Preschool Teacher

Are you a teacher who is passionate about creating a safe and fun environment for a child’s first learning experience? Do you thrive when working in a positive group setting with like-minded teachers? Sportsplex is offering a fantastic opportunity for someone who desires to join our well-established & outstanding Tot Time School! Not only do we have top-notch teachers and excellent curriculum, we have an incredible facility in which we offer children swim and tennis lessons incorporated into the program.

Sportsplex is looking to add a part time 2 year old teacher to our program M-Th 8:30-noon. The ideal candidate is energetic, fun-loving, creative and a good team player. Our preschool services children ages 2 through 5 years old with both full day and half day options. Located within a state of the art multi-sports health and fitness facility, Tot Time Preschool combines education and play for our youngest learners.

What you will be doing:

• Develop lesson plans with your co-teacher based off a carefully created curriculum
• Employ a variety of educational techniques to teach children
• Observe each child to help improve their social competencies and build self-esteem
• Encourage children to interact with each other and help them to resolve occasional conflicts
• Organize nap and snack hours and supervise children to ensure they are safe at all times
• Track children’s progress and report to parents
• Communicate with parents regularly to help to achieve success for each child
• Collaborate with other educators - teachers must work together to achieve weekly and monthly goals
• Maintain a clean and tidy classroom consistent with OCFS standards
• Be comfortable taking and preparing the kids ( i.e. getting them dressed ) for swim and tennis classes
• Comfortable using Class Dojo to communicate with families and Canva to create classroom displays, newsletters and engaging materials
• Ability to learn and effectively use technology to support classroom communication and organization

Pay: $18.00 - $20.00 per hour

Expected hours: 16.0 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance

Work Location: In person