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.
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
*For floating teachers, we do not require certification, but will assist and sponsor you in pursuing EEC certification!
Do you love working with young children? Have you been looking for a place where you can grow and learn and develop your career? 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.
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.
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
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.