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The Director must set the example for being cheerful, organized and engaging! This includes with duties related to children, employees, and parents. The top priority is ensuring the safety of both children and employees. A Director is a leader who wears MANY hats and remains flexible and is available to advise or assist in all emergencies or a crisis. A Director must simultaneously ensure the quality of day–to–day operations are high quality while working on the growth of iCare. Maintaining financial & business duties such as accounting, taxes, payroll, budgeting etc. is the foundation needed to keep everything else running smoothly, this is also the Director Responsibility. At iCare the Director is often on site, strives to have an open–door policy and works to maintain great relationships with parents, students, and staff.
iCare is committed to fulfilling the need for quality childcare in our community. At iCare Child Development Center, we believe in the value and uniqueness of each child and family we serve.
Our childcare experience is designed to promote each child’s own individual social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development in a small, home-like setting. As caregivers and educators, our mission is to provide a safe and developmentally appropriate learning environment, which fosters a child’s natural desire to explore, discover, create, and become a lifelong learner.
"Empowering Young Minds to Flourish and Inspire a Brighter Tomorrow."
"Empowering Young Minds to Flourish and Inspire a Brighter Tomorrow."
Our program is built around the concept that children are born ready to learn, and learn best in an environment that is an extension of home.
As caregivers, we strive to create a learning environment that is safe, stimulating and encouraging. The following principles serve as the foundation for our curriculum.
• Children develop knowledge of their world through active interactions with caregivers, peers, materials, and events.
• Learning is sequential, building on prior understandings and experiences.
• Learning proceeds at different rates in each area and each child; children will show a range of skills and understandings in any one area of development.
• Learning in each area is interconnected. Young children learn best through experiences, which incorporate several areas of development.
• Learning begins in the family, continues in early care and education settings, and depends on parent involvement and caregiver guidance
At iCare, we believe that quality staff members are essential in providing a program that maintains high standards of childcare and education. Our staff members are chosen for their background and experience as well as their nurturing abilities. iCare employs childcare professionals who have positive attitudes and are warm and caring with our children. All teachers are continually trained in curriculum planning, child growth and development, child guidance, child safety, and first aid/cpr. Each staff member undergoes an extensive background check, which includes a national criminal records check and fingerprinting.
The Assistant Director works with the Owner/Director to ensure iCare’s mission, value and overall program goals are implemented day to day
in a cheerful, organized, and engaging manner. This position works closely with Lead, Assistant, Substitute and Floater teachers on day-to-day program
operations. The Assistant Director oversees a variety of things and is the go-to for day-to-day troubleshooting. Things such as Licensing, New Hire Recruitment, and interviewing, “Spot Training”, daily schedule
oversight, New student enrollment, Tours, Class rolls, Classroom Budgets, Supply ordering, Menu creation, maintain clean and safe building, errands, emergency subbing, student behavior management, assist in teacher evaluations, lesson plan oversite, maintains daily culture of iCare and the quality standards that
Owner/Director Sets.
The Lead Teacher should set a cheerful, organized, and engaging classroom atmosphere.
They will work closely with the Assistant Director to ensure schedules and lessons are implemented each day. Additionally, they work with Assistant Teachers or Floaters to help make sure the day
runs smoothly and in the best interest of the children. The number one job is ensuring the day to day emotional and physical safety of each child. This includes maintaining a clean and tidy classroom and outdoor space. In addition to safety, Lead Teachers are responsible for using Georgia Early Development Standards
(aka GELDS) and iCare classroom management when creating lessons, engaging with kids, use of space, free
play, assessments and more. A Lead Teacher must be prepared to handle other duties including Parent
communication, meal prep, training of new hires, cleaning, staff meetings etc.
The Assistant Teacher should work with the Lead Teacher to maintain a cheerful, organized, and engaging classroom.
While the lead plans the lessons, the Assistant is encouraged to give
input, and be enthusiastic about implementing the lessons, schedule & style of teaching set forth by the lead.
Assistant teachers should also be proficient in Georgia Early Development Standards (aka GELDS) and iCare classroom policies. Seek out ways to take initiative and help the lead teacher maintain safety, prepare for the
day, and engage with children. When the lead teacher is out the Assistant Teacher should be able to take over the class and maintain schedule, lessons and work closely with Substitute to ensure consistency for the children.
The Substitute/Floater Teacher should work with the classroom Lead or Assistant Teachers to maintain a cheerful, organized,
and engaging classroom. Flexibility and Understanding
of all ages groups is must for this position. If you are subbing for the Lead teacher, the assist teacher will lead
the classroom, you will step into the assistant role. It is important that a substitute and Floater understand
Georgia Early Development Standards (aka GELDS) and iCare classroom policies for all the age groups they
work with. When arriving each day, review each classroom’s schedule, the days lesson plan, ask about any
individualized student plans, and find ways to help and take initiative.
