 2nd grade, and Special education in Nursery or Kindergarten to 12th grade preferred.
• Minimum of 1 year of teaching experience in a pre-school classroom or infant toddler classroom.
• If not already Montessori trained, must commit to enroll in the Agency’s Montessori training program within the first year of hire.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, talking, hearing, seeing, stooping, kneeling crawling, crouching
• Must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.
• Ability to travel to multiple locations within the five boroughs as needed.

BENEFITS

• We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits, including:
• Generous time off (Vacation/ Personal Days/ Sick Days/ Paid Holidays annually)
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Retirement Savings with Agency Match
• Transit
• Flexible Spending Account
• Life insurance
• Public Loan Forgiveness Qualified Employer
• Training Series and other additional voluntary benefits.

For more information on our organization, please visit our website at:

www.ccbq.org