Preschool Teaching Assistant - Little Rock
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What you will do:
- Our ideal candidate is someone who is excited to learn and is passionate about helping children in a fun, engaging, and collaborative manner.
- Ensure a positive emotional climate
- Assist the Classroom Teacher(s) by engaging children through:
- Curriculum implementation
- Playground activities
- Direct childcare needs (feeding, diapering, and changing clothing, etc.)
- Collaborate with the Classroom Teacher(s) to ensure learning environments are established and maintained to motivate and enable children to achieve developmental milestones appropriate for their age.
- Ensure that a clean, safe, healthy, and sanitary learning environment is maintained and that children are kept clean, clothing is changed when necessary, and toys and other materials are disinfected each day.
- Collaborate with Classroom Teacher(s) to respond intentionally to challenging behavior by helping children de-escalate and prompting appropriate skills
- Assist the Classroom Teacher(s) in ensuring treatment plans developed by developmental evaluators are implemented
- Ensure each child's growth and development by utilizing intervention strategies established by healthcare professionals
- Toilet training and diaper changing will be required
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Willingness to work with developmentally at risk children
- Ability to collaborate effectively with a team
- Ability to engage in a manner that is fun, child-centered, mindful, and authentic
- Patience, positivity, & resilience
- Ability to react to direction in real-time
- Ability to adapt approach based on a child's developmental needs
- Ability to communicate effectively with various stakeholder types (classroom staff, therapists, preschool administration, parents, etc.)
- Willingness to ask questions and seek guidance as needed
- Working knowledge of computer technology
- High School Diploma / GED
- Available Monday - Friday
- One year of experience working with children in a professional setting (preferred)
- Pass a criminal background check and drug screen
- Physical Demands:
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to talk or hear. The employee is regularly required to walk, sit, use hands and fingers to handle, lift, feel, and reach. The employee is frequently required to stand and stoop, twist, bend, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include near and distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. The employee is required to maintain regular and punctual attendance. The employee is required to complete tasks in a timely manner.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and prohibit discrimination/harassment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
What you have:
- Willingness to work with developmentally at risk children
- Ability to collaborate effectively with a team
- Ability to engage in a manner that is fun, child-centered, mindful, and authentic
- Patience, positivity, & resilience
- Ability to react to direction in real-time
- Ability to adapt approach based on a child's developmental needs
- Ability to communicate effectively with various stakeholder types (classroom staff, therapists, preschool administration, parents, etc.)
- Willingness to ask questions and seek guidance as needed
- Working knowledge of computer technology
- Minimum Requirements:
- High School Diploma / GED
- Available Monday - Friday
- One year of experience working with children in a professional setting (preferred)
- Pass a criminal background check and drug screen
- Physical Demands:
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to talk or hear. The employee is regularly required to walk, sit, use hands and fingers to handle, lift, feel, and reach. The employee is frequently required to stand and stoop, twist, bend, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include near and distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. The employee is required to maintain regular and punctual attendance. The employee is required to complete tasks in a timely manner.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and prohibit discrimination/harassment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
- Compensation: Starts at $12.50 per hour
- Full Time
- #IND789
About Pediatrics Plus
Private pediatric healthcare provider delivering physical, occupational, speech, and ABA therapy plus developmental preschool to children.
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