Assistant Director
TMS is looking for a full time (32+hours) assistant director to assist the head of school in administrative duties as well as daily staffing requirements including maintaining classroom ratios, staff out, and breaks.
Ideal Candidate would be:
- Organized
- Driven and Passionate to work with a team of wonderful teachers
- Genuine presents
- Dependable and punctual
- Help the head of school manage daily staffing requirements including maintaining classroom ratios, staff out, and breaks.
- Help maintain a healthy clean environment
- Greet parents and guests ensuring good customer service at all times.
- Provide administrative and clerical support for school administration and classroom staff.
- Support enrollment needs such as answering questions and inquiries, processing paperwork, making phone calls
- Answer general questions regarding Treehouse and direct further inquiries to the appropriate person.
- Record, update and maintain information in the child and family information database.
- Provide logistical support for events and meetings.
- Provide back up for opening, closing, and emergencies.
- Other duties as assigned by School Director
- Acting director when Head of School is out
- Longevity
Requirements:
- Associates or Bachelors in Early Childhood Education with a Colorado State directors credential
- Montessori Experience Preferred
- 2+ years experience in an early child setting as administrative and understanding of the classroom
- Flexibility and an understanding of working with a diverse, inclusive community
- Must be motivated and able to work independently as well as part of a team
- Must be able to work the hours of the position based on the organization’s needs
- Must complete clearance of a background check, and pre-employment physical
Benefits:
- Paid professional development opportunities offsite
- Eligibility for health benefits, vision, dental, and short term disability at a discounted group rate
- Eligibility to participate in Life Insurance plan
- After 1 year of full-time employment, eligibility for IRA at 3% match
- 7 days of Paid Time Off per year
- Tuition Discounts
- Holiday Pay
Primary Montessori Guide 2019/2020
Job Description:
- Organized
- Assures that each family is warmly greeted upon arrival, and each child is gradually assisted to become a part of the community.
- Maintains a positive, calm attitude and a pleasant, soothing voice, and models this attitude and voice for parents and others working in the environment.
- Attends all training opportunities and staff meetings as provided and scheduled.
- Maintains a neat, well organized, and attractive prepared environment consistent with Montessori pedagogy.
- Participates in professional activities designated by the Head of School, which may include workshops, curriculum retreats, meetings, planning, and other professional pursuits.
- Attends all pre-announced staff meetings and professional sessions, including staff, level, committee and, evening parent meetings.
- Works to develop close and effective relationships with parents, including opportunities to discuss and understand the child’s individual progress; encourages them to bond with both the class and the larger school community; provides individualized tracking of student progress through Transparent Classroom a Montessori record keeping system.
- Follows the school’s policies and procedures for student evaluation and record keeping
Qualifications (Minimum and Preferred)
- Associates or Bachelors
- AMI, AMS, MACTE Primary Montessori Certification
- 2+ years experience in an early childhood setting
- Flexibility and an understanding of working with a diverse, inclusive community
- Must be motivated and able to work independently as well as part of a team
- Must be able to work the hours of the position based on the organization’s needs
- Must complete clearance of a background check, and pre-employment physical
Substitute Positions 2019/2020
Job Description
- Treehouse Montessori School is seeking applications for classroom substitutes:
- Toddler (1-3-year-olds), and Primary (3-6-year-olds)
- Classroom substitutes are responsible for the well-being of the children in the classroom as well as supporting the teacher with a variety of tasks
- Some of these tasks include classroom organization, cleaning, playground supervision, and more
- The substitute is principally supporting the lead teachers rather than directly teaching children. This role requires someone who is responsible, detail-oriented, and skilled with children in the classroom age group.
Qualifications (Minimum and Preferred)
- Applicants for 1-3-year-olds and 3-6-year-olds
- MUST hold a Colorado Early Childhood Teacher certificate, First Aid/ CPR and Universal Precautions.
- Montessori experience is preferred, but not mandatory.
Afternoon Program Coordinator (2:45pm-5:45pm) 2019/2020
Job Description
The primary responsibilities of the Curriculum Coordinator are:
- Cultivate an atmosphere of reciprocal respect and support for educators at the TMS
- Build positive relationships with educators, other school faculty and families
- Mentor, support and collaborate with educational staff to continually deepen their thinking about teaching and learning and their ability to construct meaningful and responsive learning experiences with the children
- Cultivate an environment that is built upon a strong image of children, families and educators with a view towards all individuals as having their own unique spark and possessing great capability and potential
- Ensure that differentiation among children’s learning styles and emotional needs are met by classroom teachers
- Work with teachers to fully utilize their environments as an inspiration for inquiry
- Collaborate with teachers in creating a materials library emphasizing open-ended and natural materials
- Work with Educators in observation and documentation of all children
- Help make children’s learning visible
- Support teachers in the creation of journey binders
- Monitor and ensure that education plans and other required documentation for children and classrooms are complete (panel documentation, portfolios, conference forms, etc.)
Qualifications (Minimum and Preferred)
- Applicants MUST hold an ECT certificate
- Two years of experience in early childhood education
- First Aid/ CPR and Universal Precautions.
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