Lab Nursery School Educator (Substitute)

About Dutchess Community College:

Located in the heart of New York's beautiful and historic mid-Hudson Valley, just 90 minutes north of New York City, Dutchess Community College (DCC) is one of 64 colleges within the State University of New York, the largest comprehensive public higher education system in the country.

DCC's strategic direction is guided by four lenses through which we view our work: Students. Learning. Community. Growth. We are committed to respecting individuality, embracing diversity, being "student-ready," and partnering with and serving our community inclusively. The College welcomes and seeks to grow a pool of prospective employees who share and are eager to support the institution's core values: Excellence. Collaboration. Engagement. Equity. Innovation.

The June Roush Pierson Laboratory Nursery School at DCC has been providing enriching and engaging experiences for children since 1963.

The program enrolls three- to five-year-old children from the campus and surrounding community in its five-morning program, housed in two bright, airy classrooms on the DCC main campus. Each classroom is staffed by an experienced master teacher and part time faculty member from the college's Early Childhood and Elementary Education Program.

The play-based curriculum is carefully planned to support children's growth and development, offering a rich variety of art, sensory, literacy, math, science, and music activities, in addition to block building, dramatic play, and outdoor play. There is an emphasis on developing relationships with others, as master teachers, fieldwork students, and children engage in meaningful conversations and participate in hands-on learning experiences through play.

Job Description:

The Substitute Lab Nursery Educator must:

• be a master teacher with young children who is able to model the highest quality teaching behaviors, language, guidance techniques, parent relations, curriculum development/planning, assessment techniques and environmental set up (environment as the second teacher) for students in ECH 206, ECH 108 and ECH 207 who work directly in the classroom.
• be present in the classroom from 8:00am-1:00pm in order to prepare the classroom, meet with fieldwork students from 8:00am-9:00am, as well as clean the classroom and meet with fieldwork students from 12:00pm-1:00pm
• be able, with no other professional staff in the room, mentor, guide, and direct DCC freshmen and sophomore ECH/EED students
• follow substitute plans left by the Master Teacher they are substituting for
• be able to work as a mentor/teacher to the DCC students during the unofficial "seminar" hours as the room is set up and cleaned up each day. This includes explaining the set-up and activities of the day, how those activities will promote learning in the group as a whole and with individual children, eliciting student observations about the children and guiding reflections about the children as she transfers responsibility to the sophomores who will be expected to "run" the room during the last weeks of the semester

Requirements:

• Have knowledge of developmentally appropriate practice.
• Possess at least 3 years of experience working with children at the preschool level.
• Possess at least an A.A.S in Early Childhood Education with knowledge.
• Have experience working with college students.

Additional Information:

The Substitute Lab Nursery School Educator is a part-time temporary position. The work schedule for this position is on an as-needed basis at 6 hours per day not to exceed 30 hours per week.

The hourly rate for this position is $35.41.

Academic support positions are covered by a collective bargaining agreement between Dutchess Community College and Dutchess United Educators (DUE).

Employment will require a criminal background screening.

DCC is an AA/EOE employer. Dutchess Community College (College) as part of The State University of New York, in its continuing effort to seek equity in education and employment, and in support of federal and state anti-discrimination legislation, has adopted a policy to provide an educational and employment environment free from unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, familial status, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, domestic violence victim status, or criminal conviction.

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