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Benton Franklin Head Start Support Teacher in Richland, Washington
Our Mission:
*Benton Franklin Head Start partners with families and the community to promote school readiness through comprehensive services for young children and their families. *
JOB TITLE:Support Teacher
Position isfull-time 40 hrs. per week
DESCRIPTION: Responsible for providing support to a Lead Teacher and assisting the Site Supervisor.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Supports the Lead Teacher in providing quality educational and family services to children and their families.
Provides instructional assistance such as but not limited to: facilitating learning centers; individual and small group instruction; facilitating and modeling play; and model good nutrition practices during meal/snack times.
Helps provide developmentally appropriate environments for children.
Demonstrate high-quality language models in all their languages and strongly support continued home language development.
Provides basic care to children including assistance with toothbrushing, toileting, diapering, assisting physically ill children, assisting with the detection of head lice and communicable diseases.
Ensures supervision of children at all times; must be able to hear and see children at all times.
Report suspected child abuse or neglect to the immediate supervisor.
Supports the Lead Teacher with the caseload of families.
Assists with parent education and support program for all assigned families.
Promotes parent involvement.
Provide guidance and support to substitutes/sub floats when classroom lead teacher is absent.
Provides site office, clerical, and staffing support.
Attend staffing, meetings, and training when required or requested.
Assists with cleaning and disinfecting of classroom equipment and materials.
Completes and maintains all required records, child/family files, reports, and Agency paperwork, timely and accurately.
Responsible for maximizing and documentation of in-kind contributions.
Participates in professional development and opportunities for growth.
Ability to read, write, and understand English essential.
Demonstrates on-going professionalism.
Recruit for enrollment.
Support and assist volunteers serving in the classroom.