About the role
Are you passionate about shaping brighter futures for children and families? Join our Headstart teaching team as a Registered Early Childhood Educator (RECE)!
In this role, you’ll:
- Create a safe, caring, and engaging environment for children ages 0–5.
- Foster socio-emotional growth through play-based, child-centered learning.
- Collaborate with a supportive team guided by attachment theory and best practices in Early Years care.
What you bring: RECE designation, knowledge of the CCEYA, teamwork skills, and a heart for making a difference.
You must have the ablility to work in accordance to all MEDU / Public Health directives.
Program-Related Activities
- Works with the team of RECEs to provide high quality care that reflect best practices and excellence in Early Years child-centered care.
- Ensures program practices reflect program philosophy and core elements of Ontario’s Pedagogy for the Early Years, How Does Learning Happen?
- Works respectfully and responsively with children and their families and caregivers
- Responds to children’s needs in a manner that support positive relationships and social emotional growth, using attachment theory principles.
- Provides a stimulating learning environment for groups of infants, toddlers, and/or pre-schoolers, in alignment with ELECT and How Does learning Happen? principles.
- Plans and implements developmentally-appropriate curriculum for circle groups of children.
- Completes regular scheduled assessments and appropriate screening for every child to determine areas of enhanced support needs.
- Identifies children with special needs or learning challenges and makes appropriate referrals in consultation with the Headstart Team (e.g. to speech-language pathologist and family support community worker) and implements any recommendations by the specialist in consultation with the parents.
- Informally assesses each child’s physical, social, emotional and cognitive and language learning needs and plans activities to address both group and individual needs.
- Keeps parents informed of their child’s progress and maintains records of contacts.
- Works in accordance with the CCEYA.
- Prepares classroom for activities according to program plan and children’s developmental needs.
- Consults with collaborative agencies in addressing the needs of the child and family.
- Acts as a role model in interactions with parents/caregivers and children.
About the role
Are you passionate about shaping brighter futures for children and families? Join our Headstart teaching team as a Registered Early Childhood Educator (RECE)!
In this role, you’ll:
- Create a safe, caring, and engaging environment for children ages 0–5.
- Foster socio-emotional growth through play-based, child-centered learning.
- Collaborate with a supportive team guided by attachment theory and best practices in Early Years care.
What you bring: RECE designation, knowledge of the CCEYA, teamwork skills, and a heart for making a difference.
You must have the ablility to work in accordance to all MEDU / Public Health directives.
Program-Related Activities
- Works with the team of RECEs to provide high quality care that reflect best practices and excellence in Early Years child-centered care.
- Ensures program practices reflect program philosophy and core elements of Ontario’s Pedagogy for the Early Years, How Does Learning Happen?
- Works respectfully and responsively with children and their families and caregivers
- Responds to children’s needs in a manner that support positive relationships and social emotional growth, using attachment theory principles.
- Provides a stimulating learning environment for groups of infants, toddlers, and/or pre-schoolers, in alignment with ELECT and How Does learning Happen? principles.
- Plans and implements developmentally-appropriate curriculum for circle groups of children.
- Completes regular scheduled assessments and appropriate screening for every child to determine areas of enhanced support needs.
- Identifies children with special needs or learning challenges and makes appropriate referrals in consultation with the Headstart Team (e.g. to speech-language pathologist and family support community worker) and implements any recommendations by the specialist in consultation with the parents.
- Informally assesses each child’s physical, social, emotional and cognitive and language learning needs and plans activities to address both group and individual needs.
- Keeps parents informed of their child’s progress and maintains records of contacts.
- Works in accordance with the CCEYA.
- Prepares classroom for activities according to program plan and children’s developmental needs.
- Consults with collaborative agencies in addressing the needs of the child and family.
- Acts as a role model in interactions with parents/caregivers and children.