Christopher House (CH) is searching for Master Teachers looking to grow professionally in the field of Early Childhood Development. Candidates must possess a specialized interest and passion for working with Infants, Toddlers, and Two-year old’s.

With a mission to develop independent, creative, lifelong learners, our infant, preschool, elementary and family schools build a community of students, teachers, and parents committed to excellence, achievement and perseverance, respect and compassion, and equality of opportunity.

Christopher House partners with parents to provide a continuum of education for students from birth through high school, as well as immersive family supports that help parents create stable, self-sufficient families. We operate accredited early learning, elementary, and out of school time programs grounded in research-based curricula and high-quality instruction.

OUR BELIEFS

Children and families thrive when:

• Education begins at birth and continues throughout life, with parents as a child’s first teacher;
• Home environments nurture literacy, achievement, and children’s success;
• Parents have high standards and set high expectations for themselves, their children, and children’s schools;
• Professionally trained teachers know their students as individuals;
• Evaluations and program improvements are data driven;
• Parents and staff work together to continuously evaluate and improve programming;
• Education includes the development of creativity and perseverance and is multi-disciplinary in order to foster each child’s unique strengths and interests;
• Developing independent, creative, life-long researchers, education must include curriculum designed to help scholars develop socially and emotionally as well as cognitively;
• Diversity is celebrated and explored so that learners develop broad perspectives on life and learning; and
• Parents and caregivers support their children financially and emotionally.

Position Objectives:

• Determine the needs and provide for the development of children birth through three
• Work to create a safe environment for children and act as a role model for teaching staff
• Implement and maintain all components regarding children birth through three, based on EHS, State Pre-K, Child Care and state and local requirements

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical assistance, advisement, support and role modeling to members of the Infant, Toddler and Two’s teaching staff in curriculum and development issues
• Coordinate monthly teacher meetings to ensure on-going cooperation among staff and to ensure that individual teachers are working towards a unified approach to infant, toddler and two’s development; maintain a strong classroom presence
• Ensure compliance with all curriculum related to funding and licensing requirements pertaining to the Infant, Toddler and Two’s program.
• Review lesson plans on a weekly basis, make any recommendations for needed changes and follow through on implementation of lesson plans
• Provide a copy each week to the Associate Director of Early Childhood, Associate Director of Parent Involvement and Manager of Health and Disabilities
• Meet with the teaching staff and the Manager of Health and Disabilities to ensure compliance to and an understanding of appropriate health and nutrition practices.
• Coordinate portfolio assessments of all children in a timely manner and conduct classroom observations monthly
• Ensure that parent-teacher conferences are conducted twice a year and assist teachers in both preparation and conducting these conferences, as needed.
• Provide training, support and follow up to program staff regarding Creative Curriculum, Ages and Stages and Ages and Stages Social Emotional Questionnaire, Portfolio and Parent Teacher Conferences.

Qualifications:

• Strong alignment with Christopher House’s Values and Mission;
• Strong work ethic coupled with a proactive problem-solving approach;
• Two years of experience working in a birth through three-year-old classroom, preferably in an Early Head Start or governmentally funded child care program;
• Bi-lingual skills in English/Spanish is desirable

Education:

• Associate's Degree or Bachelor’s Degree in Infant/Toddler Studies, Early Childhood Education or Child Development and Illinois Gateways Infant/Toddler Level 5 credential. Please do not apply if you do not have early childhood or child development credits as this is a requirement of our funders.

Christopher House is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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