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Assignment 3: Staffing Plan

After reading chapter 5 in your textbook and the PowerPoint, EDU261 Staffing Plans, complete your staffing plan below.

In assignment 1, Create a Mission Statement and Philosophy, you decided on the mission for your facility and the intended clientele. Now, you are going to make plans to staff the facility. What age groups will you serve? How many classrooms will you have? You will also need to figure out how to staff the classrooms in order to meet licensing regulations. The information in this assignment will be also used for the next assignment, Budget Plan.

This assignment has two parts:

Part 1 – Compile a list of the various roles you will have at your early childhood facility; do not forget to include the director. Create a job description that includes job duties/responsibilities, qualifications, supervision, and working conditions for TWO of the roles. Sample job descriptions are provided below for your reference. Feel free to use other formats but include the required components. If your child care facility is a family child care home or center in a residence, you will still need to complete job descriptions accordingly.

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Pre-school Lead Teacher Job Description

Job Summary, Duties and Responsibilities: As a Lead Preschool Teacher, you will be responsible for all academic subjects emphasizing language arts, math, physical education, social studies and science. Special subject teachers will be responsible for library time, French, art, music and additional science classes.

Your specific duties as a Lead Preschool Teacher will include:

· Working within budget parameters

· Maintaining records for each child

· Creating and implementing daily lesson plans and delegating tasks to assistant teachers

· Writing progress reports on each student on a regular basis

Qualification Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Education or a Bachelor’s Degree in any major with 15 semester hours in Early Childhood Education and 2 years full-time verifiable early childhood work experience. NC Early Childhood Credential required.

Supervision: As lead teacher you will be responsible for supervising teachers and teacher assistants assigned to your classroom as well as any volunteers or students who may be assigned to you. Assignment of volunteers and students will be done only with your agreement and cooperation. Your work will be supervised by the center’s director and assistant director.

Working conditions: Working hours for the lead teacher position will be either 6:45 AM to 3:45 PM or 10:15 AM to 6:15 PM with breaks and an hour long lunch period scheduled as per labor and child care regulations. You will be assigned to a classroom of 3, 4, or 5 year old children where you will carry out the duties as described above.

Infant Lead Teacher Job Description

Job Summary, Duties and Responsibilities: As a Lead Infant Teacher, you will be responsible for providing a warm, nurturing, safe, loving, and stimulating environment, which supports the Mission Statement of (Center).

Your specific duties as a Lead Infant Teacher will include:

· Working within budget parameters

· Maintaining records for each child

· Creating and implementing daily activity and environmental enrichment plans and delegating tasks to assistant teachers

· Writing daily activity reports on each student and progress reports as scheduled by director

Qualification Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Education or a Bachelor’s Degree in any major with 15 semester hours in Early Childhood Education and 2 years full-time verifiable early childhood work experience with infants. NC Early Childhood Credential required and Infant/Toddler certification preferred.

Supervision: As lead teacher you will be responsible for supervising teachers and teacher assistants assigned to your classroom as well as any volunteers or students who may be assigned to you. Assignment of volunteers and students will be done only with your agreement and cooperation. Your work will be supervised by the center’s director and assistant director.

Working conditions: Working hours for the lead teacher position will be either 6:45 AM to 3:45 PM or 10:15 AM to 6:15 PM with breaks and an hour long lunch period scheduled as per labor and child care regulations. You will be assigned to a classroom of 0-5 month old children or 6-12 month old children where you will carry out the duties as described above.

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You may find this link useful as you think about qualifications for Part 1 of this assignment and ratios and group size for Part II of this assignment: http://ncchildcaresearch.dhhs.state.nc.us/reqcomp.htm

Insert the list of roles at your center and two job descriptions here.

Roles

1. Director

2. Lead infant teacher

3. Pre school teacher

4. Todller teacher

5. Teacher aide

6. School secretary.

7. School nurse.

8. School financial accountants.

Part 1: Job descriptions

Teaching aide

As a teaching aide the core role will be supporting other teachers in the facility. You will also be responsible for supporting the children that need extra support such as those with disabilities. Your responsibilities as a teaching aide will be:

· Ensure the classroom is clean and safe.

· Document the progress of children and communicate it with the administration.

· Support the emotional and social development in the children and report any concerns.

Qualifications and requirements: Bachelor’s degree in early childhood education and other related fields with a minimum of two years working experience as a teaching aide or a similar role in a child care center.

Supervision: The teaching aide will have the responsibility of supervising the children to help note any significant changes in the social and emotional development of the children.

Working conditions: as a teaching assistant your working hours will be 9am- 4pm for 5 days a week, there will be one hour breaks as recommended by the labor and child care regulations. The teaching aide will be assigned a group of children between the age of 0-2 years to perform the above jobs.

Facility Director

As the facility director you will be the leader of the center and will oversee the entire operations of the facility.

Your specific responsibilities will be:

· Revise the policies and procedures of the child care center.

· Evaluate the teaching staff and assess the teaching methods.

· Setting the performance standards and goals for the child care center.

· Administering the budget of the facility.

Supervision: The director will supervise the teaching activities and the conduct of the teachers and also help monitor the performance of the children.

Working conditions: The director will be working for 7 hours a day for five days a week with the appropriate breaks.

Part 2 – Once you have created your list of roles, job descriptions, and qualifications, create a staffing plan by staff member and by classroom using the tables below. Be sure to include your facility name at the top of the page then, fill in the tables with the required information. Every employee in your facility should be included in the staffing plan by staff member.

Feel free to add additional rows to the table by clicking on the row then, insert rows.

You may find this link useful when contemplating your salary decisions for teachers; other salaries may have to be researched. http://ncicdp.org/compensation/salary-schedule/

Staffing Plan by Staff Member for (Children’s Den Childcare center)
Title of Position	How Many Needed	Work Schedule	Recommended Annual Salary	Total Yearly Cost (Annual Salary x How Many Needed)
Director	1	8am - 4pm	$40,000	$40,000
Assistant director	1	8am - 4pm	$36,000	$36,000
Infant lead teacher	2	10am - 4pm	$30,000	$60,000
Preschool lead teacher.	2	10am-4pm	$29,000	$58,000
Pre school teacher.	6	8am-4pm	$28,000	$168,000
After school teacher	4	10am- 5pm	$27,500	$150,000
Nurse	2	9am- 4pm	$50,000	$100,000
Secretary	1	8am-5pm	$32000	$32,000
Cleaners	5	10am-6pm	$27500	$137500
Cooks	2	9am- 5pm	$28000	$56,000
Security personnel	2	5pm-6am	$30,000	$60,000

Staffing Plan by Classroom ( Children’s Den Child care center)
Classroom (What age/group of children served; 0-12 months/infants)	Number of Children Served in Classroom	Staff/Child Ratio	Staff Schedule (List each staff title & the hours for that staff; lead teacher 7:30-4:30, assistant teacher 9:00-6:00)
0- 1 years	15	1:6	Director8am - 4pm
1 - 2years	20	1:10	Assistant director ,10am - 4pm
2- 3 years	20	1:15	Infant lead teacher, 10am-4pm
3- 4 years	30	1:20	Preschool lead teacher,8am-4pm
School going age	50	1:25	Pre school teacher, 10am- 5pm
			After school teacher, 9am- 4pm
			Nurse, 8am-5pm
			Secretary, 10am-6pm
			Cleaners, 9am- 5pm
			Cooks, 9am- 5pm
			Security personnel, 5pm-6am

Submit this completed document.