Career Center

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At Belmont Day School, we foster intellectual curiosity, honor differences,

and empower meaningful contribution with excellence, respect, honesty, responsibility, caring, and joy.

Pre-kindergarten Teacher

We are seeking an innovative, nurturing, and dynamic pre-kindergarten teacher. This is a co-teaching position with each lead teacher responsible for teaching about 10 students in a shared classroom space.

This is a full-time, ten-month, exempt, and benefit-eligible position, which reports to the lower school head and begins September 2023. This position is not eligible for employer-sponsored relocation.

Responsibilities

• Possess and utilize knowledge of best practices in early childhood development to plan and execute engaging and developmentally appropriate instruction
• Create an inclusive classroom environment and learning community that integrates equity and inclusion pedagogy with early childhood teaching and fosters authentic parent engagement
• Utilize observation and documentation to assess and monitor growth in all curriculum areas, particularly language development, math, early literacy skills, and social-emotional skills
• Differentiate instruction and create a responsive curriculum to meet the individual needs of all students and support foundational skills
• Incorporate elements of outdoor early education pedagogy and inquiry-based learning into the curriculum
• Communicate verbally and in writing sensitively, regularly, clearly, and honestly with parents, informally and formally through conferences and semester reports
• Contribute to and benefit from collaborating with colleagues including but not limited to partnering with a co-teacher on set-up of a shared classroom space, curriculum development, and parent communication to provide a consistent experience for both pre-k cohorts
• 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 teacher
• Teach and exhibit our school’s six core values of excellence, respect, honesty, responsibility, caring, and joy

Competencies

• Knowledge of pre-kindergarteners and their developmental progression
• Ability to infuse equity, inclusion, and social justice concepts and themes into academic and social-emotional curriculums and inform teaching, classroom management, and parent relationships
• 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

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 Responsive Classroom, Singapore Math, Reggio Emilia approach, and equity, inclusion, and belonging work preferred

Please send a cover letter, resume, and references to careers@belmontday.org by Friday, March 31 and include “Pre-kindergarten Teacher” in the subject line.

About Belmont Day School

Belmont Day School is a pre-kindergarten through eighth grade independent school in founded in 1927 by a group of parents committed to providing children with an excellent academic foundation and many opportunities for creative expression. We value honesty, caring, joy, responsibility, respect and excellence.

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