preschool teacher

teacher's aide

teacher

education specialist

account manager

Children's-Learning-Adventure

A typical day at work is an 8-hour workday with an hour lunch break. I come in at 8 am. When I get into my classroom it is time to set up breakfast. After my children are done eating I then change every child's diaper. Circle time follows immediately after diaper changes. Specialty rooms such as, the reading reef and gym always follow after circle time. Once we are finished with specialty rooms, it is time for diaper changes and then lunch. Following lunch is naptime. During naptime I clean and finish up paperwork. After my break, naptime is over and then I proceed with diaper changes, snack, and free play. 

I have learned that I have co-teachers for a reason; therefore, I have to remember that I do not have to necessarily do all the work. I have been so used to doing everything myself, but having co-teachers is very helpful, I just have to utilize them.

I believe it is very beneficial to have a management team; however, I am a strong communicator. Sometimes management lacks to communicate with the co-workers. 

I do not know my co-workers personally, but I speak to every one of my co-workers and all are very hard working from what I have observed.

The hardest part of my job is lunchtime. I have twelve infants/toddlers. I have to make sure all are fed. I have to feed those who cannot feed themselves and make sure everyone who get a bottle have their bottle. I also have to get all cots out, clean the tables and floors, and pat all of my children down on their cots by a decent time. This time of the day is not necessarily the hardest, but it is the busiest part of the day.

The most enjoyable part of my job is my children. I absolutely love my children. They are near and dear to my heart. They are very smart and I just love having them in my presence. Talking with my parents I enjoy as well because my parents are very understanding and we work as a team. If they are doing something at home involving their children’s learning abilities, I will do the same at school; therefore, the parents and teachers are all on the same page. Singing with my children is also another enjoyable part about my job. It is enjoyable because they love to sing and my children are always smiling, laughing, and having fun during this part of the day.

RUN AWAY! This place is nothing but trouble. Horrendously understaffed, this school is a rotating door of employees. Random corporate people will walk into your classroom and demand you fix things without even so much as an introduction, much less bothering to get to know you or the kids you care for. The hard workers are worked half to death and I'm beginning to think the management just relies on those people to just work a ton of overtime instead of just hiring out help, because it seems I never had seen any new teachers (just a ton of new front office staff who sat around on their cell phones all day). The valuable employees are worked to the bone and to tears and eventually driven away. One classroom had a broken A/C and they went for ages without fixing it so the teacher kept pestering about it because it's the dead of Texas summer but nothing was done. Finally management got fed up with her asking about it and "let her go" instead of just fixing the issue outright. Toys are broken and old and tired; instead of hiring new bus drivers they recruit in-house, which means that they pull teachers out of their classrooms (aka leave the classrooms over ratio) so the teachers can drive the busses, and then the management complains when nothing gets done in the classroom (uh, hello?? Probably because a lot of us are too busy driving kids around on the bus). The kids are out of control. One little boy kicked the ever loving stuffing out of a member of staff, square in her face (that was the LEAST of his offenses), and he was not expelled. He shoves, flips tables, throws chairs, threatens staff, and is manipulative, and despite multiple complaints, nobody wants to deal with him. Communication from management to teachers is so messed up. Staff is left to fend for themselves. Lunch breaks are 100% forgotten about. Kids are always getting sick. It may look good on paper but trust me behind the scenes this place is an absolute disaster! Please, do yourself a favor and stay FAR FAR AWAY from this sinking ship.

