Early Learning State Office Teacher (2024-05042)

This position is responsible for providing support to Hawaii Department of Education schools who offer pre-kindergarten classrooms on their campuses. This position provides professional learning support and assistance that lead to improvements in the knowledge, skills, practices and dispositions of pre-kindergarten teachers and educational assistants that will result in high quality learning opportunities for children and families. 

- Develop and provide professional learning experiences within a specific area of inquiry and related to the areas of teacher role, child development and learning, quality interactions, curriculum, instruction, assessment, and family engagement: Using evidence based practices consistent with the principles of adult learning structured to promote connections between research, theory and practice 
- Responsive to each learner's background, experiences, strengths and needs and within the context of his/her role, professional goals and school's and community culture and to facilitate the development of relationship based learning and support communities among teachers (professional learning communities) 
- Provide or facilitate access to early childhood professional resources and information for teaching staff based on professional growth plans and teacher's inquiry.
- Provide or facilitate access to early childhood resources and information for administrators upon request. 
- Facilitate communication and coordination between schools and prekindergarten program's office and act as a liaison as needed. 
- Work collaboratively with team to establish goals for the prekindergarten professional learning support program; develop plans for implementation of program; and evaluate program.
- Coordinate work with colleagues. 
- Prepare reports as required. 
- Engage in professional learning related to early childhood education and adult learning in order to increase one's own knowledge base and skill set. 
- Participate in professional learning community, engaging in collective inquiry and cooperative learning with peers. 
- Participate in action research. 
- Participate in work groups or activities/projects with administrators or other other early childhood professionals to advance the work of the prekindergarten program, early childhood state strategic plan, and/or contribute to the early childhood profession.

Education: A Master's degree from an accredited college or university with an emphasis in early childhood education or child development is preferred. 

Experience: Minimum 6 years experience as an early childhood teacher; experience working with adult learners. 

Knowledge, Skills, and abilities: 
- Child development and learning principles, developmentally appropriate practice, learning progression in content areas (including learning standards and use of learning standards), curriculum design, formative assessment processes and data analysis, application of data to practice, family engagement, observation and document of children's play and work 
- Coaching/mentoring and team building 
- Ability to work in fast-paced environment, handle multiple tasks, work well with team members, legislators, department directors, and stakeholder groups. 
- Must possess excellent oral and written communication skills. 
- Ability to speak to groups and effectively communicate programs, policies and issues. 
- Ability to engage in sustained conversations, demonstrate active listening skills (paraphrasing), asking mediating and clarifying questions and summarizing key points, take observational notes. 
- Must be able to drive to and from schools and includes interisland travel to support schools, teachers and professional development. 

Please visit www.teachinhawaii.org to review the eligibility requirements for all bonuses, differentials, and initial salary placement. To obtain a Hawaii Teaching License, which is required to receive any salary differentials, please apply with the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board at www.hawaiiteacherstandardsboard.org.

For more information about this school, please visit their website at: https://earlylearning.hawaii.gov/ 

Equal Opportunity

The Hawaii State Department of Education does not discriminate in its educational policies, programs, and activities on the basis of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, and disability in accordance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and Americans with Disabilities Act of 1991. The Department does not discriminate in its employment policies, programs, and activities on the basis of sexual orientation, arrest and court record, and National Guard participation, as well as on the basis of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, and disability, in accordance with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1991, Equal Pay Act of 1963, and Chapter 378, Part I, Hawaii Revised Statutes.