Mill Creek Early Childhood Program Hiring for 3-5 year old teacher. No set curriculum, small ratios, loves the outdoors! Job at Batavia, IL Full Time

Think of this: 8 children in your classroom, learning and curriculum based on your students’ interests, spending time outdoors, a schedule created based on your students and getting back to the reason you became a teacher….the children.

Here are the details:

Mill Creek ECP is guided by the Reggio Emilia-inspired principles and believes that children are natural learners and investigators. Children need time to explore and discover their world. As a Reggio inspired program our teachers partner with students to dive deeper into big questions. Our teachers use the environment as the third teacher and engage in research-based practices while infusing the arts and academics into passion-driven questions and curiosities.

Hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30am to 5:30pm

• Collaborate with co-educators to create a vibrant student centered Reggio-inspired experience and participate in advancing the school vision.
• Empower students to create questions and develop projects that lead them to create, invent and express their thinking.
• Create a student-centered classroom environment where student passion and interest is valued and empowered, where relationships serve as the foundation of the community.
• Build a classroom community where social/emotional/behavioral development is built on relationships and a mindset for growth.
• Apply research-based teaching strategies to the design of instruction, accept growth feedback with positivity and continually pursue refining teaching skill.
• Curate documentation (floorbooks, child portfolio’s, and brightwheel) of student thinking and creative process and coach student projects and monitor progress through evidence of mastery.
• Collaborate with co-educators, Pedagogista, and others to develop driving questions, problems and design challenges based on academic standards.
• Collaborate with colleagues to assess effectiveness and promote organizational learning.
• Seek to continually grow as a Reggio inspired educator, an innovator and accomplished instructor by engaging in consistent goal setting, research, and growth towards the practice and craft of teaching and learning. (minimum of 15 hours/yr)
• Ensure safety and supervision of the children while allowing developmentally appropriate risk assessment.
• Establish and maintain relationships with children, families, and Co-Educators
• Complete observations for individual portfolios (2x’s a month), authentic assessment tool (3x’s a year) and parent-teacher conferences (2x’s a year).
• Attend monthly school meeting and participate in Mill Creek ECP family/school events.

Unlimited PTO and full benefits package

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $15.50 – $19.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

COVID-19 considerations:
Following CDC guidelines

Work Location: One location