Job Description
Summary Discover the Joy of Working with our Energetic Explorers (1-2 Years)! Working with toddlers is an exciting and rewarding role in early childhood education. At this stage, children are curious explorers—full of energy, determination, and wonder. As an Energetic Explorer's teacher, you’ll have the opportunity to:
- Witness Rapid Growth – From first words to running feet, toddlers are constantly learning new skills. Every day brings amazing progress you’ll help to guide.
- Encourage Independence – Support children as they begin to feed themselves, make choices, and express their personalities—key steps toward confidence and self-awareness.
- Foster Language and Social Skills – Be a part of those magical moments when toddlers first put words together, share with a friend, or engage in simple group play.
- Create Playful Learning – Toddlers learn best through play, and you’ll design engaging experiences that spark curiosity, creativity, and problem-solving.
- Build Lasting Bonds – Form warm relationships with children and their families, creating a supportive community where each child feels safe, loved, and encouraged.
- Grow Professionally – Gain expertise in guiding early behavior, supporting emerging communication, and facilitating hands-on discovery.
If you’re looking for a career that is active, joyful, and full of opportunities to inspire growth, working with toddlers is the perfect fit.
Duties As an Energetic Explorer’s Teacher, you will: - Provide responsive, individualized care to toddlers (12 months – 24 months).
- Plan developmentally appropriate, individual and group activities to actively engage children and encourage social, cognitive and emotional growth.
- Support our philosophy by learning how to implement a play-based, loose parts approach
- Create a warm, safe, and stimulating environment where every child feels secure and thrives.
- Ensure a healthy classroom environment – including maintaining appropriate hygiene and cleanliness standards and safety and security of children.
- Partner with families to ensure continuity of care and celebrate developmental milestones.
- Collaborate with colleagues to uphold best practices in early childhood education.
Requirements Our early care educators are expected to be - dependable and able to maintain a consistent schedule.
- committed to professional growth, best practices and play-based learning.
- warm, nurturing, and patient.
- able to work collaboratively with a team of educators and communicate effectively with families.
- excited to participate in the growth and development of the early learners they encounter every day.
- able to take frequent walks, use hands and fingers, handle objects, tools or controls, talk to and hear voices at many levels. May also be required to kneel, bend, squat or crawl.
- able to see up close and up to a certain distance, to see colors, have peripheral vision and depth perception.
Nice To Haves But Not Required - Previous experience working with infants in a childcare, preschool, or nanny setting.
- CDA (Infant/Toddler) or progress toward certification preferred; willingness to pursue professional development required.
Benefits Why Join Our Team?- Supportive, mission-driven environment that values the development of both children and educators.
- Ongoing educator and site-specific professional development.
- Ongoing real-time classroom support via Community Coordinated Child Care personnel we contract to have in house once per week.
- Dedicated in-house educator to work with classroom teachers to implement our curriculum and play-based philosophy.
- Opportunities for career advancement in early care and education.
- A matching retirement plan, PTO accrual based on hours worked, flexible scheduling, and other benefits.
- Raises based on merit.
- Education bonus up to $1750.00 for completion of certifications or degrees.
- Successful probationary period bonus of $200.00 or equivalent PTO added to your bank.
About Us Providence Childcare & Preschool is a family-owned early learning center that has been serving children and families since 1999. Located on a beautiful 2.5-acre campus, we provide a warm, play-based environment inside and outside where children learn best through exploration, creativity, and meaningful experiences facilitated by our educators. We believe children learn best when they are free to explore, and we extend that same philosophy to our teachers by investing in their professional growth and development. At Providence, we are committed to fostering a community where children, families, and teachers thrive together.
Job Tags
Full time, Contract work, Flexible hours, 1 day per week,