Posted: 14-Jan-26
Location: Aspen, Colorado
Type: Contract
Categories:
Termed 1st Grade Assistant Teacher
Spring Semester 2026
Salary: $4000/monthly
Aspen Country Day School is known for its intentional approach to challenging and nurturing children as they build confidence, resilience, and joy in learning. Vibrant academic, arts, and outdoor programs led by dedicated teachers give students a solid foundation for lives of meaning and purpose. At its newly redeveloped campus in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, the school welcomes approximately 300 students from throughout the Roaring Fork Valley. It is accredited by the Association of Colorado Independent Schools and a member of the National Association of Independent Schools.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Support teaching and planning in the core elementary disciplines
- Execute instructional strategies designed by the homeroom teacher
- Assist with classroom management in concert with the school’s core values and philosophy
- Supervise play areas during break, recess, and lunchtime
- Participate in Outdoor Education trips in fall and spring and ski days in the winter months
- Adhere to guidelines, procedures, and policies in the Employee Handbook
- Communicate professionally and effectively with parents, colleagues, and administrators, which includes both email and phone communications
- Assist with fall classroom move-in and spring move-out; attend required in-service days, meetings, and training sessions
- Stay current of school-wide information as provided
Assistant Teachers will have:
- Teaching experience preferred in elementary school
- A love of young children and early childhood education
- Professional desire to develop or continue to develop teaching skills in the academic disciplines as well as in the on-going work of social/emotional development of children
- Understanding of child development and the importance of stoking curiosity in all learners
- Ability to work in a collegial and highly collaborative environment
- Skill in the use of technology: including, but not limited to Google Workspace, student information systems, Zoom
- A growth mindset, active sense of humor, warm personality, creative approach, and excellent organizational and communication skills
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
Work Environment
- Classroom based
- Collaborative, mission-driven school community
NOTE: This position requires a pre-employment criminal background check. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check.
Physical Demands
- Visual Acuity: Ability to bring objects into focus.
- Balancing: Maintaining equilibrium.
- Bending: Bending or position oneself to move an object from one level to another.
- Carrying: transporting or moving an object.
- Crouching: Bending body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
- Climbing: Ascending or descending stationary objects.
- Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination: Performing work through using two or more body parts or other devices.
- Gripping/Grasping: Ability to apply pressure with fingers and palm.
- Handling: Seizing, holding, grasping, through use of hands, fingers, or other means.
- Hearing: Perceiving and comprehending the nature and direction of sounds.
- Kneeling: Bending legs at knees to come to rest on knee or knees
- Lifting: Moving objects weighing no more than 10 pounds from one level to another.
- Pushing/Pulling: Ability to use upper extremities to exert force in order to press, draw, drag or haul objects in a sustained motion.
- Reaching: Extending the hands and arms or other device in any direction.
- Repetitive motions: Making frequent or continuous movements.
- Sitting: Remaining in a stationary position.
- Standing: Ability to sustain position for a period of time.
- Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.
- Talking: Communicating ideas or exchanging information.
- Walking: Ability to move to traverse from one location to another.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This job description is designed to indicate the general nature of the work. Duties and responsibilities may change at any time with or without notice.
To Apply
If you are interested in this position, please submit a resume to hr@aspencountryday.net.
Aspen Country Day School provides equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees without regard to age, race, sex, color, religion, national origin, disability, military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by applicable law. The school’s statement of diversity, equity, and inclusion is here.