Teacher Assistant

MSLT is seeking passionate assistants that value the individual potential of each child and will create a welcoming and encouraging learning environment for our students. The Assistant is responsible to the Directress in preparing and maintaining the Montessori classroom and attending to the needs of the children.

The ideal candidate will bring a love for teaching, a positive attitude, and a genuine respect for the child that fosters their individual potential. This position extends into our full-day period, which provides the creativity for you to facilitate after-school enrichments.

Our current Assistant hours are 10:30am-5:30pm 5 days a week. Medical and dental health plans and PTO, paid holidays, and a 401k available for full-time employees. Pay is dependent on experience.

The Montessori School at Lone Tree is an early childhood school celebrating our 41st year of education in 2026. We have four beautiful classrooms with one directress, two assistants and 25 students in each. This is an opportunity to join our tight-knit community of faculty and families dedicated to peace, kindness, and respect for all living things.

• 1. Class Preparation and Class Time
  • Practical life area: prepare snacks, wet sponges, pouring exercises, polishing supplies, replenish art supplies, sharpen pencils, etc.
  • Check bathrooms for cleanliness and supplies, check cubie area and cozy corner.
  • Share in playground duty.
  • Assist in coat area as children arrive.
  • Be present in the classroom at assigned times. Personal needs are to be attended to before assigned classroom starting time.
  • Help maintain a calm and orderly work time.
  • Demonstrate materials only when you are sure how to use it correctly, and only when your Directress has indicated.
  • Scan classroom frequently. Be responsible for your assigned part of classroom management at all times.
  • Discuss with the Directress on the length of individual lessons and understand she/he is responsible for and in control of the classroom.
  • If not assisting with ‘line time’, begin cleanup of practical life areas.
  • Help prepare snacks when needed.
  • Meet weekly with the Directress and review children’s developmental progress.
  • Change environment exercises and make materials when requested.
  • Change practical life exercise monthly.
  • Care for all animals and plants on a daily basis.
• 2. Clean Up (may include some or all of the following; duties to be shared between classroom staff)
  • Take snack dishes to the kitchen.
  • Return all food and juice to the refrigerator.
  • Wash all table tops, snack table, snack serving table, hand washing table, clothes washing, dish washing, food prep area, and counter area with mild disinfectant.
  • Clean easel, polishing area and straighten aprons.
  • Straighten and clean up Practical Life pouring, shelves, and art shelves.
  • Wipe vinyl aprons clean, make sure the cleaning rack is straightened and that the mop is clean, sweep floor, tidy bathroom, check supplies.
  • Straighten and dust shelves in all other areas of the classroom, and edge shelves, Sensorial, Science, Language, Math, and straighten books in the library.
• 3. Lunch
  • Help children with lunch duties.
  • Oversee table preparation.
• 4. Other
  • Assistants may be required to attend Saturday functions, including, but not limited to, training programs, and outside seminars.
  • Assistants may be required to assist in programs and/or classrooms other than the one hired.
  • Review calendar dates for in-service days, parent meetings and other scheduled functions. Attendance at these functions is required. Attendance may also be required at unscheduled functions. As much
    notice as possible will be given as to specific dates.
• 5. Minimum Physical Requirements – Teaching and supervising preschool children are a physically and mentally taxing profession
  • Must be able to lift and carry children up to six years of age (50 lbs. or more) as required.
  • Must be able to carry and/or move shelving units, student tables and chairs as needed.
  • Must be capable of sitting and/or kneeling on the floor for extended periods of time.
  • Must be able to kneel and rise from a kneeling position on a continuous basis.
  • Must be capable of bending and/or squatting to a child’s…