Washington County Community College

On-the-job Training

• Monthly OJT Hours
• Relationships and Classroom Community
  • Connects with families and children to make them feel welcomed, safe and respected ensuring individual student needs are accounted for
  • Provides and supports staff in communicating clear and consistent behavioral expectations and minimizes transitions by designing classroom organization through intentional preparation and lesson planning
  • Plans, supervises and facilitates children’s involvement in all learning environment’s using a variety of modalities
  • Work under the guidance and direction of the Program Director to ensure growth in the area of child development through data and observations
  • Promotes and maintains a positive climate and assures that all staff are responsive to child perspectives
  • Provides frequent opportunities to engage in adult child interactions, encouraging self- help skills, ensuring staff participation promotes engagement and facilitates peer interactions during family style meals
• Assessment and Curriculum
  • Actively participates in curriculum planning sessions to develop clear learning objectives for optimal learning and designing unit lesson plans and supports teaching staff with professional development objectives
  • Share observations and provide ongoing documentation and record keeping on children as requested by Program Director
  • Recommends best practices to Director and designs lessons emphasizing children’s interests, culture, School Readiness goals, State Guidelines, physical activity recommendations.
  • Embraces, promotes, directs and participates in bi-lingual curriculum delivery outlined by the facility and provides support for staff as needed
  • Promote children's love of language, culture, learning, and playing alongside each other to prepare for success in school maintaining and supervising a safe, caring, and respectful environment where children are encouraged by adults and peers to express themselves
• Health and Nutrition
  • In partnership with the Program Director, will work with assistant teacher to ensure timely implementation and review results of child screenings within required timeframes.
  • Completes required meals and attendance records and submits to Director
  • Initiates and engages in reflective discussions with families related to health and developmental status of child to promote timely health care.
  • Assures on-going follow-up and related documentation in a timely manner related to unmet health outcomes and reports outcomes to Director
  • Models and promotes healthy eating habits and tooth brushing and provides staff with support
  • Models and promotes physical activity by demonstrating being physically active and provides staff with support
  • Assures proper cleaning, sanitation and disinfection procedures are followed by staff to promote healthy habits within the classroom environment and reports any concerns to Program Director
• Partners with families supporting parent-child relationships and promoting parents as first and most important teachers
  • Plans, initiates and participates in regularly planned outreach to parents for involvement with curriculum planning
  • Chooses curriculum to identify diverse family values, beliefs, faith traditions, cultural influences, family structure and circumstances and modifies curriculum to reflect family values.
  • Assures required parent education topics are being addressed through a variety of individual and group strategies through collaboration with other classroom staff and makes plans to follow up as needed
  • Engages parents in classroom and individualized curriculum discussion to establish effective home school connection and provides ongoing outreach
  • Recognizes need for and supports meaningful and intentional referrals for the child and families agency programs and provides documentation
  • Supports families in crisis by identifying options and resources and applying them to intervene when needed in collaboration with the Program Director.
• Program involvement, leadership, advocacy and social connections
  • In collaboration with staff and Program Director, facilitate orienting parents and other volunteers, encourage parent participation and visitation in the classroom, attend parent meetings as requested and/or provide childcare
  • Actively plans for and facilitates frequent parent participation on child care facility sponsored enrichment activities community events
  • Regularly updates and educates parents about child care facility services
• Practice safe working habits and contribute to a safe and peaceable workplace
  • With Program Director, assist staff in planning and implementing a daily age-appropriate program that meets the needs of groups of children as well as individuals, providing for their health, safety and education
  • Ensure the safety of children at all times. Never leave a child unattended or unsupervised and provide expectations to staff in multiple modalities
  • Recognize, document and report signs of illness and other concerns to Program Director and support staff in adhering to protocol
  • Supervise staff and work with Program Director in maintaining a clean, safe and developmentally appropriate environment for children
  • Documents and communicates to staff and Director to assure required emergency procedures are practiced and communicated with families
  • Promotes protective factors to prevent child abuse and neglect; identifies and refers families to the Dept. of Health and Human Services Child Protection Services and maintains up to date records of all referrals
• Contributes to effective program practices and interdisciplinary approaches
  • Demonstrate and promote the facility's child development philosophy, plans and policies, and mission, vision, and values to staff and parents
  • Facilitates effective, purposeful and respectful team communications while promoting staff input to promote continuous program improvement
  • Assist Program Director and supervise staff in orienting parents and other volunteers, encourage parent participation and visitation in the classroom, attend parent meetings as requested and/or provide child care as needed
  • Assume all classroom responsibilities in absence of Assistant Teacher
  • Establish and maintain effective working relationships with Program Director, center staff, parents and community
  • Participate in staff or related meetings as requested
  • Work cooperatively as a team member, assisting where needed in the center
• Exhibits a positive attitude and a professional, confidential and collaborative approach with supervisor, co-workers, clients, partners and community
  • Communicates positively and effectively using appropriate verbal, nonverbal and written messages
  • Demonstrates effective and appropriate communication ensuring respect for culture and language
  • Promotes community partnerships and initiatives
  • Establishes and maintains professional boundaries
  • Supports and actively participates in team building and collaboration efforts
• Displays a commitment to continuous professional development and reflective practice
  • Assesses self, values and ethics as they impact work with families
  • Maintains required certifications
  • Completes mandated trainings
  • Seeks opportunities for ongoing professional growth; implements to improve practice and share with colleagues as appropriate
  • Demonstrates progress toward annual evaluation goals
• Demonstrates Leadership skills
  • Collaborates with state leaders, board members, administrators, colleagues, parents and students towards a common goal
  • Shares collective knowledge, content, educational resources and tips for success with colleagues as a mentor
  • Administers careful due diligence in adopting curriculum, implementing instruction and employing assessments
  • Enables diverse and inclusive learning environments
  • Guides collective responsibility, school practices, procedures & policies