Lead Teacher - Early Childhood Educator

Job description

About the Work Unit: Child & Family Center offers quality early childhood education and care for the children of Vanderbilt Faculty, staff, and students. The program serves children age infants (6 weeks) to five years old. The Centers are licensed by the Tennessee Department of Education. For more information about VU's Child & Family Centers, click here: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/child-family-center/child-care-center/ Duties and Responsibilities: Child Development: Curriculum for young children includes personal-care routines, schedules, environments, and interactions that meet children’s individual needs and reflect diverse perspectives and interests. Developmentally appropriate environments promote exploration, discovery, learning, health, and safety for all children in all domains. Supportive of children’s feelings, perceptions, behaviors, and interactions, and seeks to understand them Values play as essential to a young child’s development and learning. Values the cultivation of self-care and personal safety skills and judgment in children, and the inclusion of children and families as active participants in learning about, health, safety, and nutrition. Child Care Operations:...