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

Job 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

Work Location: In person