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Location and Job Title:

Pre-K Assistant Teacher
Asheville JCC
236 Charlotte St
Asheville, NC 28801

Principal Responsibilities:

Classification: Full-time, 40 hours/week, Monday-Friday

Pay rate: $16-17/hr, depending on experience and credentials, with benefits

• Full-time employees benefits include:
• Paid sick, vacation, personal days
• Paid holidays
• JCC pool membership
• Tuition discount for enrolled children

The JCC values professional development and growth for our early childhood professionals. We will help you secure tuition scholarship for accredited college courses in Early Childhood Education.

Position Summary: Shalom Children's Center is a 5-star licensed early childhood education center. A teacher, as part of the classroom teaching team of three teachers, assists in implementing an emotionally responsive, developmentally appropriate play-based classroom of 16 children ages 4-5.

Principal Responsibilities

• Collaborating with the lead teacher in lesson planning based on an emergent curriculum
• Documenting children's developmental progress and interests
• Building supportive relationships with families
• Collaborating with the age-group POD team using a strengths-based approach.

Minimum Qualifications:

Qualifications:

• NC Qualifying letter (criminal background check)
• AA or BA in related field, including ECE credential or equivalency
• At least 1 year of experience working with children in an early childhood setting
• Excellent verbal communication skills
• Ability to physically lift and care for a child less than 40 lbs
• Experience and knowledge of emergent inquiry or Reggio-inspired approach preferred

Salary:

$25,000 - $35,000

Agency Information:

At the Asheville JCC, all are welcome to share in Jewish traditions, values and culture. The AJCC has been the home for Jewish life in Western North Carolina since 1940, and today we continue to be a vibrant and diverse community of people. The Asheville JCC strengthens Jewish identity, celebrates Jewish culture and builds community through a wide variety of programs for people from all backgrounds, at every stage of life.