Mandarin Montessori Infant and Toddler Teacher

Description

Pine Street School is hiring an Infant and Toddler Teacher for the 2025-2026 school year beginning August 1, 2025.

ABOUT PINE STREET SCHOOL

Pine Street School, a member of Green Ivy Schools, is an internationally-minded community dedicated to providing an innovative, engaging, multilingual, and multicultural education that inspires and empowers our students to take mindful action for equity and the environment, making a positive impact on the world. We prioritize authentic student learning, activism, community engagement, and ethical enthusiasm for emerging technology. We offer both Spanish and Mandarin immersion programs for students in grades preschool through 8th grade.

ABOUT YOU

• You are knowledgeable about the Montessori curriculum and philosophy and are able to successfully employ highly effective teaching practices
• You love to create welcoming and stimulating learning environments for infants and toddlers
• You are experienced in creating works – that are in line with the philosophy – intended to specifically teach language.
• You enjoy collaborating with fellow teachers to co-create curriculum
• You are dedicated to internationalism and anti-bias teaching practices and maintain a positive school culture for everyone in the community
• You have exceptional communication skills with children, teachers and parents and a nurturing, supportive approach
• You are trustworthy flexible, and dependable

ROLE OF THE MONTESSORI TODDLER TEACHER

• Create welcoming, functional, safe, attractive, de-cluttered, stimulating and physically comfortable learning environments
• Assist children during bathroom or hygiene-related activities
• Work with the team to establish classroom procedures and protocols and shared responsibilities across the school (i.e. laundry duty, pantry clean-up, library organization, etc.)
• Conduct parent information sessions, parent education events, and attends parent social events that build community – most of which take place in the evenings
• Maintain observation records of student assessment over the year
• Communicate with parents, both formally and informally
• Participate collaboratively in curriculum development, program planning, school evaluation processes, and other faculty meetings as required by the school administration
• Participate in in-service educational activities provided by the school and/or self-elected professional growth activities.

BENEFITS

• Health, Dental, Vision, Disability and Life insurance plans
• Generous paid time off policies
• 401K retirement account with up to 4% matching
• Tuition discounts to children of employees
• Professional development and training
• Professional, dedicated team of teachers who care deeply about our work

Requirements

• Montessori teaching experience required
• Education: Bachelors Degree in Education or a related field (Masters preferred)
• Experience: Minimum of two (2) years teaching experience
• Fluent in English (able to successfully attend workshops, read professional information and work collaboratively in the language.)
• Fluency in the language of instruction (English, Mandarin or Spanish)
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Legally authorized to work now and in the future in the United States