Montessori Elementary Teacher- Border Star (2024-2025)

Kansas City Public Schools • Kansas City, MO

288d

About The Position

The Montessori Teacher is a guide who helps direct his/her students' activities academically, emotionally, and physically in a prepared Montessori environment that challenges each child to reach his/her full potential in these developmental areas, in accordance with Montessori philosophy and procedures in a public school setting.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education from four-year college or university.
• Missouri State Certification in Elementary Education.
• Montessori endorsement (an AMI or AMS Diploma) is required.

Responsibilities

• Develops lesson plans and manages the learning experiences for students to ensure the needs of the groups and individual students are met.
• Assists students toward self-directed learning and normalization.
• Maintains a neat, well-organized, and attractive prepared environment consistent with Montessori pedagogy.
• Work collaboratively with the Montessori Assistant around daily routines including snack preparation.
• Provide Montessori lessons to students.
• Collect data to track student performance.
• Counsels pupils when adjustment and academic problems arise.
• Discuss pupils' academic and behavioral attitudes and achievements with parents.
• Participate on program planning committees, and parent involvement activities.
• Instruct children in practice of personal cleanliness and self-care.
• Engage children in alternate periods of strenuous activity with periods of rest and light activity to avoid overstimulation and fatigue of students.
• Plan individual and group activities to stimulate growth in language, social, and motor skills such as learning to listen to instructions, playing with others and using play equipment.
• Help children develop habits of caring for their materials as well as classroom materials.
• Attend various meetings including, but not limited to: parent conferences, orientation, Professional Development sessions, and in service training sessions.

Benefits

• Health and Dental Insurance are provided.
• KCPS Defined Benefit Pension plan - mandatory 9% contribution is required from employee and matched by KCPS.
• Voluntary retirement savings plans are also available.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Educational Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees