Job Description
The Country Day School is seeking full-time teachers for the 2025-2026 school year.
The ideal candidate should have experience working with preschool-aged children.
CDS teachers are responsible for facilitating a warm and welcoming class environment. Prior teaching experience in a NAEYC-accredited program is valuable. Teachers are responsible for teaching a class of children in a manner consistent with the philosophy and the goals of the center. This includes:
- Treating each child with dignity and respect
- Planning activities which will encourage each child’s growth in the areas of emotional, social, cognitive, and physical development
- Recognizing and considering the individual needs of each child in relation to cultural and socio-economic background, disabilities, special talents and interests, style and pace of learning.
- Helping children learn to think creatively, to solve problems independently, and to respect themselves and others.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Being responsible for the arrangement, décor, and learning environment in the classroom.
- Construct curriculum (HighScope/Reggio Emilia) using developmentally-appropriate practices (DAP) as guidelines to meet the needs of the class and individual children, using prescriptive programming.
- Based on school wide assessments administered by the school psychologist, establish goals for each child in the areas of social, emotional, cognitive, creative, and physical development.
- Maintain on-going anecdotal records on each child.
- Prepare two written progress reports per year, prior to a fall and spring Parent-teacher conferences. Enter these into the child’s permanent file.
- Maintain a daily curriculum planning book as well as monthly plans which demonstrate strategies for meeting the developmental goals for the age-level in the class.
- Communicate regularly on an as-needed basis with parents regarding each child’s behavior and performance in school.
- Maintain all records and forms on each child in an up-to-date manner.
- Communicate and collaborate with co-teacher on classroom responsibilities such as lesson planning, newsletters, parent e-mail communication, Blackbaud, snack preparation, conference reports, etc.
- Establish classroom expectations and rules for children and utilize positive discipline strategies.
- Plan field trips where appropriate that are integrated into the curriculum and pre-approved.
- Attend all-hands meetings, age-level meetings, individual meetings.
Teachers must have earned a B.A. degree in early childhood education or a related field, a B.A. degree in a non-early childhood education field plus 12 college credits in courses related to early childhood education, or a CDA credential.
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