Job No. 155258
- Job Title:
- Early Childhood Education Assistant Teacher
- Employer:
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Location:
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Madison , WI
- Posting Date:
- 25-Mar-2025
- Description:
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Job Summary:
Eagle's Wing Child Care and Education Programs is hiring an Assistant Teacher!
We are currently hiring an Assistant Teacher for our infant and toddler rooms. Come join our teaching team and provide high quality, child-centered care and education programming within a child-initiated learning environment. Eagle's Wing is known for our multicultural, international community and a play-based approach focused on developmentally appropriate and engaging activities.
UW-Madison provides excellent benefits including generous paid vacation and personal holiday time, additional paid sick leave, nine (9) paid legal holidays throughout the year, and excellent retirement and benefits plans. Apply today!
Responsibilities:
Assists with curriculum preparation, classroom facilitation, and student monitoring to ensure safety and foster an environment of learning and development. Interacts regularly with parents.
40% Assists with the planning and facilitation of classroom programming and classroom coordination and organization for a early childhood education facility according to established curriculums
15% Maintains the safety and physical well-being of children in a designated classroom
15% Updates and organizes individualized and developmental educational plans for children
15% Assists with basic technical and administrative classroom support
15% Documents effective communication with internal and external stakeholders to relay pertinent information and provide updates of child activities per established guidelines and regulations
Tasks:
Performs duties in a highly diverse childcare center that provides early-childhood, 4K, and school-age programs.
Performs duties that support a multicultural, inclusive, and anti-bias approach to learning and educational environment.
Provides support and assist as needed in the implementation of plans and procedures in the event of an emergency.
Works in accordance with licensing rules and city/national accreditation standards.
Institutional Statement on Diversity:
Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.
For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: Diversity and Inclusion
Education:
Preferred
Associate's Degree
Qualifications:
Required:
- Minimum of one (1) year working in full day play-based Early Childhood Education environments.
- Completion of the Early Childhood Early Childhood Courses "Introduction to the Child Care Profession" and "Fundamentals of Infant and Toddler Care", or completion of equivalent courses.
Preferred:
- Training in High Scope, Pyramid Model and /or Conscious Discipline
- Bilingual (English/Spanish)
- Contact information:
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Madison, WI 53706
- United States
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