Teacher Assistant - Early Learning

About The Centers 

The Centers fights for equity by healing, teaching, and inspiring individuals and families to reach their full potential. We provide health, family, and workforce services at 6 locations throughout Greater Cleveland, creating life-changing solutions for people to lead healthier and more successful lives. 

Our Early Learning Centers and programs provides high-quality care for children during the critical first 2,000 days of life by operating seven high-quality early learning centers, serving children birth through five years old, in Cleveland and the inner-ring suburbs. Because of our high standards, all sites achieved a 5-Star rating on the Step-Up-To-Quality Rating and been recognized and selected to be part of Universal Prekindergarten (UPK) and PRE4CLE. 

We strive to be an equitable, anti-racist, and service-oriented workplace that pioneers and co-creates solutions while fostering an inclusive community where our team members thrive.  

Wellbeing and Benefits 

Providing quality benefits to our staff is important to us. Just as important is our staff’s well-being. That’s why we offer a number of choices from medical to dental to vision plans to meet the different needs of our staff. 

Choice of medical and dental plans , Health Savings Account , Flexible Spending Account for Health and Dependent Care , Vision , Support for continuing education and credential renewal , Life Insurance, Retirement Savings (401k) with a company contribution , Mental Health Support, Employee Assistance Program , Calm Subscription, Short- and Long-term Disability.

Job Summary  

Designs, develops, and implements developmentally appropriate programs and lesson plans for children in their care. Will utilize High Scope approaches to develop content and employ multiple teaching strategies to accommodate learning differences such as, those with Individual Education Plans (IEP) or Individual Family Service Plans (IFSP). 

Essential Job & Responsibilities   

• Help maintain exciting well-equipped learning environments to foster exploration.   
• Participate in a cooperative team of teachers  
• Cultivate optimal growth and development through High Scope Curriculum activities in both the indoor and outdoor environment.   
• Promote personalized planning with high levels of teacher-child interactions under the direction of a supervisor.   
• As a teaching team, help design, develop, and implement developmentally appropriate activity plans for children based on assessment and screening data.   
• Be a team member in engaging parents through caring, meaningful, and professional relationships to enhance child(ren)’s development.   

Job Qualifications   

• CDA or Associate’s degree in Early Childhood Education or related field.
• CPR/First Aid, Communicable Disease, Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention within 90 days of hire (training provided by The Centers). 
• Some entry-level experience in a classroom setting required; early childhood focus preferred. 
• Occasional evening hours may be required. 
• No record of child abuse or moral turpitude as determined by background check based on fingerprints. 

Core Competencies 

• Approachability 
• Client Focus 
• Continuous Learning 
• Contributes to Team Performance 
• Energy and Enthusiasm 
• Flexible/Adaptive 
• Focus Upon Quality 
• Planning and Prioritizing 
• Work Standards 
• Technical Acumen