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Location: Wooster, OH Category: Staff Posted On: Wed Jul 17 2024 Job Description:

Summary:

The Substitute Nursery School Teacher educates and cares for young children enrolled in the nursery school. This position requires a team-teaching mindset, being able to effectively communicate with parents, and collaborate with the campus community. This is a one year, part-time position. 

 

Essential Departmental Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Provides quality care and education to young children during class sessions assigned.
  • Plans curriculum, collaborates with team members to teach, prepares projects and prepares the classroom.
  • Monitors and notifies the Nursery School Director of any needed classroom materials. 
  • Effectively communicates with parents through daily contact, parent-teacher conferences, a fall parent meeting, phone calls, class potlucks, holiday and end-of-year parties.
  • Informs the Nursery School Director about all important child and family issues.
  • Oversees college students involved in the nursery school.
  • Monitors, oversees and guides college student involvement while communicating and modeling quality early childhood practices. 
  • Maintains compliance with licensing requirements by staying current in CPR, first aid, communicable disease training, child abuse prevention, and completing required fingerprinting and medical exams as necessary.
  • Provides extra classroom coverage during the first week of school, winter and spring breaks, visitation days, summer camp, and other special events as needed.
  • Participates in professional development, including State or National Education conferences and teacher’s workshops.
  • Documents child observations, parent-teacher conferences, and end-of-year child reports.
  • Attends staff meetings.    
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements:

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

 

Education and/or Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) from four-year college or university; one to two years related experience and/or training preferred. 
  • State licensing required certificates. 

 

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

Skills: 

  • Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form, using commonsense understanding of problem-solving. 
  • Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.  
  • Must have experience in analyzing and automating processes.

Knowledge: 

  • Team player contributions to building a positive team spirit.
  • Demonstrates dependable and responsible actions.
  • Generates creative solutions.
  • Possess basic computer skills.
  • Displays a professional demeanor. 

Abilities: 

  • Acknowledges and complies with all departmental SOP, safety, and college requirements.
  • Applies institutional policies on a case-by-case basis.
  • Strong professional ethics and discretion with an attitude of respect for all employed at CoW.
  • Commitment to CoW’s mission, vision and values and demonstrated ability to create and sustain an organizational climate based on inclusion, social justice, and equity.

  

Work Environment:

  • The job requires standing, walking, running, sitting in small chairs and on the floor, fine motor skills, talking, hearing and sight.
  • Lifting may be necessary up to 50 pounds to included lifting or carrying small children or educational equipment.
  • Moderate to loud noise – sounds of children.

 

Physical Demands: 

  • While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear.
  • The employee is frequently required to stand, walk and climb stairs.
  • The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/may move up to 25 pounds.
  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
  • May sit for long periods of time while working on a computer.

Additional Information:

The College of Wooster does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex/gender, gender identity, gender expression, medical condition, political affiliation, religion, creed, ethnicity, national origin (including ancestry), citizenship status, disability, age, marital status, family responsibilities, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, predisposing genetic characteristics, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by institutional policy, or by state, local, or federal law. All offers of employment are subject to verification of the legal right to work in the United States as required by federal law. The College of Wooster is committed by policy and practice to diversity, equity and inclusion. For more information see our nondiscrimination policy.