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Christopher House is a catalyst for strengthening and empowering low-income children and their families. Each employee plays an important role in creating an environment where children and families feel safe, valued and respected.

Responsibilities: Supervises: Teaching Staff. Provide technical assistance, advisement, support and role modeling to teaching staff in curriculum and developmental issues. Maintain knowledge in the field in order to develop professional skills. Ensures the safety of the children in a healthy environment and serves as a positive role model.

Assist in the development of curriculum used in the classrooms. Coordinates monthly teacher meetings to ensure on-going cooperation among staff and to ensure that individual teachers are working towards a unified approach to maintain a strong classroom presence. Ensure compliance with all curriculum related to funding and licensing requirements. Review lesson plans on a weekly basis, make any recommendations for needed changes and follow through on implementation of lesson plans. Provides a copy each week to the Associate Director of Education and Curriculum, Associate Director of Parent Involvement, Associate Director 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. 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.

Ensures ECDS program is in compliance with EHS, State Pre-K and Child Care contractual mandates as it relates to child assessment. Provide training, support and follow up to program staff regarding the HAWAII Early Learning Profile (H.E.L.P.), Ages and Stages and Ages and Stages Social Emotional Questionnaire, Portfolio and Parent Teacher Conferences.

Assists Program Director, ECDS and Site Director in the ongoing process of assuring the highest quality programming and best practices as well as NAEYC Accreditation and re-accreditation processes occurs at each appropriate site.

Christopher House is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.

PLEASE DO NOT APPLY IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A BA AND TYPE 04 CERTIFICATION

Qualifications: Three to five years of direct experience working with Infant, Toddlers and Two Year Olds and/or three to five year olds, preferably in a Head Start, Preschool, Pre-K or governmentally funded child care program. Supervisory experience is required. Bilingual skills in a variety of languages are a plus.

required with 04 certification

Submit cover letter and resume to:
Laura Forster, Associate Director of Early Childhood Development
4701 N Winthrop, Chicago Il. 60640
Fax: 773-769-6362
Email: Lforster@christopherhouse.org