Assistant Teacher for 2-Year-Old Feeling Friends Classroom
Gainesville Empowerment Zone Family Learning Center
Assistant Teacher for 2-Year-Old Feeling Friends Classroom
Full Time • Gainesville Empowerment Zone Family Learning Center
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Big feelings. Big discoveries. Big personalities.
Two-year-olds are learning everything, how to use their words, wait for a turn, make a friend, do it themselves, and navigate some very big feelings in very little bodies.
Our Feeling Friends need an experienced Assistant Teacher who loves this wonderfully busy stage of childhood and knows how to bring patience, energy, structure, and a little humor along for the ride.
At Gainesville Empowerment Zone Family Learning Center, we're looking for someone who doesn't just supervise a classroom. We want an educator who gets down on the floor, joins the play, talks with children, notices what needs to be done, and works side-by-side with the Lead Teacher to keep a large, active classroom learning and moving forward.
Your Role
You'll be an active teaching partner throughout the day by helping create a classroom where children feel safe enough to explore, supported as they build independence, and understood as they learn to manage emotions and relationships.
You'll:
- Engage children through play, books, music, movement, conversation, and hands-on learning
- Support language, social-emotional development, and growing independence
- Help children navigate big feelings using positive, developmentally appropriate guidance
- Assist with learning activities, classroom routines, transitions, meals, toileting, and rest time
- Maintain active supervision and a safe, clean, organized classroom
- Observe children's development and support classroom documentation
- Build warm, professional relationships with children and families
- Work as a true partner with the Lead Teacher- seeing what needs to happen and jumping in
What You'll Bring
Required
- Experience working in an active 2-year-old classroom in a licensed early childhood setting
- Florida DCF 40-hour childcare training completed
- Current required childcare certifications
- Understanding of toddler development and developmentally appropriate practice
- Strong teamwork, communication, and reliability
- The energy and physical ability to be actively involved throughout the day
Preferred
- CDA, Florida Staff Credential, or related early childhood credential
- Current CPR and First Aid certification
- Experience with developmentally appropriate curriculum and child assessment
Who Thrives with the Feeling Friends?
Someone who knows that "Mine!", "No!", "I do it!", tears, giggles, hugs, and a sudden urgent need for the exact same toy can all happen within five minutes.
You stay calm. You help children find words. You redirect without shaming. You celebrate independence while knowing when a child still needs help.
And when the room gets busy, you don't wait for someone to hand you a task, you look around, see what your teaching partner and children need, and get moving.
Why GEZFLC?
We're building a community where children are known, families are valued, and educators work together to create meaningful early learning experiences.
If you genuinely enjoy two-year-olds and believe their big feelings, growing independence, and endless curiosity make this age more interesting, not more difficult, we'd love to meet you.
Come help our Feeling Friends learn what they're capable of.
We Grow Greatness.
Compensation: $15.50 - $17.00 per hour
ABOUT US
EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES 4 ALL
Gainesville for All was created in 2016 with the help of the Gainesville Sun and the Community Foundation of North Central Florida to seek systemic solutions to problems of race and poverty in the region.
It has had successes in each of its areas of focus, which include education, criminal justice, health and transportation and family support. In the spring of 2021 it played a significant role in winning approval by the city and county of its 2017 recommendation for free RTS fares for riders under age 18 and over age 65.
OUR MISSION
Gainesville For All was formed to address racial and economic inequities that hurt people and hinder our community from achieving its best potential. It is an initiative of The Gainesville Sun in partnership with the Community Foundation of North Central Florida.
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