Lead Teacher

Lead and Assistant Teacher Positions Available

Location:

Start Date:

August 4, 2025

• Convey a clear depth of knowledge of the cognitive, social, emotional, and physical developmental patterns of children from birth – five years of age.
• Create and facilitate an emergent curriculum based on observations and interactions with students. Act as a researcher alongside the students.
• Convey a clear depth of knowledge of developmentally appropriate practice as it relates to the areas of room arrangement, teacher/child interaction, and emergent curriculum.
• Fosters positive social and emotional growth in a play-based learning environment.
• Demonstrates proficiency in the skills needed to individually evaluate young children and make appropriate recommendations when special needs interventions are required.
• Demonstrates strong written and verbal communication skills with children, parents, colleagues, and supervisors.
• Has a clear understanding of the cognitive, social, emotional, and physical developmental patterns of children from birth – 5 years of age.
• Has a clear understanding of developmentally appropriate practice as it relates to the areas of room arrangement, teacher/child interaction and emergent curriculum.
• Demonstrates maturity and good judgment needed in emergency situations.
• Can physically meet the demands for caring for young children by demonstrating the ability to complete the following tasks:
  • Supervise, by sight and sound, all children in your care.
  • Routinely play on the floor or at small tables, as well as outside, in and around various play equipment with toddlers and young children.
  • Lift a young child (up to 40 lbs.) to a changing table or other adult level surface to change diapers and/or clothing or provide first aid and comfort.
  • Supervise and assist, as needed, children who are potty training or needing to use the bathroom.

• Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood, Elementary Education, Child Development, or Preschool Special Education preferred. Minimum of a Child Development Associate Credential (CDA),
• Minimum of two years of experience in the direct care of young children (Birth – 5 years).
• Prefer experience in the Reggio Philosophy
• Minimum of a Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential.
• Minimum of one year experience in the direct care of young children (Birth – 5 years)
• Prefer someone with a degree in early childhood, elementary, child development or special education.

Salary commensurate with experience
PTO offered
Opportunities for professional development

Northbrook Preschool has served children ages 1-6 for 43 years.

Our campus consists of 18 beautiful acres to explore!

Our school offers a child-centered, emergent, developmentally appropriate curriculum. We provide a loving and caring atmosphere in which children learn through actively engaged learning experiences. Children are allowed to mature and develop within their own time. Here at Northbrook Preschool, we believe that children are capable of creativity, incredible imagination, expressing their experiences in multiple ways, complex thinking, problem solving, being authors of their own learning, making choices, responsibility, independence, respecting others and the environment, listening to self and others, communicating ideas, needs and desires, expressing empathy and complex emotions, sharing, helping, engaging in community with others, and building relationships.

Using these beliefs as our guide, the emergent curriculum is based on positive, thought-provoking experiences. We focus on all aspects of a child’s development – cognitive, social and emotional, physical,and spiritual.

Together, we are empowering exceptional education.