Select the answer that best describes your work experience helping children to meet their developmental and emotional needs by encouraging children to: think and solve problems, express their feelings and handle them appropriately, develop positive self esteem and/or confidence, fostering development of independent skills and responsibilities, prompting children to get along cooperatively with others; preparing and implementing age and developmentally appropriate activities such as fine arts, gross motor, fine motor, health and safety, nutrition, science, social studies, self-awareness, language, group time; preparing developmental progress reports of children; reviewing the developmental stage of each child with appropriate expectations. Working Position Title Assistant Teacher (34846) Classification Child Development Associate Position Number 00034846 Open Date 10/23/2026 Close Date 11/06/2026 Priority Review Date Employee Class Staff Full-Time/Part Time Full-Time FTE 1.00 Position Status Regular FLSA Non-Exempt Job code 0497 Union Representation Union Union Code AFC - AFSCME C, Local #1890 Unit/Department Child Development & Family Ct College/Unit College-Hlth & Human Sci Dean Division Academic Division Location CC 084 Link to Department Website or Custom Search Page https://www.chhs.niu.edu/child-center/about/index.shtml .