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Infant Day Care Teacher
Full Time • The Children's Center
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Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Paid time off
- Training & development
WE'RE GROWING — JOIN OUR TEAM! 👶🏽🧸
Infant & Toddler Teachers
The Children’s Center – Clinton, Maryland
The Children’s Center is growing! As we continue expanding our Infant and Toddler Programs, we are looking for qualified, dependable, nurturing, and energetic Early Childhood Teachers who are passionate about helping young children learn, grow, and reach important developmental milestones.
For more than 50 years, The Children’s Center has served children and families in the Clinton community. We believe that every child deserves a safe, loving, engaging environment where they feel valued, supported, and excited to learn.
Our Infant and Toddler Programs focus on creating strong foundations through nurturing relationships, age-appropriate learning experiences, sensory exploration, language development, movement, social-emotional development, and meaningful play.
What We Are Looking For
We are seeking teachers who are:
- Caring, patient, dependable, and professional
- Passionate about working with infants and toddlers
- Able to create a warm, safe, and nurturing classroom environment
- Comfortable supporting feeding, diapering, toileting, naps, and daily care routines
- Able to plan and participate in age-appropriate learning and play activities
- Knowledgeable about infant and toddler developmental milestones
- Able to encourage language, motor, cognitive, social, and emotional development
- Comfortable communicating with parents about their child's day and progress
- Able to maintain a clean, organized, safe, and engaging classroom
- Dependable and able to arrive to work on time and ready for the day
- Able to work collaboratively with teachers, directors, families, and other staff
- Positive, flexible, and willing to contribute to a growing early childhood program
Minimum Qualifications
For immediate consideration as an Infant/Toddler Teacher, applicants should have:
✓ 90 clock hours of approved Early Childhood/Preservice Training
✓ 45 clock hours of approved Infant & Toddler Training or the appropriate equivalent infant/toddler coursework
Applicants must also meet applicable Maryland Office of Child Care/MSDE requirements under COMAR Title 13A, Subtitle 16 for the position.
Current CPR/First Aid and Maryland Child Care Credential participation are strongly preferred.
Infant Teacher Responsibilities
Our Infant Teachers provide individualized, responsive care while supporting each baby's natural development. Responsibilities may include:
- Following individualized feeding and sleeping schedules
- Providing tummy time and developmentally appropriate movement
- Offering sensory and early-learning experiences
- Supporting attachment, trust, and emotional security
- Completing diapering and feeding routines safely
- Maintaining accurate daily communication with families
- Monitoring and documenting developmental progress
Toddler Teacher Responsibilities
Our Toddler Teachers help children build independence while learning through exploration and play. Responsibilities may include:
- Supporting language and vocabulary development
- Planning sensory, art, music, movement, and hands-on activities
- Encouraging gross and fine motor development
- Teaching beginning social skills such as sharing and taking turns
- Supporting self-help and independence skills
- Assisting families with potty-training routines
- Creating structured but engaging classroom routines
- Encouraging curiosity, confidence, and positive behavior
Why Join The Children’s Center?
At The Children’s Center, teachers are more than caregivers—they are an important part of a child's first educational experiences.
We are building a team of educators who want to grow with our center and help us provide:
❤️ Nurturing Care
🧠 Developmentally Appropriate Learning
🎨 Hands-On Exploration
🗣️ Language & Communication Development
🤝 Strong Family Partnerships
🌱 Social-Emotional Growth
⭐ Safe, Positive & Engaging Classrooms
🧠 Developmentally Appropriate Learning
🎨 Hands-On Exploration
🗣️ Language & Communication Development
🤝 Strong Family Partnerships
🌱 Social-Emotional Growth
⭐ Safe, Positive & Engaging Classrooms
Compensation
Starting at $18.00+ per hour, based on position, qualifications, and experience.
Location
The Children’s Center
7533 Old Alexandria Ferry Road
Clinton, MD 20735
7533 Old Alexandria Ferry Road
Clinton, MD 20735
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Compensation: $18.00 - $20.00 per hour
About Us
The Children's Center is centrally located near the Andrews Air force Base in the heart of Clinton, Maryland. We take pride in serving local communities since 1972. We have a large facility where our highly qualified, motivated and certified staff, encourage growth of skills in all areas of child development. In this fun and safe environment, children are challenged and engaged in a broad range of age and skill appropriate educational programs. We engage the whole family and believe that parents and teachers are partners in our children's care and development.
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