Details
Posted: 23-Jun-22
Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey
Salary: Open
Position Summary:
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Child Development Center Infant Teacher for the Psychology Child Development Center. This position is one of nine permanent positions at the Rutgers Psychology Child Development Center, a teaching and research setting which provides early childhood care/education for 68 children from the ages of 1 to 5 years. The child development center teacher is responsible for specific classroom duties, for supervising children, staff and college fieldwork students, is required to participate in professional development, and is expected to have positive interactions with all parents and staff.
Among the key duties of this position are the following:
- Writes and carries out developmentally appropriate lessons
- Ensures the physical well-being and safety of the children in the classroom
- Ensures smooth running of classroom by creating and adhering to a developmentally appropriate daily schedule and through planning developmentally appropriate activities
- Maintains daily attendance records for children
- Provides a clean, organized learning environment
- Actively supervises, engages, and directs support staff
- Documents weekly learning and development for each child through photos and videos which are later reviewed and assessed using the program's assessment tools
Minimum Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in child development, elementary education, early childhood education, or related field; or In lieu of Bachelor's degree in child development or related field, will also consider a candidate holding a Child Development Associate's degree (CDA) and 2 years' experience in an acceptable preschool situation.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Must enjoy working with children and be able to demonstrate patience and respect while employing appropriate strategies to effectively care and educate young children.
- Must be knowledgeable in Developmentally Appropriate Practice and implementation of these practices.
- Must be able to relate to adults on all levels of the socioeconomic structure of the community in a positive and professional manner.
- Must be in excellent health.
- Must be agile enough to perform job functions as a teacher of young children.
- Must be willing to continually increase knowledge in field of endeavor.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with University schedule and operations desired.
- Licensed elementary teacher with P-3 endorsement preferred.
- CDA (Child Development Associate) training desired.
- Fluency in Mandarin desired.
- Experience with implementing Creative Curriculum preferred.
- Experience with implementing ECERS and ITERS preferred.
- Experience with administering ASQ developmental ratings preferred.
- Continuous teaching experience in preschool classroom preferred.
- Preschool classroom teaching experience within past 3 years preferred.
- Current membership with NAEYC desired.
- Current membership with NJ Workforce Registry desired.
- Candidates with a teaching portfolio desired.
Equipment Utilized:
- Procare Software; Creative Curriculum GOLD and Tadpoles; data entry via iPad/Tablet; Microsoft Office Suite of programs
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
- Must be physically able to handle the duties encountered by a daycare worker: lifting children onto diapering table, chasing after them in the playground, sitting down on the floor/getting up from the floor for extended periods of time throughout the day to engage with children.
- Must be able to lift and carry children and equipment, and may spend time sitting on the floor or in child-sized furniture, etc.
- Must be patient and gentle with children and must demonstrate patience and tolerance for adults and college students who depend on the applicant to be a role model.
- Must be in good mental health-dealing with children and families is sometimes stressful and the applicant must be able to remain calm and collected in high-pressure situations.
- Will be expected to change diapers and assist in toilet training of young children.
- Will be expected to clean and maintain equipment and facility, and may move throughout the community with the children.
- Will be expected to participate in outdoor activities daily, in all types of weather.
- May come into contact with children who are ill and/or contagious, and must take precautions to ensure health and safety of all children, parents, staff, and themselves.
- Will be working in a busy and occasionally noisy environment where a number of activities and situations are happening at once.
- Must be prepared to handle accidents and emergencies at any time.
- May experience smells associated with toileting and children who are ill.
- Must be in excellent health. Caring for children can be stressful and physically demanding.
- Must be detail-oriented when recording daily experience details and information for parents and when assisting fieldwork students with questions and concerns.
Special Conditions:
- Applicant will be working with children under age 2 1/2 and must provide evidence of training specific to infants and toddlers, in accordance with state licensing requirements.
- Current New Jersey state elementary teacher's license with preschool/nursery endorsement (where applicable) preferred; will consider candidates holding a CDA or meeting NJ state Group Teacher licensing requirements.
- In accordance with state mandated requirements, qualified applicants must satisfy and maintain any and all Group Teacher requirements as specified in the Manual of Requirements for Child Care Centers and maintain active and current membership with the NJ Registry where documents verifying Group Teacher requirements are recorded and maintained up-to-date.
- Current American Red Cross First Aid/CPR Certifications (pediatric and adult)
- In accordance with state mandated requirements, a Mantoux test to verify the absence of tuberculosis. In addition, the successful applicant, must submit a written statement from a health care provider indicating that he or she is in good health, has had a physical exam within the past 6 months, and poses no health risk or threat of tuberculosis contagion to persons at the preschool.
- In accordance with state mandated requirements, inoculation against Hepatitis B, unless waived in writing by the successful candidate.
- In accordance with NJ State law, applicants must agree to undergo, and authorize the University to conduct fingerprint, criminal history and/or child abuse record checks with various law enforcement agencies, including but not limited to: the FBI, Identification Division and/or The New Jersey Division of State Police Bureau of Identification. Applicants must also assume any costs incurred by the University associated with the background investigations whether required by statute or not.
- In accordance with University policy, applicants must successfully complete the University's Working With Minors training.
Posting Number: 22ST2083
Location: Douglass (RU-New Brunswick)
