St. George’s Episcopal School is searching for an experienced, enthusiastic and creative Early Childhood Teacher to work with Pre-K4 students.
St. George’s is seeking candidates who demonstrate a growth mindset and possess strong verbal and written communication skills.
Candidates who are organized, patient, flexible, warm, energetic and engaging are likely to be successful team members at St. George’s.
The classroom teacher will work alongside another full-time lead teacher. Classroom teachers take on all responsibilities of the classroom and are responsible for mentoring and guiding assistant classroom teachers.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Complies with all state licensing requirements and adheres to staff-to-child ratios and supervision guidelines at all times.
- Maintains accurate attendance, incident reports and required documentation.
- Maintains a safe, organized, clean and developmentally appropriate classroom environment.
- Prepares, rotates and cares for classroom materials.
- Facilitates rich, project-based learning through the Project Approach emergent curriculum across all subject areas, alongside high-quality, publisher-developed curriculum for literacy, math and writing.
- Sets learning goals integrated within a child-centered curriculum for each child and develops appropriately challenging differentiated experiences to meet the needs of all students.
- Supports children with diverse developmental needs, abilities and backgrounds and demonstrates culturally responsive and inclusive teaching practices.
- Partners with specialists (speech, OT, EI, etc.) as needed.
- Collaborates with their co-teacher to plan lessons each week.
- Understands that the environment they create is an important teaching tool.
- Listens carefully to students and reflects on and documents children’s processes and work, maintaining records of progress, routines and activities.
