We are currently searching for a full-time Preschool Lead Teacher to join our Howard
Area Family Center Team!

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Responsible for supporting a team approach to planning and implementing program activities.
• Collaborates with Family Support Workers, Teachers, Program Aide, site partners, and supervisor for the betterment of the classroom and families.
• Participates in ongoing CLASS implementation and monitoring.
• Guide and facilitate activities of the children and ensures appropriate child guidance and discipline and proper ratios are always maintained.
• Attend all mandated trainings.
• Set and achieve professional development goals. All professional development to be tracked in Gateways.
• Share resources with other staff members as appropriate.
• Use Teaching Strategies Gold to maintain ongoing, high-quality documentation of school readiness skills and maintain interrater reliability.
• Use Teaching Strategies Gold to communication with families through monthly newsletters and family conference forms.
• Responsible for the implementation of the program’s Planned Language

Approach which is specifically designed to support dual language learners.

• Schedule and conduct education home visits with teaching staff to discuss individual development and progress, assist parents in developing educational goals for their child.
• Maintain accurate teacher and child files.
• Ensure all transportation safety procedures are followed including utilization of the bus attendance log if applicable
• Ensure accurate completion CACFP documents in conjunction with the teaching staff.
• Builds and ensures positive and on-going relationships with parents, volunteers, and other staff members.
• Works with site supervisor and family support worker to exchange information pertinent to the identification and services of children with disabilities.
• Conducts and/or oversees screening of all children within prescribed time frames using the developmental, social emotional and other prescribed screenings tools.
• Ensures the curriculum is used to fidelity and that submission of weekly lesson plans including individualization for all children, including monitoring, and facilitating accommodations listed in IEPs and IFSPs.
• Provides a supportive, caring, and safe environment for children.

• Use the playground as an extension of the classroom; assures that the playground is safe.
• Provides active supervision to ensure the safety of children while in the classroom, during transitions, at time of transportation, and while on the playground. Ensures that no child shall be left alone or unsupervised.
• Ensures the usage of agency technology equipment and time are utilized for agency business.
• Ensures compliance with the agency’s code of conduct.
• Ensures agency’s fiscal integrity by adhering to purchase approval requirements and procedures.
• Assists in the development of the agency’s annual program self-assessment.
• Ensures all content area data is accurately reflected in the agency’s Program

Information Reports within set time frames.

• Participate in program recruitment efforts to maintain full enrollment.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Education or Education from an accredited college or university required.
• OR Bachelor’s degree in a field outside of ECE with 30 hours of Early Childhood

Education credit hours.

• Current registered Early Childhood Education Professional Educator License

(PEL)-Formally Type 02 or 04 State of Illinois teaching certificate preferred.

• Special Education Approval or Endorsement preferred.
• Employment with MFS requires proof of vaccination or an approved Medical exemption, required.
• Experience in planning and implementing learning experiences that advance the intellectual and physical development of children, including improving the readiness of children for school by developing their literacy, phonemic, and print awareness, their understanding and use of increasingly complex and varied vocabulary, their appreciation of books, their understanding of early math and early science, their problem-solving abilities, and their approaches to learning.
• Experience in establishing and maintaining a safe, healthy learning environment.
• Experience in supporting the social and emotional development of children.
• Experience in encouraging the involvement of the families of the children in an early childhood program and supporting the development of relationships between children and their families.
• Bilingual in Spanish or Yoruba, preferred.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• MFS staff are required to provide proof of vaccination or have an approved

Medical exemption prior to starting employment. If an approved Medical is obtained, weekly testing is required.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• While performing the essential duties of this job, the employee is required to sit and stand for sustained periods of time, frequently talk, hear, use hands and fingers to feel, handle and operate objects or controls, and occasionally stand, bend, stretch, stoop, kneel and crouch.
• The employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing, and viewing a computer terminal.
• The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds

Metropolitan Family Services offers a very generous benefits packet to our professionals:

• Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medical Coverage: HMO, Traditional PPO, or PPO w/

HSA contributions.

• Dental and Vision Insurance Options
• 13 paid Holidays and Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401K Plan
• Training and Professional Development Plan with E- Learning
• Wellness Initiative Program
• Employee Assistance Network

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $38,000.00 - $50,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

COVID-19 considerations:
COVID Protocols: Mandatory vaccination, face mask is required, social distancing when possible, and wash hands.

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Chicago, IL 60626: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Early childhood education: 1 year (Required)
• Teaching: 1 year (Required)

License/Certification:

• Teaching Certification (Preferred)
• Special Education Certification (Preferred)

Work Location: One location

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