Harding Academy is an independent co-ed school, accredited by the SAIS, serving students from Pre-Kindergarten to the 8th grade. It is a warm and caring school environment where respect is the key ingredient. Every child, parent, and colleague is a unique individual worthy of our understanding and greatest effort. Harding Academy employs outstanding faculty, staff, and administrators, provides technologically enhanced facilities, and offers a broad and challenging curriculum designed to develop the whole person.

The mission of our school is to educate and inspire young people to become thoughtful, creative, lifelong learners and self-disciplined, responsible, caring citizens. Members of the faculty are an important part of this effort. We strive and serve so that the students may become young men and women who are able to make choices that will benefit themselves, our society, and our world.

The primary teaching responsibilities of the Full-Time Pre-Kindergarten Teacher include delivery of the Harding Academy Pre-Kindergarten academic and social-emotional curriculum.

Click HERE to view the full Job Description outlining the Essential Responsibilities and Competencies of this position as well as Harding Academy Work Values.

This is a full-time position beginning no earlier than August 1, 2025.*  The position offers applicable full-time benefits which may include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability insurance.

* The position may require some limited pre-work during the summer with our Director of Teaching & Learning and/or Director of Pre-Kindergarten.

Bachelor’s degree in Education or in Early Childhood Development

Current or transferable teacher certification in the State of Tennessee

Ability to clear a background and fingerprint screening

Preference:  Master’s degree and/or at least two-year's experience in an instructional role

About Harding Academy

Harding Academy is a coeducational, nonsectarian day school serving pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. With a focus on rigorous academics taught by nurturing teachers, Harding Academy students thrive within a uniquely balanced and motivating environment. At the heart of the Harding Academy advantages is our fundamental commitment to the PreK-8 structure, which supports every student’s social, emotional, and academic needs in a developmentally appropriate manner. We seek to serve a diverse community of families searching for the optimal pathways to some of the nation’s most challenging public and independent high schools, and who share our mission to foster thoughtful, lifelong learners and responsible, caring citizens. Harding Academy strives to inspire the mind and nurture the spirit in all we do. Our PreK-8 model provides the optimal environment in which to strike this balance. We serve each and every student with a whole-child approach and through challenging and developmentally appropriate curriculum, character education, and extracurricular activities.

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