Position Title: Elementary Lead Guide

FLSA Classification: Exempt, academic-year (10-month) position

Reports To: Elementary Director

Hours: 8:00 a.m.– 4:00 p.m.

Position Starts: 2026-2027 School Year

Summary

The Elementary teacher is a full-time, ten-month position responsible for implementing Montessori curriculum in an Elementary program for ages 6–9. This role includes:

• Modeling a positive regard for the children, their work, and their personal dignity

• Preparing an environment for optimal growth and development—academic, social, physical, and emotional

• Guiding and assessing students through the Montessori Elementary curriculum

• Creating lesson plans and record-keeping systems to follow student progress

• Mentoring and facilitating a collaborative partnership with the classroom assistant teacher

• Implementing a “going out” program

• Engaging in collaboration with faculty and staff

• Communicating with families on a regular basis to share student progress (2 conference periods)

• Attending overnight experiences for the students (grades 3 and up)

• Utilizing Transparent Classrooms to prepare conference reports and communicate regularly with parents

• Attending faculty and team meetings

• Attending school-wide after school events as part of community and program support

The well-grounded candidate will have experience teaching Elementary students in Montessori environment. We are looking for people who possess:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• AMI/AMS Elementary Diploma

• A general knowledge of Elementary content areas

• A never-ending passion for personal learning

• The ability to creatively match academic and real-world challenges to a variety of student skill levels

• The ability to create a learning environment that engages students

• Commitment to the goals of Montessori education

• Experience working in a Montessori classroom environment preferred

Physical Requirements and Work Environment

Regularly sit, talk, and listen

Regularly uses close and distance vision

Assist with car line duties to ensure safe and efficient student drop-off and pick-up.

The Post Oak School is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, nationality, or ethnic origin with regard to hiring, admission, or in the administration of any of its programs.

About The Post Oak School

The Post Oak School is a premier Montessori school in Bellaire, Texas (Houston area) serving students from age 14 months through high school. Post Oak is authorized as an IB World School to offer the IB Diploma Program for grades 11 and 12. One of the U.S.’ oldest Montessori schools, The Post Oak School is an educational leader both among Houston’s top private schools and among the more than 5,000 Montessori schools across the country. We have attracted an accomplished team of faculty and staff and built campuses dedicated to learning. Our mission, our vision, our method, and our people are the means by which The Post Oak School helps students develop curiosity into interest, and interest into expertise. The Post Oak School has operated continuously since 1963 and is a non-profit corporation. With a faculty and staff of 85 and student enrollment of over 475, we provide a culturally diverse student population with a comprehensive Montessori education steeped in AMI heritage and fully accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest (ISAS) and at the high school level, by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO). The Post Oak School, accredited ...by the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest (ISAS), serves over 450 students from infants through high school providing a superior Montessori environment and dynamic learning experiences designed according to the developmental characteristics and needs of children. As the oldest Montessori school in the Southwest U.S., The Post Oak School, on two campuses, offers a comprehensive education from infancy through high school. In a non-sectarian setting, amid surroundings designed to support the principles that have made Montessori one of the most effective education systems in the world, our students develop the emotional, social, spiritual, physical, and intellectual skills to live the lives they were born to live.

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