OVERVIEW

Teachers play a key role, setting the tone by valuing each child and family as individuals. By modeling responsibility, welcoming, and caring, teachers foster children’s Jewish identity. TBS Children’s Center teachers have the educational qualifications, dispositions, knowledge, dedication to learning, and professional commitment necessary to promote children and their families as they learn and develop. Teachers work together with their teaching team to develop, implement, and evaluate the classroom pedagogy, to provide a quality educational program reflecting the goals and values of the school. Teachers monitor the development and learning of the children and partner with families in sharing this information. Teachers also supervise and provide guidance to substitutes and classroom volunteers.

WHAT MAKES YOU GREAT FOR THIS ROLE

The following statements feel like they were written to describe you:

• Teaching young children brings you joy. You value and promote children’s play and are curious about the child’s perspective. You look forward to active days of creativity and learning.
• You understand child guidance in a developmental context and are alert to the learning process for each child. Your working knowledge of the growth and development of young children brings an ability to utilize this information in the classroom
• You ask for help, accept suggestions, and offer guidance to others.
• Communication with families is important to you and you seek to teach adults as well as children. You are committed to being a positive source of guidance for children and families.
• Flexible by nature, you listen to children, adapting the curriculum to their needs and interests. You adapt your teaching style to the needs of the school as a community system.
• You are diligent about health and safety, offering emotional and physical comfort and caring to your young students.
• Learning is in your nature and you are a lifelong learner yourself, taking time for regular reflection and self-examination. You seek to expand your perspective and the perspectives of others.
• You are able to participate actively in children’s learning. Our hands-on, active approach to learning includes frequent reaching, stooping, sitting on the floor, bending, occasional lifting and carrying, and supervising children’s active play.
• You have a teaching certificate from the Department of Early Education or the credentials needed to obtain one.

COMPENSATION

Our transparent and equitable faculty compensation model includes steps to account for experience, education, longevity, and performance.

*The base salary is for Full Time Equivalent (FTE), which is 40 hours per week, 52 weeks per year. This is adjusted proportionally based on each educator’s schedule. For example, if your schedule is 30 hours per week, 52 weeks per year, your position would be .75 FTE and your base salary would be 75% of the listed base salary. Additional compensation for education and experience are also adjusted based on your FTE. For example, if you have a Master’s degree and you work .75 FTE, you would receive $750, which is 75% of the $1,000 listed.

**The Master Teacher designation recognizes superior performance with a financial reward. A Master Teacher is an educator who demonstrates consistent excellence in five different categories of practice. The Master Teacher Rubric outlines the criteria for earning the designation. Generally, it requires at least three years of teaching at TBS to be eligible for the Master Teacher designation.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Ability to actively participate in children’s play and care including frequent reaching, running, and sitting on the floor and in small chairs. Hearing and speaking to exchange information in person and by phone; seeing to read and prepare documents, monitor children for safety, and perform assigned duties; sitting or standing for extended periods of time; dexterity of hands and fingers to operate tools and equipment; kneeling, stooping, bending at the waist, and reaching overhead, above the shoulders and horizontally, to retrieve and store supplies; occasionally lifting moderate weight objects including children.

TO APPLY

Email us at jobs@tbsneedham.org.