Preschool Teacher

**Overview of the Pre-school Teacher role**

A Preschool Teacher is responsible for creating a safe, nurturing, and stimulating environment for young children. They plan and implement educational activities that promote cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development while ensuring children's well-being and safety.

**Job Title**:Preschool Teacher

**Role**:Full-time/ Onsite

**Work Days**:Monday to Saturday

**Timings**:08:30 AM to 2:30 PM or 09:00- 03:00 PM

**Location**:Mention at the time of posting

**Responsibilities**:
**Classroom Management**
- Create a nurturing environment.
- Ensuring children's records, teacher’s corner is updated with accurate information.
- Maintain a clean and safe environment, welcoming for children.
- Display boards and children’s work is always updated.
- Ensuring children's bags and belongings are neatly stored away and mindfully packed everyday for return to home.
- Ensuring meal arrangement is led on time.

**Learning Engagement**
- Adhere to KKPS annual planner, ensuring monthly planners are executed as per the lesson plans provided by the academic team.
- Adjusting lesson plans as per the need and interests of children if required.
- Providing seven areas of learning environment as per EYFS curriculum for children.
- Expose children to a variety of learning spaces like outdoor, indoor area play, splash pool and role play areas.
- Encourage kids to explore, participate in activities and develop a curious side of their nature.
- Help children develop emotionally and socially.
- Use diverse teaching aids and tools such as visual aids, storybooks and educational toys.
- Use different educational activities to improve kids motor skills, cognitive skills, hand-eye coordination, gripping, sensory activities etc.
- Keep a record of each child’s learning and carry out child observations to mark the development milestones of each child.
- Preparing Learning Journeys and report cards.
- Execute school initiatives

**Health & safety compliance**
- Carrying out risk assessment for classrooms and keeping the office informed for corrective measures.
- Ensuring children are always in the ratio of adult supervision.
- A child should always be attended by an adult.
- Always be informed about allergies and illness of the child.
- Incidents should be reported in a timely and transparent manner.
- Keeping children in hygienic and safe conditions. Ensuring classrooms are naturally ventilated during the day and are kept odour free.
- Ensuring children are served fresh and hygienic meals.
- Children washroom practices need to be attended promptly. Ensuring facilities are cleaned and maintained by nannies.

**Communication with parents**
- Provide an update of each child's day, including meals, and educational activities daily.
- Use a parent communication app. As per the guidelines.
- Always be updated with the child's progress, meal, care, schedule requirements.
- Encourage parent Involvement in events and school initiatives.
- Make care calls to the parents regularly about the child's progress, behaviours and achievements to better understand their needs.
- Schedule regular meetings with parents (PTM) to discuss their child's progress and how they can help at home.Be able to conduct parent-teacher meetings successfully by handling concerns professionally
- Address behavioural or developmental concerns with parents sensitively. Maintain a positive and collaborative relationship with families.
- Communicate regularly with parents about their child's development and progress.

**Additional responsibilities**
- Coordinate and participate in school events.
- Help in preparing centre displays.
- Provide substitute assistance in the absence of other team members.

**Educational Qualifications**:

- 10+2 (Higher Secondary education) with a certification in Early Childhood Education or Nursery teacher training (NTT)
- Graduation in any discipline.
- First Aid and CPR Certification (optional)

**Work Experience**:

- Minimum 1-2 years of experience in a Preschool.

**Skills**:

- Patient, nurturing and love for working with children.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Mobile and social media savvy. Should be confident in using parent communication app.
- Be able to work on MS-office with basic skills for developing planner and schedules.
- Ability to come up with engaging and innovative teaching methods.
- Creativity and ability to prepare and design display boards and decorations.
- Strong organizational, time management skills and able to carry out multiple tasks at a time.
- Being able to keep up with the energy levels of young children throughout the day.
- Disciplined and well groomed.

**Additional Information**:

- Distance to workplace: 1 to 8
- Comfortable in wearing uniform.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: ₹15,000.00 - ₹25,000.00 per month

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Morning shift

Work Location: In person