Preschool Teacher
About The Position
As a Preschool Teacher at Stratford School, you will create a safe, nurturing, and engaging learning environment for children ages 3 to 5. You will foster curiosity, build confidence, and support each child’s development through thoughtful, structured instruction. Teachers design and implement lesson plans using a provided curriculum as a guide, delivering a well-organized and enriching classroom experience. You will also create a nurturing, responsive environment that promotes positive development of social and emotional competencies, support children with meals, snacks, and rest periods, collaborate with other faculty and staff members, communicate daily with parents or guardians, and maintain a well-organized and engaging classroom environment.
Requirements
- Educational background with 12 semesters or 18 quarter early childhood education units shall include courses that cover the general areas of early child development, child, family, and community, and program/curriculum or a bachelor’s degree in child development
- Patience, compassion, and a genuine love for working with young children
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Frequently walk, stand, sit, squat, stoop, reach, kneel, rise from the floor, twist, listen, read, write, and speak the English language.
- Often carry, lift, use repetitive or fine hand movements, and occasionally push, pull, or bend.
- Regularly hear and use clear vision with or without correction.
Nice To Haves
- Prior teaching experience with preschool students is preferred
Responsibilities
- Create a safe, nurturing, and engaging learning environment for children ages 3 to 5.
- Foster curiosity, build confidence, and support each child’s development through thoughtful, structured instruction.
- Design and implement lesson plans using a provided curriculum as a guide.
- Deliver a well-organized and enriching classroom experience.
- Create a nurturing, responsive environment that promotes positive development of social and emotional competencies.
- Support children with meals, snacks, and rest periods.
- Collaborate with other faculty and staff members.
- Communicate daily with parents or guardians.
- Maintain a well-organized and engaging classroom environment.
Benefits
- Health, vision, dental, 401K benefits
- Paid holidays and sick days
- Student Tuition Discount
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
