Lead Teacher Pool - Spring and Fall 2026 : Child Development Center

The Child Development Center, part of the School of Human Development and Family Sciences in the College of Health is seeking full or part-time, variable FTE, 9-month, professional faculty positions.

Applications submitted to this recruitment pool are reviewed on an as needed basis. Qualified candidates will be contacted when positions become available.

The Head Teacher (Lead Teacher) positions will establish a safe prekindergarten environment, teach the class of young children, conduct education and development screenings and assessments, identify, address, and track early education goals for individual children. They will conduct parent and teacher conferences and home visits required by the center model for the purposes of screening assessment, support, and goal setting and for sharing information on parenting, home/center activities, educational strategies, and developmental progress in conjunction with families.

The Head Teacher will be responsible for modeling effective, developmentally appropriate teaching strategies for HDFS 430, implementing one prekindergarten class of 20 children, addressing the early education requirements of the Child Development Lab’s Oregon Head Start Prekindergarten Program, and meeting state licensing and national accreditation regulations.