Afternoon Teacher (Part-Time), The Children’s Community School

Posted by The Children's Community School on April 9, 2024

Afternoon teachers are committed educators and lifelong learners who work as a team with morning teachers to support children, families, colleagues, and the school. Afternoon teachers hold primary responsibility for care of children in mixed-age groups in the later afternoons; they share responsibility for building relationships with children, teaching them, and guiding their behavior, as well as planning activities and communicating with families.

Responsibilities

• Ensure health and safety—ensure that children are physically cared for and safe, including supervision, feeding, bathrooming, and ensuring a safe environment
• Relationships with children—build trusting, communicative, supportive relationships with children; actively engage children in learning and school activities
• Guide behavior—support children in learning to behave in self-controlled, socially-appropriate ways, using methods in line with the school’s teaching philosophy
• Create positive environments—create classroom routines and culture that support a learning community
• Create and implement curriculum—in collaboration with the Afternoon Supervisor, plan and implement developmentally appropriate, play-based, emergent curriculum that continually supports children’s growth in all learning areas
• Support assessment of  children—observe children’s strengths and needs; communicate with other teachers about children
• Build relationships with families—engage in positive interactions with families at pick-up time; communicate with individual families as needed about events of the day and needs of the child
• Work collaboratively with colleagues—cooperate with other teachers (both on the teaching team and throughout the program) and administrators in implementing all aspects of the job responsibilities; collaborate with non-staff adults (e.g. subs, student teachers, service providers, etc.) to meet the needs of children and colleagues
• Continually improve practice—In an ongoing manner, evaluate and improve existing teaching practices, and seek and implement new practices; learn collaboratively with colleagues and children
• Care for the school—ensure that the school and its spaces stay clean, organized, safe, and prepared for children’s use
• Communicate—Participate in frequent, regular, prompt, and respectful communication with colleagues and families, including in-person, phone, and email communications
• Participate in the life of the school—Look out for the best interests of the school; build relationships with children, families, and colleagues; attend and participate in school events
• Demonstrate good work habits, including reliability, flexibility, and communication

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