Application Requirements:
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Description:
Pre-School teacher’s primary role is to provide the children in their care with a safe and secure learning environment.
To share responsibilities for planning, assessing, organizing and delivering activities and creating customized learning experiences for a group of children.
To work within an anti-discriminatory and inclusive environment and support the team to facilitate the all-round development for all children, enabling them to reach their full potential.
To be committed to the learning outcomes for the children and, therefore to the types of teaching which will encourage these outcomes
To work together constantly to translate learning outcomes into daily classroom practice.
Essential Responsibilities:
Work with children- Classroom teachers are responsible for teaching a mixed-age group of children in all subject areas, planning to meet the needs of the entire group as well as individual children. Enabling the social, emotional, physical, and intellectual development of each child is a teacher’s primary responsibility.
Work with Environment and Materials- Teachers are responsible for designing, organizing, and maintaining a materials-based classroom that reflects the curriculum and current work of the children. Teachers create and prepare materials that serve the curriculum. Teachers should be able to use various forms of technology to enhance student learning.
Curriculum Development- Teachers are responsible for developing curriculum in all areas based on children’s developmental capacities and needs and current understanding of literacy learning, mathematics, and interdisciplinary curriculum development in social studies, science, and the arts. Curriculum development is informed by ongoing, anecdotal, and formal assessments of children’s work and learning in all areas. An anti-bias, multicultural understanding must be reflected in the curriculum developed for children.
Staff- An interest in professional growth is expected. Head and Associate Teachers meet often with their curriculum coordinator and participate in weekly age-group meetings and weekly staff meetings after school. Teachers also collaborate with subject area specialists (art, music, English, classroom) to design and implement curriculum. As part of a diagnostic team, teachers work with learning specialists, a school psychologist, and meet with parents, tutors, and therapists.
Parents- Teachers email daily classroom updates to families. Teachers are required to meet with parents on PTM quarterly for individual conferences and to be available for additional conferences where needed. Teachers and parents work together to increase each other’s knowledge of the children.
Visitors- In addition to modeling a DFS approach to education by having daily visitors and observers in the classroom, teachers may be asked to speak to visiting groups.
Desired Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Education
- Deep knowledge of, commitment to, and experience with progressive education and schooling.
- Extensive early childhood teaching experience, including Kindergarten
- Demonstrated personal and professional commitment to social justice and equity
- Strong interpersonal and organizational skills, including written and oral communication
- Warmth, humor, flexibility, and optimism
NTT/B.Ed./Montessori/Early Childhood Certification Proffered.
