Details
Posted: 31-May-22
Location: Belmont, Massachusetts
Type: Full Time
Preferred Education: Masters
Categories:
Elementary Teacher
Inspire and challenge.
At Belmont Day School, we foster intellectual curiosity, honor differences,
and empower meaningful contribution with excellence, respect, honesty, responsibility, caring, and joy.
Interim Kindergarten Teacher
We are seeking a resourceful, innovative, and nurturing teacher to join a kindergarten teaching team working with around 26 students in a vibrant kindergarten classroom beginning fall 2022. This is a full-time, exempt, and benefit eligible position. It is a ten-month position and reports to the lower school head. This is a one-year interim position and will start August 2022 and end June 2023.
Responsibilities
- Possess and utilize knowledge of best practices in early childhood development, education, and diversity, equity, and inclusion pedagogy to plan and execute engaging and developmentally appropriate instruction
- Utilize observation and documentation to assess and monitor growth in all curriculum areas, particularly language development, math, early literacy skills, and social-emotional skills
- Create an inclusive classroom environment and learning community that integrates diversity, equity, and inclusion pedagogy with early childhood teaching and fosters authentic parent engagement
- Incorporate elements of outdoor early education pedagogy and inquiry-based learning into the curriculum
- Differentiate instruction and create a responsive curriculum to meet the individual needs of all students and support foundational skills
- Communicate verbally and in writing regularly, clearly, and honestly with parents, informally and through conferences and semester reports
- Contribute to and benefit from working with committed and talented colleagues
- Incorporate technology in the classroom in a meaningful and developmentally appropriate way
- Participate enthusiastically in all aspects of an excellent school which could include serving as an Associate Teacher Mentor, Capstone mentor, middle school athletics coach, and/or health and wellness/choices teacher
- Teach and exhibit our school’s six core values of excellence, respect, honesty, responsibility, caring, and joy
Competencies
- Ability to infuse diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice concepts and themes into academic and social-emotional curriculums and inform teaching, classroom management, and parent relationships
- Knowledge of kindergarteners and their developmental progression
- Thorough understanding of instructional practices in early childhood skill development
- Ability to develop, adapt, and differentiate the curriculum in multiple subject areas
- Establish and maintain strong home-school partnerships with families to ensure student success
- Strong collegial and interpersonal skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Flexibility, sense of humor, energy, and optimism
Belmont Day seeks candidates who will add to the diversity of our community. The school will always be maintained as a nonsectarian institution. The school is an equal opportunity employer. The school complies with all legal requirements in connection with admissions and access to programs, facilities and employment practices regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, or disability.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred
- Experience teaching early childhood students required; experience teaching in a school setting preferred
- Training and/or experience with Fundations, Responsive Classroom, Singapore Math, and diversity work preferred