PreK Teacher Assistant/After Care

Summary

We are an academic preschool serving children 3yrs and toilet trained to 6 years old. This is a teacher assistant position helping the lead teacher in the PreK room with daily tasks 8:30am - 3pm, then taking the aftercare students from 3pm-close (6pm although most of our students leave by 5pm Monday, Wednesday and Friday. This is an 8hr shift.

If you enjoy working with children in a structured, organized, and fun environment this job is for you!

Located at Rose Garden Lane and Cave Creek Rd, just north of the 101.

Duties

The Teacher Assistant position is responsible for:

• assisting the teacher where needed
• sanitizing tables between activities
• helping children with snack and lunch from home
• implementing TA curriculum as directed by the lead teacher
• assisting in keeping the classroom and classroom restroom clean

The Aftercare position is responsible for:

• Help children transition into the aftercare room
• Offer center-based options for play, or coloring, or games
• Greet parents when they arrive for pick up and help children get their backpacks on for home
• Maintain attendance at all times on the tablet through the Brightwheel app.
• Organize bookshelf at the end of the day
• Some cleaning is required after the last child leaves. Wiping down sinks, taking out trash, cleaning the table, etc.

Requirements

All staff are required to have:

• CPR/First Aid certificate
• AZ Fingerprint Clearance Card
• High School Diploma
• Driver's License
• Authorization to work in the US

Nice To Haves

Our program curriculum offers the following:

• Spalding
• Singapore Math concrete concepts
• Core Knowledge for Preschool

Experience in any of the above is helpful but not required.

Benefits

• Employee contributed 401K plan.
• PTO earned and used for any reason.
• We follow the PVUSD school calendar so you can be off at the same time if you have a school age child. Work winter break, spring break or take it off.
• Preschool sponsored team bonding events
• Preschool paid trainings
• Monday Wednesday Friday 8:3am - 6pm or when the last child leaves, typically we are done by 5pm
• We work for great families, and we have a great team delivering an educational environment to children in our community.