Early Childhood Teacher

Summary

Join the Early Childhood Education Revolution! New Leaf Preschool is a Montessori and Nature-Based licensed private preschool and early childhood education center for students 15 months- 4 years old. We offer a natural-minded and highly researched approach to early childhood education in a state of the art building designed to enable child independence and integrate the living world.

New Leaf Preschool serves as an introduction to education at our K-8 Charter school, New Leaf Prep Academy, which is co-located on our school campus. Our Preschool was established 5 years ago and is growing rapidly due to our unique, education, and individualized approach to Early Childhood Education!

New Leaf Preschool provides a safe and nurturing environment for children to learn and grow to their full potential through enriching experiences! Our preschool incorporates fun and exciting nature inspired, organic learning environments, Montessori & Reggio-inspired curriculum, healthy organic and fresh food, and an eco-friendly toxic free environment. Every aspect of New Leaf Preschool was meticulously planned with the child’s best interests in mind! We focus on collaborating with parents so that our professional teachers can cater to each child’s individual needs and help them grow and expand mentally, emotionally, and socially at their own pace.

New Leaf Preschool’s curriculum is based on a combination of highly researched philosophies including Montessori & Reggio, in addition to the whole child approach to education. The whole child approach focuses not only on each child’s academic skills such as math and literacy skills, but also the social, emotional and cognitive skills necessary to prepare them for a lifetime of success. Sensory-based and self-directed learning through nature exploration is a major component of our program. Our classrooms, indoor and out, act as a second teacher with carefully chosen developmentally appropriate works and self-correcting materials which are organized to support maximum growth and exploration through open ended organic play. In addition these works and self-correcting materials accommodate the developmental needs of each individual student within the classroom.

CURRENT OPENINGS:

• Emergent Primary Lead Teacher (3 years-4 years)
• Toddler Lead Teacher (2 years-3 years)
• Emergent Toddler Lead Teacher (15 months-2 years)
• Float Teacher
• Part-Time Teacher

Duties

We are searching for Passionate Early Childhood Educators to join us on this revolutionary and exciting journey! Teachers are responsible for the following:

Instructional Responsibilities:

• Planing instructional activities that allow for child directed learning
• Maintaining a safe and nurturing environment that enables independence and freedom of choice
• Providing education to children through Montessori work presentations
• Providing education through nature-inspired activities
• Encouraging and challenge student development in all areas: academically, physically, emotionally, and socially
• Supporting and encouraging students in a calm and respectful manner
• Acting as a good role model in attitude, speech, and actions
• Forming positive partnerships with student’s parents to create a bridge between home and school
• Leading Parent/Teacher conferences
• Being Prepared
• Completing Progress reporting through frequent observations
• Progress tracking student growth and tailoring lessons to meet students developmental needs

Professional Responsibilities:

• Cooperates with administration in fulfilling professional responsibilities.
• Attend all teacher in-services, team meetings, open houses, student concerts, and conferences.
• Continues professional development growth and complete required Montessori or other teacher trainings.
• Reads and agrees to follow the policies and procedures as defined in the Employee Handbook

Requirements

• Experience in Early Childhood Education or Childcare
• An associates degree in Early Childhood Education or Bachelors degree in a related field (preferred)
• Experience teaching through the Montessori Method (Preferred)

We are willing to train the right candidate!

Benefits

• Paid Holidays (11 days)
• Paid Breaks (5 days spring break)
• Paid Vacation (40 hours)
• Paid Teacher In-Service (7 days)
• Paid Parent Teacher Conferences (2 days)
• Better than Pension Plan (401K 6% company match)
• Paid Continuing Education opportunities
• Collaborative Teaching Environment
• Supportive Families & Administration
• Fun & Positive Culture
• No Nights or Weekends

Feel the difference of working at a place that you love, that values what you do!

This is a full-year 12-month position.