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Posted: 04-Oct-23
Location: New York, New York
Type: Contract
Salary: $25-$38 per hour
Categories:
Early Childhood
Pine Street School is hiring a maternity-leave, Spanish-immersion preschool teacher to start on March 1, 2024 extending to mid June, with the possibility of an extension.
We are looking an experienced Spanish-speaking Preschool teacher with Montessori and/or International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program (IB PYP) experience, to teach in a 4-year-old classroom. The room is run as a Montessori classroom, with IB PYP philosophy and practices being planned and taught simultaneously.
ABOUT PINE STREET AND GREEN IVY SCHOOLS
Green Ivy Schools is a future-facing network of innovative schools, education thought-leaders, partnerships, and programs that prioritize authentic student learning, activism, community engagement, and ethical enthusiasm for emerging technology.
Pine Street School, a member of Green Ivy Schools, is an internationally-minded community dedicated to providing an innovative, engaging, multilingual, and multicultural education that inspires and empowers our students to take mindful action for equity and the environment, making a positive impact on the world. We prioritize authentic student learning, activism, community engagement, and ethical enthusiasm for emerging technology. We offer both Spanish and Mandarin immersion programs for students in grades preschool through fifth grade.
ABOUT YOU
- You are passionate about innovative, global education and is dedicated to supporting language immersion practices in a constructivist, inquiry-driven learning environment.
- You enjoy collaborating with fellow teachers, are excited to learn, and strive to implement outstanding teaching practices and student engagement skills
- You are skilled at assessing and documenting student learning and using assessment data to drive planning and teaching
- You are tech savvy and value technology as a key learning and teaching tool
- You believe in city-as-classroom learning experiences and you value and implement service learning
- You are organized, proactive, trustworthy and have a strong work ethic
HOW YOU WILL SUPPORT PINE STREET SCHOOL STUDENTS
- Establish and maintain classroom culture alongside English co-teacher
- Implement and build curriculum for both Montessori and IB PYP
- Oversee planning, preparation, teaching, and learning
- Plan and attend to the environment to meet the requirements of both Montessori and IB PYP
- Collaborate with colleagues to ensure curriculum coherency and professional ethos of the Preschool
- Take ownership of logistical and operational matters and problem solving with colleagues
- Attend whole school meetings and work on whole school projects
- Conduct ongoing assessment, documentation and reporting of all students
- Communicating with parents, both formally and informally
- Legally authorized to work now and in the future in the United States
- Montessori teaching experience required
- International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program (IB PYP) experience preferred
- Valid teaching certification (or equivalent)
- Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Education
- Full Professional Spanish Fluency Required
- Fluency in English (able to successfully attend workshops, read professional information and work collaboratively in English.)
- Proficient user of Mac computers, iPad, and iPhone and fluency in MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) or Mac applications (Pages, Numbers, Keynote)
- Ability to work collaboratively with others
- Strong organizational and management skills
- Up-to-date on Covid-19 vaccines for which you are eligible
About Pine Street School
Green Ivy Schools is the innovative, community-based venture founded by school development expert and Lower Manhattan mother, Dr. Jennifer Jones. Green Ivy offers modern, community-inspired private schools that address the Lower Manhattan school shortage while providing a rich and engaging inquiry-based private education.
WE HAVE 2 SCHOOLS:
Pine Street School: A Spanish and Mandarin immersion preschool and elementary school. We are Lower Manhattan's only International Baccalaureate (IB) school offering the Primary Years Programme. Our curriculum is inherently technology-based, promoting hands-on experiences that fuel innovative thinking and cultivate a culture of teamwork and collaboration in support of global citizenship. Our space is modern and innovative, with creative architectural features that evoke nature and inspire learning.
Battery Park Montessori: Nestled among trees and tucked away on the riverfront in South Battery Park City. Certified educators guide students as they explore Montessori materials in an inspiring environment where light, nature and water are ever-present themes. The program enrolls children 2 through 6 years. Our trilingual language program com
...plements a young child’s natural predisposition to new sounds and rhythms. As Maria Montessori’s observations and current brain research has shown, children’s sensitive period to language is from 0 to 6 years old. At Battery Park Montessori, we expose our children to both Mandarin and Spanish throughout the day.
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