Daycare Teacher

Job Title: Preschool Teacher

A Daycare 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: Daycare Teacher

Role: Full-time/ Onsite

Work Days: Monday to Saturday

Timings: 09:00 AM to 6:00 PM or 12 Noon- 7:00 PM

Location: MERCURY BLOCK, PRESTIGE TECH PARK, Kadubeesanahalli, Marathahalli, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560103, India

Job Responsibilities:

Classroom Management

• Ensuring age-appropriate resources are labelled and accessible for use.
• Ensuring children 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 bags and belongings are neatly stored away and mindfully packed everyday for return to home.
• Ensuring meal and nap arrangement is led on time.

Learning Engagement

• Ensuring adherence to the daily schedules and routine of the children.
• Providing seven areas of learning environment as per EYFS curriculum for children.
• Follow the activity planner of Daycare.
• Ensuring children transition to different activities and learning spaces smoothly. Adapt lessons to children's interests and learning styles.
• Adapt to children's moods and interests to keep them engaged.
• Help new children to settle swiftly following in the settling policy.
• Lead children to outdoor and indoor area play.
• Use creative ways of storytelling, play based learning, role play etc for learning
• Demonstrate kindness, patience, and active listening.
• Incorporate movement, music, and sensory activities.
• Foster confidence in children by planning hands-on and child led activities.
• Guide children with gentle expectations for correcting behaviour.
• Children coming from afterschool or children transitioning from morning to daycare should blend smoothly by helping in changing uniform, meals and transitioning them to sleep or daycare activities.
• Aid older daycare children incase of homework supervision.
• Prepare for special days and events as per the annual calendar.
• Provide attentive and nurturing care to children.

Communication with parents

• Provide an update of each child's day, including meals, naps, and activities daily.
• Use a parent communication app.
• Always be updated with child's meal, care, nap, schedule requirements.
• Encourage parent Involvement in events and school initiatives.
• 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.

Health & safety compliance

• Carrying out risk assessment for classrooms and keeping office informed for corrective measures.
• Ensuring children are always in ratio of adult supervision.
• Child should always be attended by an adult.
• Always be informed about allergies and illness of the child and display information as necessary for other team members who are responsible for care.
• 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 is kept odour free.
• Ensuring children are served fresh and hygienic meals.
• Children are provided with clean dairy products and bottles for feeding.
• Children diapering and toileting needs attended promptly. Ensuring facilities are cleaned and maintained by nannies.

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:

• Graduation in any discipline.
• Degree in Early Childhood Education (preferred).
• First Aid and CPR Certification (optional)

Work Experience:

• Minimum 1-2 years of experience in a childcare care setting with young people.

Skills:

• Patient, nurturing and love for working with children.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Mobile and social media savvy.
• Confident in using parent app.
• Be able to work on MS-office with basic skills for developing planner and schedules.
• Creativity and ability to prepare and design display boards and decorations.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.

Additional Information:

• Distance to workplace: 1 to 8 km.
• Flexibility: Ability to adapt to changing schedules and needs of children.
• Willing to move between different age groups of children ranging from infants to 10 years.
• Team Player: Work collaboratively with other teachers and staff.
• Physical Stamina: Ability to actively engage with children throughout the day.
• Maintain high discipline for attendance and timeliness.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: ₹15, ₹20,000.00 per month

Experience:

• total work: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: In person