Our Mission:

*Benton Franklin Head Start partners with families and the community to promote school readiness through comprehensive services for young children and their families. *

Job Title: ECEAPLead Teacher

Position is full-time, 40 hours per week. 

*Description:  *Responsible for planning and implementing an individualized, developmentally appropriate educational program for children and ensuring the delivery of holistic, integrated services to children and their families.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Plans and implements an individualized, developmentally appropriate educational program for one

classroom of children.

• Coordinates with the Family Service Worker to maintain an adequate social services referral system for

         coordinating the resolution of family needs and goals to promote family strengthening.

• Assists with parent education and support program for all assigned families.

• Demonstrate high-quality language models in all their languages and strongly support continued home

         language development.

• Ensures supervision of children at all times.

• Provides quality services to children and families.
• Promotes parent involvement.

• Completes and maintains all required records, child/family files, reports, and Agency paperwork, timely

         and accurately.

• Provides leadership to team members.

• Primarily responsible for ensuring all services are provided to children assigned to their classroom.

*MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS *

Excellent written and oral communication skills.  The ability to read, write, and understand English.

Have the language and skills for teaching language and literacy development to young children.

Ability to actively participate in team development and team-oriented processes.

Excellent organizational and time management skills.

Ability to demonstrate sound decision making.

Ability to demonstrate leadership skills.

Good interpersonal skills essential.  

Functional computer skills.

Sensitive to the needs