Infant Lead Teacher - Early Childhood Education
Location: The Learning Experience - Upper West Side, New York, NY
Pay: $20-$24 per hour, based on experience and qualifications
Schedule: Full-Time, Monday-Friday
The Learning Experience - Upper West Side is seeking a nurturing and experienced Infant Lead Teacher to join our early childhood education team.
Our Infant Lead Teacher creates a warm, responsive classroom where babies feel safe, secure, and loved while reaching important developmental milestones. We're looking for an educator who understands that infant care is about much more than routines - it's about building trusting relationships, encouraging exploration, and creating meaningful learning experiences from the very beginning.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead daily routines and learning experiences in an Infant classroom
- Provide responsive, individualized care based on each infant's needs and schedule
- Support feeding, diapering, sleep, tummy time, and other daily care routines
- Create age-appropriate sensory, movement, language, music, and early learning experiences
- Support cognitive, physical, language, and social-emotional development
- Observe developmental progress and maintain required classroom documentation
- Maintain consistent communication and build trusting relationships with families
- Guide and collaborate with Assistant Teachers and classroom support staff
- Maintain a clean, safe, organized, and nurturing classroom
- Follow applicable New York City childcare health, safety, and licensing requirements
Qualifications
- Associate's degree in Early Childhood Education required
- Previous professional infant classroom or early childhood education experience strongly preferred
- Lead Teacher or classroom leadership experience preferred
- Strong understanding of infant development and responsive caregiving
- Excellent communication, organization, and relationship-building skills
- Patient, nurturing, dependable, and team-oriented
- Must meet applicable New York City childcare requirements
What We Offer
- Competitive pay of $20-$24 per hour, based on experience and qualifications
- Consistent full-time Monday-Friday schedule
- Paid training and professional development
- Employee childcare discount
- Supportive leadership and collaborative teaching environment
- Opportunities for professional growth and advancement
Apply today to join The Learning Experience - Upper West Side and help give our youngest learners a nurturing, engaging, and joyful start to their early learning journey.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex,
national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other
characteristic protected by law.
The Learning Experience
At The Learning Experience, we make early education joyful, engaging and fun so children are happy to learn, play and grow.
Our curriculum focuses on the six ages and stages of early childhood development and engages children in hands-on learning activities that encourage them to explore and solve problems at their own rate of development. This forms a foundation for kids to Learn, Play and Grow under the care of our nurturing teachers and staff.
At TLE®, we’ve created a full cast of characters that become our little learners’ educators, partners and friends through their preschool education journey. Each character has a unique personality and area of interest and brings learning to life by allowing children to explore the world through fun and imagination.
This franchise is independently owned and operated by a franchisee. Your application will go directly to the franchisee, and all hiring decisions will be made by the management of this franchisee. All inquiries about employment at this franchisee should be made directly to the franchise location, and not to The Learning Experience Corporate.