Maternity Leave - Junior Kindergarten Lead Teacher 2024-2025
Renbrook School
Application
Details
Posted: 27-Jan-25
Location: West Hartford, Connecticut
Type: Full Time
Salary: Commensurate with experience.
Categories:
Early Childhood
Required Education:
4 Year Degree
Internal Number: RS 2024-25 A3
Renbrook School (West Hartford, CT), an independent day school for children aged 3 to Grade 8, seeks a Lead Teacher to fill a full-time Junior Kindergarten maternity leave position in our Beginning School. Candidates should be ready to begin around mid-April with responsibilities lasting through the beginning of June.
Our approach to early childhood education is based upon our belief that play is the gateway to learning for our youngest children – the way they gain knowledge about themselves, others, and their world. Our program is designed to carefully nurture the social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development of our youngest students through a variety of activities and integrated experiences based on themes and projects. We seek a teacher who will bring creativity, joy, and energy to the world of early childhood teaching.
Responsibilities:
Nurture the social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development of our youngest students.
Continue to foster an established classroom environment that balances play as the way our youngest children learn about themselves, others, and their world.
Collaborate with partner teacher, grade level team, and specialists around a theme-based curriculum.
Incorporate tinkering, experimenting, and making with a variety of materials to develop a foundational understanding of STEAM concepts (science, technology, engineering, art, and math).
Embrace the benefits and opportunities of outdoor learning on Renbrook’s campus.
Approach students from an asset-based perspective and document students’ interests and skills through observation and listening against Renbrook’s JK Benchmarks.
Update families on their child’s progress and the curriculum through emails, weekly newsletters, and Seesaw postings.
Enhance the school’s commitment to diversity and belonging through an early childhood lens to ensure students see themselves reflected in the classroom environment and curriculum.
Bring creativity, joy, and energy to the Beginning School.
Qualifications:
Collaborative nature, creativity, and a sense of humor
Excellent relationship-building and strong written and verbal communication skills
Experience with a play-based curriculum is encouraged
BA is required, MA is suggested; three years teaching experience preferred.
The review of candidates will begin immediately with an expected start date in April 2025 through early June 2025.
Interested applicants should submit a cover letter, resume, and three letters of reference included together in one PDF document to employment@renbrook.org with "JK Maternity Leave" in the subject line.
Qualifications:
Collaborative nature, creativity, and a sense of humor
Excellent relationship-building and strong written and verbal communication skills
Experience with a play-based curriculum is encouraged
BA is required, MA is suggested; three years teaching experience preferred.
Founded in 1935, Renbrook School is a pre-eminent preschool through eighth grade co-educational independent day school located in West Hartford, Connecticut. The school enrolls 330 students from 30 cities and towns in Connecticut and Massachusetts. The Renbrook experience is defined by a high degree of academic rigor, personalized attention as a result of small class sizes, a nurturing environment, and an emphasis on values and respect among members of a tight-knit community.
Renbrook School is an affirmative action - equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religious creed, age, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, present or past history of mental disability, intellectual disability, learning disability or physical disability, including but not limited to blindness, veteran status, sexual orientation, and other protected classes.
Renbrook School will make a reasonable accommodation to known disabilities of a qualified applicant or employee, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on its operation.