Posted: 06-Feb-26
Location: jackson heights, New York
Type: Full Time
Salary: $52,500 - $65,500
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Garden School is excited to announce the opening of a Lower Division Language Arts position for the fall of 2026. The position is focused on Language Arts in grades 4 - 6. Therefore, experience and expertise working with this age group as well as comfort with a range of texts and practices relevant to young readers and writers is required.
Garden School is an innovative and collaborative environment where teachers have smaller than usual rosters so they may focus on the interests and needs of bright and sophisticated individuals all of whom are college bound. Teaching faculty at Garden enjoy a great deal of autonomy in the material they cover in tandem with well-developed support structures to employ best practices in their discipline.
The English/Language Arts Department consists of eight faculty who teach reading and writing from grades 1 - 12, Deans who support faculty in different grades, and an English Department Chair. Garden School has a 102 year tradition of centering literacy and humanities in its program, and that continues to be true today. Our philosophy is such that the value of literature and drama are recognized across our entire program and permeates different aspects of our curriculum throughout the school.
At Garden School, faculty enjoy small classes (often 8 - 10 students in the intermediate grades) and are given the time and autonomy to help students develop effective reading routines, explore and analyze texts deeply, learn and apply important structures for writing, and demonstrate knowledge through a balance of traditional and creative endeavors. Garden’s recently adopted strategic plan calls on the school to grow innovative programs that cross disciplines and challenge the notion of how students engage with learning.
An ideal candidate will have experience teaching children in grades 4 - 6. They should demonstrate a passion for adolescent literature, a desire to explore and connect across disciplines, and a commitment for addressing the individual child in their instruction through novel and innovative experiences in the classroom.
If you enjoy working with an innovative team, employing best-practice in the classroom, helping bright students achieve their potential, and seeing every child as an individual, then please forward your cover letter and resume to the attention of Mary Petruso at mpetruso@gardenschool.org
An ideal candidate will have experience teaching children in grades 4 - 6. They should demonstrate a passion for adolescent literature, a desire to explore and connect across disciplines, and a commitment for addressing the individual child in their instruction through novel and innovative experiences in the classroom.