Early Childhood Educator

**Job Overview** The Early Childhood Educator is responsible for providing a safe, educationally stimulating and nurturing environment for children at the AVANCE\-Austin service sites and teaching developmentally appropriate concepts and skills to young children. **Job Responsibilities** * Provide developmentally appropriate learning experiences for young children, with a focus on pre\-literacy and math skills leading to enhanced cognitive development. * Creates and prepares activities according to lesson plans and leads the preparation of materials. * Follows daily schedule of children’s activities and lesson plans that meet children’s needs and interests * Maintains theme areas in the classroom. * Maintaining accurate, complete and correct records of children such as class attendance, health records and injury reports. * Assures that parents sign\-in all children on attendance sheet. * Maintains a healthy, safe, stimulating and attractive learning environment for the young children. * Regulates children in developing eating, resting and toileting skills. * Change diapers when needed and ensure each child’s personal hygiene by changing clothing when necessary, and teaching them hand washing skills. * Labels all children belongings and makes sure parent pick up all belongings at the end of the session. * Conducts and documents child assessment processes. (Administering of Brigance). * Attends staff meetings, workshops and trainings as scheduled by supervisor. * Maintains proper hygiene in the children and all equipment and space used for care of children. * Protects all children from physical punishment or verbal abuse by anyone in any program activity, and immediately reports any such incident to the center director or person in charge. * Participates in recruitment activities by tabling at community events, canvassing neighborhoods and distributing flyers at targeted locations. * Participates in organizing and planning for special events, ex. Holiday Party, Di