Foundation Phase Teacher

Responsibilities:

• Assimilate arriving children to the school environment by greeting them, helping them remove outerwear, and selecting activities of interest to them.
• Teach basic skills such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills. Teach the curriculum given by the school administration.
• Provide various materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.
• Create activities that are fun, educational, and suitable for the children.
• Organize and lead activities that promote physical, mental, and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, and field trips.
• Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health. Fill in reports at the end of the term.
• Teach proper eating habits and personal hygiene.
• Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order.
• Oversee the care of children's basic needs, such as feeding, dressing, and changing their diapers.
• Ensure children play safely indoors and outdoors.
• Ensure the well-being of all students in the class.
• Develop and maintain a constructive and ongoing rapport with children and parents.
• Identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems, and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists.
• Manage day-to-day classroom activities and other events.
• Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and needs, determine their priorities for their children, and suggest ways that they can promote learning and development, by administration requests.
• Deliver reports on potential concerns about students to the administration as needed.
• Collaborate with the administration to ensure that the school fosters an environment that is inviting and nurturing for every child.
• Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students.
• Oversee other nursery teachers’ performance and provide recommendations or guidelines to help improve performance.
• Perform any other duty allocated by the administration from time to time.