Lead Teacher- Head Start Preschool

Utah Community Action in Salt Lake City, UT is seeking to hire a Lead Teacher for our Head Start preschool to supervise and ensure the safety of the children in our program. The Lead Teacher completes case management for each student’s family, creates lesson plans, and assists children in achieving their goals. This preschool teaching position is full-time during the school year (August-May) with the summer off!  

 

Our Lead Teacher earns a competitive wage of $18.21-$20.00/hour based on experience and education. We also offer generous benefits year-round including a 401k plan with 5% match, short and long-term disability, sick leave, paid time off (PTO), and holidays off. Are you looking for a rewarding teaching career where you can make a difference in the lives of preschool children? Have you been looking for a teaching job where you will enjoy coming to work every day? If so, apply today!

 

 

Founded in 1965, Utah Community Action is a nationally recognized provider of comprehensive services for income-eligible families. Our six core programs—Head Start, Adult Education, Case Management & Housing, Nutrition, HEAT, and Weatherization—address barriers to self-sufficiency to empower individuals, strengthen families, and build communities. We are committed to ending poverty and improving the lives of those living in our community.

 

The culture here at Utah Community Action is based on our agency values of appreciation, compassion, integrity, respect, and trust. Our management team is well-trained and maintains an open-door policy so that our employees can ask questions and easily solve problems. We also offer competitive compensation, excellent benefits, and a supportive work environment.

 

 

As the Lead Teacher, you come to work each day excited and ready to make a difference in children’s lives. Working cooperatively with another teacher, you teach a class of 17 children. You develop weekly lesson plans to ignite the curiosity and growth of the children in our preschool. Additionally, you provide preventative health screenings to children including vision, hearing, and growth assessments. You track each child’s growth through observations, portfolio documentation, developmental checklist, and assessment data.

 

As a Head Start teacher, you not only provide an educational opportunity to children, but you work with the whole family to help them become more self-sufficient. Each year you conduct two home visits and two parent-teacher conferences. Because you are working with low-income families, you have been trained to provide referrals to community resources that families may need such as food stamps, food banks, health resources, etc.

 

The children are in the classroom Monday-Thursday for 3.5 hours, and the rest of your day is spent on case management, case notes, meeting with families, lesson planning, and collecting physical and dental exams for the children in your class. On Fridays, you participate in training or completing work for the classroom. While you have challenging moments, most of your time is spent having a lot of fun. Since you love interacting with children, you can definitely say that you get paid to do what you love.

 

●      Bachelor’s degree in early childhood education, family and consumer studies, or a related field

●      Basic computer skills

 

Bilingual in English/Spanish is preferred, but not required. Previous Head Start teaching experience is a plus! Are you able to work well independently and as part of a team? Do you have strong interpersonal, organizational, and time management skills? Are you detail-oriented? Can you supervise, guide, and mentor assistant teachers? If so, you may be perfect for this teaching position!

 

 

The schedule is August through May, Monday-Friday from 7:45am to 4:15pm.

 

 

If you would like to be a Lead Teacher at our Head Start preschool, apply today. We look forward to meeting you!