Montessori Elementary Teacher- Border Star Job Kansas City area,Missouri USA,Education / Teaching

KANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Job Description

Job Title: Montessori Elementary Teacher (1st-6th)

Job Title Code: 880

Salary Grade: T01 –T06

Department: Curriculum, Instruction and Professional Development

Reports To: Building Principal

FLSA Status: Exempt

Date Prepared: November 2017 - Reviewed 2019

PURPOSE OF JOB:

The Montessori Teacher is a guide who helps direct his/her students’ activities academically, emotionally, and physically in a prepared Montessori environment that challenges each child to reach his/her full potential in these developmental areas, in accordance with Montessori philosophy and procedures in a public school setting.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

Develops lesson plans and manages the learning experiences for students to ensure the needs of the groups and individual students are met.

Assists students toward self-directed learning and normalization.

Maintains a neat, well-organized, and attractive prepared environment consistent with Montessori pedagogy.

Works collaboratively with the Montessori Assistant around daily routines including snack preparation. Provides Montessori lessons to students.

Collects data to track student performance.

Counsels pupils when adjustment and academic problems arise.

Discusses pupils’ academic and behavioral attitudes and achievements with parents.

Participates on program planning committees, and parent involvement activities.

Instructs children in practice of personal cleanliness and self-care.

Engages children in alternate periods of strenuous activity with periods of rest and light activity to avoid over stimulation and fatigue of students.

Plans individual and group activities to stimulate growth in language, social, and motor skills such as learning to listen to instructions, playing with others, and using play equipment.

Helps children develop habits of caring for their materials as well as classroom materials.

Attends various meetings including, but not limited to: parent conferences, orientation, Professional Development sessions, and inservice training sessions.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from a four-year college or university.
Missouri State Certification in Elementary Education.
Montessori endorsement (an AMI or AMS Diploma) is required.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This job requires that the employee be able to: sit, stand, walk, speak, hear, use hands, fingers, reach with hands and fingers; bend, stoop, lift objects of at least ten pounds. Job requires the employee occasionally to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Visual ability requires mono and color vision, close vision, distance vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:

Length of work year: 8 hours per day; 5 days/week; 185 work days

Benefits:
Health and Dental Insurance are provided.

KCPS Defined Benefit Pension plan – mandatory 9% contribution is required from employee and matched by KCPS;
Voluntary retirement savings plans are also available.

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