Details
Posted: 24-Apr-22
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Type: Full Time
Required Education: 4 Year Degree
Categories:
Elementary Teacher
The Croft School – Associate Teacher (Jamaica Plain, Boston)
Start Date: August 2022
About The Croft School
The Croft School is a young independent school in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston. Having opened in Fall 2020, our school currently serves 120 students in Preschool through Grade 1. (We are in the midst of an awesome second year!) Over time, the school will grow into a Preschool through Grade 6 school.
The Croft School provides an engaging, innovative, child-centered program to its students and a unique parent-oriented experience to its families, all within a tight-knit, diverse, and joyous environment. Our classrooms balance high-quality math, reading, and writing instruction with innovative project-based learning, age-appropriate opportunities for play and creative expression, and weekly nature explorations or community trips.
The school has quickly become a highly-popular option among families in and around Boston, with significantly more enrollment interest than available seat capacity.
The Croft School has sister schools in Providence (founded 2018) and the South End neighborhood of Boston (opening 2022).
More information about our school can be found here: www.thecroftschool.org.
About The Role
The Croft School (Jamaica Plain) is seeking an exceptional Associate Teachers for the 2022-23 school year and beyond.. Each Associate Teacher will work closely with a Lead Teacher in a Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, Grade 1, or Grade 2 classroom (16 students per classroom). Expected hours are 7:20am-3:20pm or 8:20am-4:20pm.
The ideal candidate for the Associate Teacher role is an individual who is excited to learn from experienced teachers and preparing to be a full-time lead teacher down the road. Ideally, though, this individual will have experience working with children / students somewhere within the Preschool through Grade 2 span.
The ideal candidate will be committed to building deep relationships with their students and use that knowledge to establish and support a classroom that balances high-quality centers-based learning (including academic instruction), project-based learning, learning throughout the neighborhood and community, social-emotional learning, and play-based learning. All Croft team members, including Associate Teachers, dedicate ample time and thoughtfulness to close communication and partnership with their students’ families.
Qualifications and Qualities
- Experience working with 4- to- 8-year-old children in a childcare or school setting
- Eagerness and enthusiasm for playing a supporting role in a high-performing classroom as well as eagerness to learn and develop into a Lead Teacher over time
- A contagious love for teaching, children, and nurturing students’ natural curiosity, instilling in them a lifelong passion for learning
- An entrepreneurial spirit coupled with an ambitious work ethic.
- Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, inclusive of empathy for others, thoughtful listening, team-orientation, and enthusiasm for working closely with a lead teacher and other colleagues
- Ability to support the development of a joyous learning environment.
- Ability to support and/or lead targeted, small-group instruction and activities.
- Self-reflectiveness, humility, and an eagerness to continually improve one’s practice.
- A Bachelor’s Degree and current authorization to work in the United States is required.
Compensation and Benefits
The Croft School offers compensation which is competitive with other local independent and public school opportunities. As an equal opportunity employer, The Croft School does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ability, age, religion, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin. We encourage applicants of all backgrounds to apply.
Next Steps
Interested candidates should send a short email of interest, along with an attached resume, to our Head of School, Peter Cipparone (pcipparone@thecroftschool.org).