Lead Infant Teacher

A lead infant teacher's duties include:

• Caregiving: Being the primary caregiver for a small number of children, helping with daily activities, and ensuring their safety
  
  
• Planning: Creating and implementing developmentally appropriate activities and lesson plans, and conducting child assessments
  
  
• Communicating: Regularly communicating with parents about their child's progress, and facilitating parent-teacher conferences
  
  
• Supervising: Supervising assistant teachers and ensuring they are following program policy
  
  
• Training: Training assistant teachers and floaters, and directing them on their duties
  
  

Record keeping: Maintaining proper records, including documenting observations and milestones

Behavior management: Developing and implementing behavior management strategies

Safety: Ensuring all safety regulations are followed

Modeling: Modeling appropriate behaviors for children

Reporting: Reporting any signs of abuse or neglect to authorities

Infant teachers also provide a nurturing environment for infants to develop and reach age-appropriate milestones. They act as a bridge between home and early education, offering guidance and resources to parents.