I interviewed with a woman who works for the company as a hiring specialist and was based out of California. I was told my starting pay would be $14-$16 depending on my experience (I had 7 previous years of experience). After agreeing and then training for 4 whole days, I was told that they wouldn’t agree to my pay being $14, and the most they would offer me starting out was $10. After I explained I would be leaving they agreed to pay the $14. I was 5 months pregnant at the time, was a lead teacher, was promised an assistant teacher (3 out of 18 of my children were on the spectrum but still no help), and was bounced from room to room because they weren’t sure which one I would be using for the school year/needed to get it STEM ready. I was then given a room that was used as a storage space for other classrooms and told that I had to clean and reorganize/label/prepare it with no help and no extra hours to do so. The problem with that situation is that the company has a managerial position strictly for preparing classrooms, but she “didn’t have time” to help - for two solid weeks of me asking. The management was absolutely incompetent and completely rude. They would be so nice to your face but then instantly talk behind your back to others which would of course make its way back to you and then they would lie about it if confronted. I was doubled over, crying in pain, because I was lifting 30 pound children at 5 months pregnant, and made eye contact with three management staff members walking by, each who blatantly ignored me while I was trying to signal for help. Even when I called the front desk to ask for help it never happened, and bathroom breaks were given only when it was convenient for the person relieving you. Needless to say, it was beyond awful being there.

This is the most beautiful center you'll find anywhere, filled with tons of resource materials and the curriculum is provided for you! I have been teacheing over 30 years and never seen a more disorganized and I'll ran center! The children go to enrichment centers everyday for 30 minutes and these are fun-filled rooms where the children COULD and SHOULD go and have fun. But they are to go sit at tables and learn from the provided educational material that are SUPPOSED to be on the tables. Upon arrival the tables are not set up and there are no activities provided. So what to you do? Well I let them go play in these fun areas and then management walks in and asks why the children aren't at tables and yells at you for letting go have fun. That's only one area of concern. The next is the classroom where we follow the curriculum, stage the room, have everything in place and complying with standards and management comes into our room and complains. They NEVER have anything positive to say!  Another thing we have children in our room who continually cause problems and management says its your problem deal with it and what are you going to do when there are 20 kids in the classroom?  We have children who don't want to come to school because they are afraid of other children. THAT'S SAD!! They won't let you have any type of reward system other than praising the children. Then there's the Hatch boards. To this day there are still children who are not on the computers because staff can't seem to do their job and get them added. The teachers have had LIMITED training on the Hatch and we can't get them to even work for the morning gathering and the activities we are supposed to do on them. IF I WERE YOU I WOULD THINK TWICE BEFORE WORKING AT CLA!!!!!!!!

I have been a center director for a long time, and have never encountered the extremely high level of turnover this company has from the top down. All of the employees are constantly in fear of losing their jobs, which causes them to always be actively looking for something else. The fear of losing their job is justified, at one point I was told that I had to pick two members of management to fire (and terminate them) by end of day. There was very little communication from corporate level employees, aside from group emails to all centers. I accepted the position as it was presented to me as daytime hours, and my child was able to attend. Though it was great being able to have my child with me at the center, it was not great having him there for 10-11 hours each day (some of which were after hours). There are many evenings involved in this position, and mandatory saturdays. There were also vacation/PTO hours, but you are never able to use them unless you feel comfortable leaving your staff short staffed. When I was offered my position back at my previous company (which I loved), I gladly accepted. When I put my notice in, a current employee was offered the center director position from a member of the corporate team, however nobody was informed of this until after it was official. Feedback was given regarding this decision from many local level management members, however it was ignored. Now there is a center director with no experience, and not qualified to be in the role in accordance with state licensing.  Shortly after I left bankruptcy was filed on this center, and 9 others.

I loved working here and the teachers I worked with on a daily basis were wonderful. The biggest issue was poor management who did not communicate with the other employees. This caused the teachers' job to be a lot more difficult and created an environment among the teachers of bad attitudes because we were all frustrated with management. They lost a lot of amazing and innovative teachers that the children loved because after awhile the teachers get tired of being treated badly. 

The location I worked at was in Plano, so it may be true that there was specifically an issue with there. The other locations may be a lot better. I hope so because I loved the school's curriculum and the children and it was disappointing that management handled things so badly. I wouldn't suggest not working for the company, but I would absolutely recommend against applying to the Plano location. 

