Full-Time Child Care Teacher / Preschool Teacher: Nature-Based Preschool

New Frontiers Preschool • Grafton, WI

3d • $34,000 - $54,000 • Onsite

About The Position

New Frontiers Preschool is hiring a full-time Early Childhood Teacher to join our nature-based preschool team in Grafton, Wisconsin. NFP serves young children in a warm, joyful, active, and developmentally appropriate environment. Our program blends child-led exploration, play-based learning, school-readiness skills, social-emotional development, and daily outdoor/nature experiences. We are looking for teachers who are calm, dependable, professional, active, and genuinely engaged with children. This is not a passive supervision role. Our teachers are on the floor, outside, in conversation, helping children build skills, supporting routines, guiding behavior, and creating meaningful learning experiences throughout the day.

Requirements

• Candidates must be willing and able to complete all required child care staff documentation and trainings, including background check eligibility, staff health documentation, CPR/AED, abusive head trauma training, mandated reporter training, orientation, and continuing education requirements.
• Stand, walk, bend, squat, kneel, sit on the floor, and move throughout the day.
• Lift and carry up to 25 pounds when needed.
• Assist children with self-care routines.
• Walk on playgrounds, trails, uneven outdoor surfaces, and inclines.
• Participate in outdoor learning and play in a range of Wisconsin weather conditions.

Nice To Haves

• Wisconsin DCF Child Care Teacher qualification
• Wisconsin DCF Assistant Child Care Teacher qualification
• Wisconsin Registry profile/level documentation
• DPI teaching license
• CDA credential
• Early childhood education coursework, diploma, associate degree, or bachelor’s degree
• Experience in a licensed child care center, preschool, early childhood classroom, or similar setting

Responsibilities

• Plan and lead age-appropriate lessons, activities, and classroom routines.
• Support children’s social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and self-care development.
• Incorporate nature, outdoor exploration, hands-on learning, art, music, literacy, movement, science, and play into the classroom experience.
• Actively engage with children indoors and outdoors.
• Help children with meals, rest time, toileting, diapering, dressing, transitions, and daily routines.
• Use positive guidance, redirection, calm communication, and developmentally appropriate expectations.
• Communicate professionally with families during drop-off, pick-up, and approved written communication channels.
• Maintain a safe, clean, organized, and welcoming classroom.
• Work collaboratively with co-teachers, directors, and support staff.
• Follow NFP policies, Wisconsin child care licensing requirements, and required health/safety procedures.

Benefits

• Competitive pay based on qualifications and experience
• Discounted employee tuition, subject to enrollment availability and benefit policies
• Paid sick time
• Personal time
• Paid holidays
• Continuing education reimbursement
• Supplemental insurance options through Aflac, such as dental, vision, and short-term disability
• Potential sign-on and/or performance-based bonuses
• Medical health insurance plans (offered soon)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree