Early Preschool Lead Teacher

Early Preschool Lead Teacher
Cobb Children’s Learning Center
Do you love the energy, curiosity, and big personalities of young preschoolers?
Cobb Children’s Learning Center is looking for a warm, dependable, and enthusiastic Early Preschool Lead Teacher to create a safe, engaging, and nurturing classroom for young children as they build independence, language, social skills, and confidence.
This is a full-time, salaried position, generally 36+ hours per week.
About the Role
As an Early Preschool Lead Teacher, you’ll guide children through an exciting stage of development filled with exploration, growing independence, emerging friendships, and rapid learning.
You’ll create a classroom where children feel secure and supported while also having plenty of opportunities to move, create, communicate, investigate, and learn through play.
You’ll also provide leadership within the classroom, work closely with Assistant Teachers and other staff, and build positive relationships with families.
What You’ll Do
Your responsibilities will include:
Plan and lead developmentally appropriate classroom activities
Create hands-on learning experiences that encourage curiosity, creativity, communication, problem-solving, and cooperation
Use children’s interests, abilities, developmental levels, cultures, and experiences to guide classroom planning
Establish predictable routines that help young children feel safe and successful
Support children as they develop independence, communication, emotional regulation, and social skills
Use positive guidance and age-appropriate behavior-support strategies
Maintain a welcoming, organized, inclusive, and engaging classroom
Actively supervise children throughout the day
Maintain required staff-to-child ratios and group-size requirements
Observe and document children’s development, learning, behavior, and interests
Use observations to help plan future learning experiences
Communicate professionally and regularly with families
Maintain accurate and confidential classroom and child records
Work collaboratively with Assistant Teachers, administrators, and other staff
Provide clear and respectful classroom leadership
Participate in required meetings, training, professional development, and coaching
Follow all health, safety, sanitation, emergency, licensing, confidentiality, and mandatory-reporting requirements
Who We’re Looking For
We’re looking for someone who:
Genuinely enjoys working with young children
Is patient, encouraging, and energetic
Can create a calm and predictable environment while still making learning fun
Understands that early preschoolers are learning how to communicate, share, wait, follow routines, and manage big emotions
Builds strong, positive relationships with children
Communicates respectfully with families and coworkers
Is comfortable leading a classroom and supporting other staff
Is dependable, organized, and responsible
Can adapt when children or classroom needs change
Values teamwork and professional growth
Is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and developmentally appropriate environment
Reliability Is Important
Young children benefit from familiar, consistent caregivers.
Because the Lead Teacher plays an important role in classroom supervision, staffing ratios, safety, and continuity for children and families, regular and reliable attendance is an essential responsibility of this position.
We’re looking for someone who arrives on time, communicates well, and can be counted on by children, families, and coworkers.
This Is an Active Job
Early preschool classrooms are busy, hands-on environments.
With or without reasonable accommodation, this position includes:
Standing, walking, sitting, bending, kneeling, crouching, and frequently moving between the floor and standing
Participating in indoor and outdoor play
Moving quickly when a child needs assistance or a safety concern arises
Lifting and carrying classroom materials weighing up to 25 pounds
Assisting or moving a child when reasonably necessary for care or safety
Helping with classroom setup, cleanup, sanitation, and organization
Continuously observing children and the classroom environment to provide appropriate supervision
CCLC considers reasonable accommodations for qualified employees as required by law.
Professional Requirements
The Early Preschool Lead Teacher must maintain all certifications, training, background-check eligibility, and other qualifications required for the position in the State of Oregon.
All employees must also follow applicable child-safety and mandatory-reporting requirements.
Why This Role Matters
Early preschool is a remarkable stage.
Children are discovering their voices, testing their independence, forming friendships, learning routines, and developing skills they’ll build on for years.
A great Early Preschool Lead Teacher helps children feel safe enough to explore, supported enough to try, and confident enough to keep learning.
If you enjoy getting down on the floor to play, reading the same favorite book again, celebrating small victories, helping children work through big feelings, and creating a classroom full of meaningful learning experiences, you may be exactly who we’re looking for.
Compensation & Benefits
Annual Salary: $38,000-43,000 DOE
Salaried employees receive front-loaded PTO, holidays, closures, and other benefits in accordance with Cobb Children’s Learning Center policies.
Apply Today
If you’re looking for a teaching position where you can build meaningful relationships with children and families while helping young learners grow every day, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply today to join Cobb Children’s Learning Center as our Early Preschool Lead Teacher.

Employment type
Full-Time

Work arrangement
No