The posting
The Infant Teacher is responsible for delivering lessons across different developmental stages, preparing learning resources and materials, ensuring well-being and safety of the infants, take responsibility for their daily routines and contributing to centre and parent partnership activities and events.
Job Responsibilities
1) Teaching & Learning
• Deliver age-appropriate experiences for infant across different developmental stages, demonstrating a variety of teaching techniques according to curriculum guidelines.
• Conduct pre-language and literacy programmes.
• Plan and prepare developmentally age-appropriate learning experiences, resources and materials for infants across different developmental stages.
• Complete experience plan evaluation to self-reflect if the experience conducted has been effective and learning objectives have been met.
• Participate in setting up and up-keeping of integrated learning spaces (eg. Math, Science, English, Chinese, Art & Craft) to facilitate infant's learning.
• Source for suitable material for display at school and update it according to focus on teaching content and infant's interest.
• Monitor the development of the infant daily and update infant’s developmental profile every 3 months.
• Conduct Parent-Teacher conference (PTC).
2) Well-being of Children
• Ensure the well-being and safety of the infant in all domains.
• Interact with infants in a respectful, responsive and reciprocate manner.
• Be responsible and facilitate the conduct of daily care routine for the infant which includes meal time, milk feeds, baths, diaper changing, temperature check and administering medicine.
3) Engaging Parents & Community
• Work in partnership with parents and community in the holistic development of their infant.
• Plan and prepare termly newsletter.
• Send daily updates on routines and experiences.
• Communicate with parents through software app and encourage parents' involvement in centre events or class experiences.
Other responsibilities
Centre Activities and Events
• Contribute actively in centre events and activities eg. Planning of field trip.
• Carry out class administration duties as and when necessary.
• To assist in ad-hoc projects/committees as and when required by the Principal and Assistant Director.
• To perform other duties as directed by the Director/CEO.
The above activities are no means exhaustive and are subject to amendment whenever is needed.
Minimum Education / Qualifications
• Higher Certificate in Infant Care/Advanced Certificate in Early Years and above
• 5 credits in English and Mother Tongue in GCE 'O' Levels
Minimum Years of Relevant Experience:
• 0 to 2 years of working experience in early childhood setting
Knowledge/Skills
• Adequate knowledge of current early childhood care and education development theories, research and practices
• Good communication and classroom management skills
Attributes (Functional or leadership competencies)
• Creative and passionate in inclusive preschool education
• Enjoys working with young children and able to work well with families



