Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30-4:30 with a daily 30 minute paid break & weekly 1 hour team meeting (4:30-5:30).
Compensation: $18.00-20.00/hour starting rate. After 90 days of employment, option to stay at $20/hour or move to annual salary starting at $37,500-43,000. Raise offered after one year of employment with satisfactory performance.
Benefits: Employer-matched IRA contribution, Dental & vision insurance
Vacations: We operate 12 months a year with two, summer breaks totaling 4 weeks. Two weeks off for New Years, one week off for Spring Break. Paid bank holidays. PTO offered for both sick and personal days.
We are looking for an individual to join our small team of teachers as Assistant Teacher. We would like to find someone who:
Loves the outdoors (we spend ~5 hours outdoors daily, in all weather, all seasons)
Is comfortable in a leadership position
Is a life-long-learner and willing collaborator
Is able to find humor in challenging situations
Is comfortable receiving guidance and support from others
Is playful, energetic and enjoys the company of others
Is civically minded and dedicated to serving the community
Is emotionally sensitive, observant, and reflective
Is interested in language, sensory, and cognitive development in early childhood
Responsibilities:
As assistant teacher, you will be expected to collaborate closely with your teaching team to facilitate meaningful experiences for the children in your care. This process includes:
Communicating clearly with your co-teacher regarding what experiences will be set-up and delegating responsibilities
Learning about and understanding the Livingston Street pedagogy and practices
Observing the children in your care and responding to their behavior accordingly
Asking questions and learning from other teachers with respect and open-mindedness
Getting to know the individuals - children, parents, colleagues - in our community and building meaningful, genuine relationships, including participation in community events
Daily custodial duties such as cleaning, meal prep, organizing, etc
New York State requires 15 hours of training each year plus bi-annual CPR and First-Aid certification.
Livingston Street follows a process-based approach when it comes to childcare. We want children to be practicing skills while in our care - skills like independence, communicating with others, negotiating materials and turn-taking, sharing physical space with others, building connections and culture with peers. Our time together is focused on being engaged in our environment. We use our understanding of childhood development (what actions/experiences/activities children are drawn to, what intrigues them, what do they enjoy, what is fulfilling, what is exciting) to plan the experiences we set up, and to determine how we intervene and interact.
You will be expected to communicate often with parents. Frequent communication helps us to get to know one another and build connections to carry us through harder conversations. Being a childcare provider means being in close relationship to parents and being privy to sensitive aspects of family life. Co-teachers must be respectful and apt communicators in order to successfully support the child, the family, and confront developmental challenges.
Assistant teachers at Livingston Street model what they want to see. We want children to be engaged in their surroundings, so we are too. We want children to get to know their peers, so we get to know them too. We want children to play, investigate, explore, problem-solve…so we do too. Young children are practicing how to be in this world, behavior is their very first and strongest teacher.
About Us
At Livingston Street Early Childhood Community, emotional well-being and social competence are nourished in young children through the creation of meaningful relationships with a diverse group of people, the development of early literacy and communication skills, and school wide participation in the process of community service. We have five goals in support of our mission:
To provide a safe and fun place for children to explore and develop their own sense of identity.
To create relationships of compassion, trust, and respect, and to provide a network of social support, community engagement, and cooperative spirit for children, families and staff.
To provide an integrated education, recognizing that social/emotional, cognitive and physical development are inextricably linked.
To create an early childhood community that embraces the diversity of the broader community.
To promote the ideals of community involvement.
