Duties: To facilitate the social, emotional, mental, and physical development of children. To be a team member in developing learning centers and lesson plans that focus on childen's individual needs.
Organize the classroom environment and plan hands on activities to promote language, social emotional development, fine motor, gross motor, cognitive, and self-help development.
Relate to high risk families and their children. Develop communication skills to ensure appropriate quality services to parents and staff.
AA or BA in Early Childhood
Experience working in a preschool setting
TB Test
Background check
Bending, lifting, stooping, squatting
Model physical activities for children such as running, hopping, jumping, skipping, galloping, throwing and catching
Olathe Head Start is a federally funded pre-school program for low income children and families. The program offers copmperhensive services that includes early childhood preschool, mental health services, health services, nutrition, and family engagement. Olathe Head Start serves 180 children in southern Johnson County including the following school districts: Olathe, Spring Hill, Gardner/Edgerton, and Blue Valley. The Olathe School District is the recipient of the Head Start grant.
