Primary Co-Teacher

Co-Teacher — The Marlowe School (Atlanta, GA)

Compensation: $28.00–$32.00 per hour
Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–2:45 p.m., during the regular school year

• First Aid and CPR Training (training provided if needed)
• Experience working with preschool-age children
• Experience in a Montessori environment is a plus, but first-year teachers are welcome

• Assists in providing a safe and healthy environment for the children
• Helps prepare and maintain an orderly, purposeful Montessori environment, including care and rotation of classroom materials
• Assists in implementing a developmentally appropriate curriculum that meets children's individual physical and intellectual needs
• Supports children's individual and small-group work with Montessori materials, encouraging concentration, independence, and self-correction
• Provides an appropriate environment, activities, and materials for children that enrich cognitive, language/motor development, experimentation, creative expression, and problem solving
• Works as a member of the classroom team to provide consistent, positive, age-appropriate guidance that enhances children's self-esteem and inner discipline
• Supports, implements, and complies with all program policies and procedures
• Maintains classroom, storage areas, and work spaces in an orderly fashion
• Performs regular sanitation/cleaning of the classroom, which may require the use of a broom, carpet sweeper, mop, vacuum, and cleaning products
• Understands that the confidentiality of all children and families is maintained, and handles confidential and sensitive information regarding children, families, and staff professionally, exercising appropriate discretion
• Observes, compares, monitors, and records children's development and behavior, and refers children with suspected concerns to the Lead Teacher
• All other duties as assigned by management

• Ability to pass a criminal history background check
• Ability to communicate in English (both verbally and in writing)
• Must be physically able to interact with preschool-age children
• Must have strong verbal, organizational, and interpersonal skills
• Must demonstrate a working and theoretical knowledge of child development, classroom, and behavioral management
• Must maintain a current CPR and First Aid certificate (training provided by The Marlowe School)

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear; stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; kneel or sit on the floor; lift approximately 50 pounds; and move quickly between multiple positions and levels
• Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position

737 Miami Circle
Atlanta, GA 30324