(I listed my salary as $12/hour but I only had that rate because I have a Bachelor's degree. Many of the other teachers who didn't have degrees would barely make $9/hour)

My position kept me very active. I was in charge of all the classes and everything that took place in those classes. I was in all the classrooms throughout the day. I was responsible for making sure class daily schedules were being followed, curriculum was implemented, teachers were correctly handling classroom management, health and safety procedures were being practiced, attendance rosters were completed, rooms were arranged correctly, evidence of learning was posted, inventory and order all literature books and curriculum, specialty rooms schedules, supplies for all classes and specialty rooms, end of week reports, end of month reports, training new hires (which was a week long process), ect.. I was also responsible for a morning and afternoon bus run.
I learned how to multi task even better and how to positively and productively manage multiple people and motivate them to do a good job.
Management was not supportive towards me or the needs of my classrooms. 
My co-workers, the teachers, were great. We got along well and I tried to help as much as I could. I had good working relationships with all of them. Even when I had to reprimand a teacher, I did so with respect and diplomacy.
The hardest part of my job was dealing with the Director.
The best part of my job was spending time in the classrooms playing with the kids.

When I interviewed for this job I was promised that this place wouldnt be like every other childcare center where you work unpredictable hours and you never know when you will leave. I ONLY worked unpredictable hours. Pretty much the whole 7 months I worked here I worked from 730-745 to whenever. Sometimes it was 530 sometimes 630 it was just whenever they decided to let me leave. It was awful for someone with 2 small children at home. Plus the rate for childcare is so expensive I don't know how any employee affords it. Employees get half off for childcare which sounds good but for my 3 & 5 year old it was going to be $470 every other week!! That's almost your whole salary!!!! Management was spread thin and didn't have time to do there job let alone help us do ours.  I did like the managers I just felt like they had no time for the employees. It was just not what I was expecting. They portray like they are some fancy preschool when they are truly a DAYCARE and nothing more. They have unrealistic curriculum that cannot be taught to children in the environment they provide. I spent my first several months in what was supposed to be a 3 year old preschool room with 8 2 year olds and 8 3 year olds.  We were in ratio, but it was pure chaos. It is impossible to teach any child with that many children of Different ages cramed in 1 room. They were always moving kids around and that made it hard to plan anything. Overall they are a good DAYCARE CENTER but nothing more.

I would arrive early to get the room ready. I would then pick up my class at 7:30 from the breakfast room and take them back to the room for free play and wait till the remaining children would arrive. At 8:00 I would start our day with a welcoming song, which included all the children. We would then work on the calendar, learning our days of the week, month and year. After the calendar, I would work on the Alphabet with the special letter of the day. There would be hands on experience for science and after preparing snack it would be story time.  Play center would be offer for the children and at this time we would be including other children and co-workers. I enjoy this part of the day because you are able to talk to you co-workers. These fellow teachers are hard working and love what they do.  When we come back in we get to do art, which the kids all loved. Language art will be up next as we learn through writing and listening to story. One of the hardest part of this job is seeing children there at the preschool/day care for long periods of time 10-12 hrs.a day. Some of the children start calling you mom.I know it is a reality of our world but, it is still sad. As for the management, my boss was very kind and helpful. I loved work at Children Adventure in Learning because I love to teach and I love being around people.         

Really nice school & cool ideas, but terrible managers and management! They don’t know what they’re doing, 2-3 people quit here every week. They talk and gossip very badly about teachers, parents, and other managers. The Director either is lazy as all get out or couldn’t care less about the things that happen. She never corrects management when they’re wrong, rude, or not doing their part. She allows her own child to freely bite other children there & still stay at the school. Out of all the managers, nobody can figure out how to make a correct schedule for us to follow! If you call them for help in your classroom, they probably won’t show up. Same is about true for getting a bathroom break. The older kids strongly dislike after school and Summer Camp. They repeatedly say the woman over the program is mean, and that last year their camp was “mean and boring.” I’ve nexer seen so many kids not want to come to a camp/event. They fire people that aren’t afraid to speak their minds. I’m sure this location will be going bankrupt or closing like the others soon. Steer VERY clear of here, it’s just a dressed up mess. They don’t value their teachers, especially the ones that actually have a passion to love & teach children. OH! And expect to work over 90 HOURS every pay period. Turnover rates are so high that there’s literally NOBODY to relieve you to go home, so you’ve just got to wait it out.

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