Princeton Montessori School seeks an engaging, dynamic Upper Elementary trained Montessori
teacher for our well-established Elementary program. The ideal candidate would have a strong mastery of classroom management, materials, and content of subject areas. Organization, strong writing and speaking skills, comfort with parents, and a collaborative and professional demeanor with colleagues are important.

Princeton Montessori School is a co-educational school serving over 220 students from Infant to 8th grade. Established in 1968, the School sits on 21 acres (6 acres are wetlands) with a 52,000 square foot building. The school is fully accredited by the American Montessori Society and Middle States.

This is a 10-month position with summer opportunities to instruct at our Elementary teacher training course. Competitive salary and benefits. A warm and highly professional work environment.

Responsibilities:
The Upper Elementary Conference teacher is responsible for all duties of a classroom teacher and being the liaison of the school to the parents of an assigned group of students.

Teaching responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Preparing materials for student lessons and activities
- Assessing students' needs and individualizing curriculum in keeping with the abilities of the child
- Recording student progress according to benchmarks within the program
- Teaching core areas of the academic level assigned
- Holding students’ attention during lessons
- Strong behavior management using the Positive Discipline method
- Modeling social graces and Montessori tenets for children
- Maintaining a clean, orderly, sanitary, and safe environment for students
- Attending all teacher and parent meetings, events, and field trips of your program or the school, as required
- Maintaining a warm and attentive line of communication with parents
- Communicating the developmental, academic, and social progress of students confidentially
and professionally
- Maintaining accurate and respectful communication about the School, students, and staff
- Able to use positive confrontation with parents as needed to resolve conflict or give information
- Host parent conferences two times per year.

Must hold an AMS Upper Elementary teaching credential and work comfortably within the Google platform for communications, calendar, and drive documents.

About Princeton Montessori School

Princeton Montessori School is an independent, coeducational day school for children, infant through middle school, that seeks to ignite passion and develop potential in every student. Established in 1968, the school follows principles of education developed from the research of Dr. Maria Montessori. Our school holds the highest level of accreditation from the American Montessori Society and we are also a teacher training center for those interested in becoming a Montessori teacher. All persons who are employees of the Society share in the responsibility of observing a code of ethics which mandates truthfulness, honesty and integrity in all employee activities. As employees in an American Montessori Society (AMS) accredited school, we pledge to conduct ourselves professionally and personally in ways that will reflect our respect for each other and for the children we serve. We will do whatever is within our talents and capacity to protect the rights of each child to have the freedom and opportunity to develop to full potential.

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