To be considered for employment as a preschool teacher, you should have patience, compassion, and energy to successfully guide a class of young children, each of whom will have different needs, abilities, aptitudes, and emotions. The best candidate will also have excellent administrative and organizational skills, in order to plan curriculums and track data on each child's progress. It is preferred that you be a practicing Catholic, so you can share, and teach our faith with students.
This Job will be posted until May 31st or until an Applicant is hired,
Rate of Pay: $27,500 – $37,500 Salary/year
Benefits: Comprehensive and Generous Benefits package that includes Health, Vision, Dental, Life, and Accident Insurances, Mental Health Services, Retirement, and more. Teachers are given 2 personal days and 10 sick days per year. 2 of those sick days may be used as additional personal days.
Normal Working Hours: 40 Hours per Week, Monday – Friday 7:30 AM – 4:00 PM with lunch during school year. Teachers are contracted to work 185 days per year and some evenings for school events.
Reports to: The Pastor, the Director of Pre-K, the Principal, and their representatives
Duties:
- Educating children about their faith,and fundamental concepts, such as colors, letters, numbers, and shapes.
- Encouraging social interactions between children and improving their self-esteem.
- Engaging in creative methods of learning, such as arts and crafts, supervised play, and storytelling.
- Planning comprehensive curriculums to address early childhood development needs.
- Instilling a sense of order and discipline in the classroom.
- Monitoring free time on the playground.
- Ensuring the classroom, and playground is a clean, safe, and organized environment.
- Preparing for lessons by gathering materials and setting up workstations.
- Communicating with parents to better understand the children's home lives and psyches.
- Maintaining data and progress reports for parents on each child's developmental progress for parent conferences.
- Nutritional support, setting up snacks, shopping for snacks, modeling healthy choices by eating with children at snack time.
