As a teacher at First Circle Learning, you nurture each child while ensuring their individual needs are met. With every interaction, you create learning opportunities for the kids and help foster their growth. You help create an environment where the children feel comfortable expressing themselves and exploring their talents and strengths. You balance the needs of your group while supporting each child’s individual learning pace, interests, and needs.
You use your flexibility and creative thinking skills to keep children engaged. With your excellent communication skills, you foster healthy partnerships with the families by keeping them updated on their child’s progress. You take great pride in helping children grow and achieve their goals!
current job openings
TEACHER
Are you an experienced early childhood educator whose greatest passion is to watch children learn and grow? Want to change the world and have fun doing it? Each day, our educators have the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of the children by teaching through play and hands-on activities.
infant teacher
toddler teacher
preschool teacher
prekindergarten teacher
floating teacher
duties and responsibilities
- Collaborate with co-teachers to design and implement learning activities in line with First Circle’s curriculum, using a variety of different teaching techniques and methods
- Balance the art of leading a group while supporting each child’s learning pace, style, interests and needs
- Support children in successfully meeting all developmental objectives, learning real-world content, and developing their imagination, curiosity, self-esteem and a love for learning.
- Serve as role models
- Foster partnerships with our families
- Provide caregiving activities
- Identify behavioral problems and employ effective corrective actions
- Adhere to teaching standards and health and safety regulations
- Demonstrate every day humor and patience, enthusiasm for children’s learning, communication skills, respect for differences, and most of all, creativity and flexibility.
- Floating teachers are assigned to a variety of classrooms/age groupings.
qualifications
- Previous working experience as a child care teacher
- EEC Certification*
- College degree in education or similar relevant field preferred, but not required
- Certificate in first aid and CPR
- Additional teaching and/or educational license/certificate is a big advantage
- In-depth knowledge of child development
- Must enjoy working with children
- Outstanding communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Creative and artistic teaching abilities
- Patience and flexibility
assistant TEACHER
We are looking for enthusiastic and adaptable candidates who are interested in learning more about early childhood education. This is a great opportunity to start your career in early childhood education, as many of our assistant teachers grow to take on teacher role over time, thanks to our tuition reimbursement program.
assistant teacher
assistant teacher
duties and responsibilities
- Support the teacher with the safety and supervision of children, caregiving, as well as implementation of curriculum
- Show children respect, interacting with them in caring and individualized ways, implementing clear and consistent limits for children’s behavior, and providing tools and resources for children to use and explore during learning and play activities.
- Engage in supportive individual interactions with children to establish trust, encourage motivation, engagement and a positive attitude towards learning.
- Support children in successfully meeting all developmental objectives, learning real-world content, and developing their imagination, curiosity, self-esteem and a love for learning.
- Demonstrate every day humor and patience, enthusiasm for children’s learning, communication skills, respect for differences, and most of all, creativity and flexibility.
- Assistants are assigned to a variety of classrooms/age groupings.
qualifications
- Experience working with children
- Strong interpersonal skills and a customer-service oriented mindset
- Willingness to grow and learn
- Patience and flexibility
Are you ready to join our early childhood team?
If you feel that you would be right for this childcare job, please submit your resume and we’ll be happy to show you how joining our team will be your first step to making a positive change in your life.
OUR BENEFITS INCLUDE:
- Full-time position with flexible hours
- Competitive salary: based on level of education, certification and experience
- Signing bonus of $2000!
- Health and dental Insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Life insurance
- 3-5 weeks of paid time off
- Paid holidays and snow days
- Tuition reimbursement
- Professional development
- Paid First Aid and CPR
- Friendly team of teachers that are professional, supportive and passionate about teaching.
We’re
looking forward
to getting to
know you!