After school teacher job description

This post includes 3 parts: duties list, job qualification and job description writing tips for After school teacher in details. A complete job description concludes After school teacher key duties/responsibilities, After school teacher job qualifications (knowledge, education, skills, abilities, experience…KSA model) and other ones such as daily tasks, key activities, key/core competencies, job functions/purpose…

I. List of After school teacher duties:

1.      Organize and lead after school games and activities.

2.      Help children with homework.

3.      Communicate closely with parents, and respond to children's needs at age appropriate level.

4.      Encourages students' positive self image and supports individuality, and independence.

5.      Maintains a safe, clean and healthy environment and follows Company and state licensing standards.

6.      Ensures that hazardous objects are out of reach of children.

7.      Manages classroom behavior by providing established rules and limits.

8.      Initiates and models positive interactions in the classroom and on the playground.

9.      Communicates parental concerns, issues and progress to the school Principal and supervisory teacher.

10.  Responsible for maintaining compliance with school programs and licensing regulations

11.  Greets parents upon pick up and communicate student progress with parents.

II. List of After school teacher qualifications

1. High School diploma or equivalent (GED) required.
2. Complies with all state education and licensing standards to work in a licensed preschool, and maintains validation of credentials for the position (i.e. professional development).
3. One year experience working with young children; Early Childhood Education Teacher, in a licensed preschool or similar preferred.
4. Strong organizational skills.
5. Must be 18 years of age or older.

III. Tips to write job description

1. Too-long job description:

Looking at a too-long job description can frighten the candidates off and drive the away. A job description, no matter how important the job is, should not be included in more than 3 pages. If one focuses on too many things at a time, he shall definitely lose focus on the main items and get overwhelmed by the remaining; So, keep it concisely.

2. Too-short job description:

While too-long can be a problem, too-short is more a problem. It will ruin the meaning of the job description. A too-short one means it lacks necessary details and therefore, the candidate will not be able to understand while reading it.

3. Listing unnecessary functions or job duties:

Just classifying these into the “others” category will save you a lot of effort and space. On the other hand, the job description will become more dilute and easy to be neglected.

4. Key functions

Not listing key functions as required for the job can be a fatal mistake to a job description.

5. Grammar and spelling

Poor grammar and having spelling errors can ruin the job description, too. Never think that as you are the employer, you may have the right to make grammar or spelling errors while requires other not to. A job description with such errors is easily to be mistaken as a fake or ghost ads; as a result, the candidate will turn away from it.

6. Not specific enough:

Be specific and concise; if you don’t address the specific, then what the job description is for. It is for the candidate to understand just exactly what he needs to do or needs to have. Lacking details can confuse the candidates very well.

7. Not having the job description reviewed by others:

This is also a common mistake. One may be subject to bias, but more than one, especially with the help of those external advisor, the job description can be more perfect.

8. Using buzzwords or abbreviations:

In fact, it is not necessary at all to use such in a job description.

9. Using slang or legal words:

Just use common wording to communicate with others and don’t do anything extraordinarily.

10. Not updating the job description:

The same job may require different duties and responsibilities in different times, so, you cannot use the same job description for 2 different times.