Support Preschool Educators
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If you want to be a part of a growing organization and make a difference in the community, come work for Shalom Austin!
About the Job
We need you to fill the role of an Support Preschool Educators. This is a full-time, hourly position. It’s an exciting opportunity for a creative educator eager to collaborate with like-minded professionals in a progressive, mission-driven, non-profit organization. You’ll wow us by masterfully performing the following key duties and responsibilities:
- Assist the Lead Educator during their work period in the classroom where needed.
- Assist with art projects as needed.
- Help with lunchtime and assist during nap times .
- Integrates a passion for children with a love of experiential, child-led, hands-on learning.
- Value a child as capable, resilient, and rich with both wonder and knowledge and instinctively discover with the children in their curiosity and investigations about the world.
- Have the organizational and critical thinking skills to successfully manage an extended care classroom with another educator and partner with families in a values-based program.
- Implement time-management and behavior management strategies to adhere to extended care classroom schedules including individual and group activities, classroom and playground times, enrichment projects, toileting/diapering, and snack.
- Implement open-ended questioning strategies and positive redirection, as well as provide facilitative rather than supervisory classroom skills .