What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Preschool Teacher position at lakewood-montessori?
Lakewood Montessori is looking for you!
Our accredited, well-established Montessori preschool is in need of an assistant teacher to complete our classroom community. This is a full-time position, 40 hours per week Monday through Friday.
Your role would be to work as a supportive team with your lead and co-assistant teachers to foster a nurturing, stimulating, caring, and peaceful environment. Your role involves:
- Modeling positive behaviors, curiosity, and kindness for children,
- Supporting group time and outdoor play,
- Supporting language development, social and emotional learning, and executive functioning skills,
- Facilitating transitions,
- Preparing learning materials,
- Helping children with independence milestones like toilet learning, and...
- Helping make the learning environment a lovely and inviting place to be!
We encourage you to visit our website to see if Lakewood Montessori is the teaching environment for you! You'll feel right at home in our class community if you are positive by nature, are a good communicator, love to learn, and believe in the potential of each child.
We are looking for someone with a CDA or relevant education related to young children, and at least one year of experience working in an early childhood education setting with children between the ages of 15 months and 6 years. Candidates with experience in a Montessori setting are highly encouraged to apply. We welcome all your talents: crafting, cooking, gardening, singing... feel free to share them in your resume!
This is a full-time position. Benefits include:
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- Paid holidays and vacation time
- Tuition discount for children of teachers
- Paid professional development
- Paid license and training fees
To apply for this position, please send us your resume (including professional references). We can't wait to hear from you!
COVID-19 considerations
We're an essential business, so staying COVID-19 safe is our priority. We have implemented:
- Remote drop off and pick up
- Temperature checks and health screenings at drop off
- Masks required for teachers, students, & parents
- Reduced class sizes
- 48 hours mandatory exclusion policy
- Fully vaccinated staff