Job Title:  Floater Associate Teacher

Location: Fairwood, all sites help as needed

Reports To: Site Supervisor

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt, Full time

Job Purpose:

The Floater Teacher is responsible for providing essential, flexible support to the Master Teachers and classroom teams across all age groups (infant, toddler, preschool, and school-age) at California Young World, Inc. This position ensures continuous, high-quality care and supervision for all children by covering teacher breaks, absences, and staffing gaps. The Floater Teacher assists with classroom organization, setup, cleaning, and actively engages with children, providing positive behavior support. 

Duties and Responsibilities:

Individual Responsibilities:

• Support the implementation of curriculum and assessments under the direction of the Master Teacher or Site Director.
• Comply with California Department of Education (CDE), Community Care Licensing (Title 22), and agency policies and procedures.
• Classroom Coverage and Support: Provide continuous supervision and care for all children in assigned classrooms during teacher breaks, planning time, or absences, ensuring legal teacher-to-child ratios are maintained.
• Health and Safety: Conduct daily health inspections as necessary and ensure the maintenance of a safe, organized, clean, and inviting classroom environment.
• Routine Care: Assist children with self-help skills, toileting, and diaper changing as needed, modeling respectful and responsive caregiving practices.
• Curriculum Support: Assist classroom teams with general preparation and implementation of daily activities, ensuring practices align with agency teaching models (e.g., PITC, The Teaching Pyramid, The Creative Curriculum, CDE Foundations/Frameworks).
• Data Collection (As Directed): Collect anecdotal data, assist with screenings (ASQ-3/ASQ:SE), and support the DRDP (Desired Results Developmental Profile) process as directed by the Master Teacher or Site Director for children across various primary care groups.
• Meal Service: Encourage and support Family Meal Service for all meals and snacks in the assigned classroom.
• Communication: Maintain professional and positive communication with classroom teams, Master Teachers, Site Director, and parents, providing positive daily feedback about the child’s day as appropriate.
• Team Collaboration: Attend and participate in team meetings as required to discuss individual child plans, classroom routines, and overall program support.
• Professional Representation: Represent CYW in a professional manner at all times and encourage parents to participate in PAC (Parent Advisory Committee) sponsored activities.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Working Conditions:

• Predominant Condition: 
  • The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.
• Occasional Conditions:
  • The worker is subject to outside environmental conditions: No effective protection from weather.

Skills and Qualifications:

•  Extensive knowledge of early childhood development principles and developmentally appropriate educational practices.
• Enthusiastic personality that will engage preschool and elementary age children.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with adults and children.
• Ability to educate with age-appropriate language and teaching methods.
• Ability to collaborate and communicate with teachers, support staff, parents, and students in a positive and constructive way.
  • Bilingual and Bi-literate strongly preferred
• Ability to exercise or act with patience, optimism, compassion, enthusiasm, and empathy.
• Mediation skills for resolving conflicts between children.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to plan, manage, and evaluate curriculum.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software as required for recordkeeping and documentation.
• Maintain a valid California Criminal Record Clearance.
• Negative TB skin test or Clear Chest X-ray required.

Education

• Associates degree in Early Childhood Development preferred; 12 ECE units are required.

Experience

• Minimum of one year of experience working in a licensed child development setting required.
• Certification/Licensure
  • Current valid California Child Development Teacher Permit, preferred, but can apply for it while working.
  • Current valid EMSA First Aide and child/infant CPR certification.

Physical Requirements:

• Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication of parts at distances close to the eyes.
• The worker is required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned (i.e., custodial, food services, general labor, etc.) or to make general observations of facilities or structures (i.e., security guard, inspection, etc.).
• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. This factor is important if the amount and kind of climbing required exceeds that required for ordinary locomotion. 
• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery or erratically moving surfaces. This factor is important if the amount and kind of balancing the amount and kind of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium. 
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires full use of the lower extremities and back muscles. 
• Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees. 
• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine. 
• Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet. 
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction. 
• Standing: Remaining upright on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time. 
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another. 
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles. 
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling. 
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm. 
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. 
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
• Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.