St. George’s Episcopal School is searching for an experienced, enthusiastic and creative Early Childhood Teacher to work in a one, two or pre-kindergarten three-year-old classroom.
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 co-lead teacher and in some cases, an assistant or small group instructor. 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 and health and safety 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.
- Implements rich, child-centered, project-based learning through the Project Approach emergent curriculum, honoring children’s interests and exploration across subject areas.
- Sets learning goals integrated within a child-centered curriculum for each child and develops appropriately challenging experiences to meet the needs of all students.
- Demonstrates an ability and willingness to differentiate instruction.
- Collaborates with their co-teacher to plan lessons each week.
- Understands 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 interests.
- Uses observation and documentation to inform curriculum and instructional decisions.
