Lead Montessori Preschool Teacher

Life Change Church

Life Change Montessori Preschool Teacher

Position Description:

Full Time Lead Teacher/ Multi-Aged Classroom Ages 3-6 yrs

Reporting Relationship

Report to Preschool Director

 Expectations:

• Walking out a personal relationship with Jesus as a way of life.
• Has a church home and personal Christian community and/or be a part of Life Change Church community (preferred).
• Has a working knowledge of the Bible and it’s stories to convey to children.
• Is willing to get to know and work with the Life Change Church staff and community.
• Is willing to portray a model of Christ-like love and grace to children, parents, staff.
• Be willing to work through any conflicts that may arise on the job in a Godly manner.
• Has a love for children and interacts with them patiently and respectfully.
• Is teachable.
• Able to move around physically on and off of the floor, go outside in most weather, move furniture, help children in difficult situations.
• Values/Facilitates Montessori philosophy and a loving Christian environment.
• Values learning and growing personally and professionally.
• Participates in continuing education in Montessori method and child development.

Roles:

• Support the growth of the class by active observation and note taking.
• Make decisions about circle time lesson plans and new work based on child/classroom observations.
• Consistently incorporate God’s stories and Scripture memory into lessons and circle time.
• Record children’s progress, keep data.
• Discuss any concerns or events of the class with the assistance teacher and director as is appropriate and most helpful for all.
• Facilitate/assist children with conflict.
• Help children with problem solving.
• Guide wandering children.
• Build nurturing relationships with the children and their families.
• Pray with and for the children consistently throughout the day.
• Model praying scripture and truth into children’s lives.
• Consistently incorporate God’s truths into daily conversation.
• Facilitate the love, grace, forgiveness and truths of God in the classroom towards students and co-workers.

Responsibilities:

• Open the building in the mornings scheduled to be there early and prepare the environment for the day.
• Responsible for the classroom environment to be orderly, clean, developmentally appropriate for the children enrolled.
• Guide, delegate and communicate classroom responsibilities to/with teacher assistant. Communicate ways she can best assist.
• Create and communicate clearly a routine with the teacher assistant.
• Greet children and parents individually at the door in the mornings.
• Responsible for a healthy snack to be set out for am and pm (our school has nutritional values for snacks to refer to).
• Responsible for the preparation of works for the children.
• Responsible to lead lessons at circle time, facilitate a minimum of a two hour work time and outdoor play time.
• Responsible to plan themes based on children’s interests, developmental needs as well as around Biblical themes and stories.
• Create action plans and give lessons based on classroom observations and note taking.
• Responsible to see that children are monitored at nap time.
• Responsible to see that the children are picked up by parents or people on their authorized pick up list. 
• Responsible to see that the classroom is clean and prepared for the following day..
• Responsible to communicate with parents at the door and in a monthly classroom newsletter. (This could be a part of a school newsletter written by the Director or might be separate from the Director’s newsletters).
• Hold parent/teacher conferences 1-2 times/year as appropriate.

Education and Experience  

• Classes/degrees in child development or related field is desired.
• Montessori Certification or working on certification is desired.
• Experience with children required.

Work Schedule:

40 hours/week: A set schedule is determined by need each semester.