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This is a full-time on-site role for a Montessori Lead Teacher, located in McDonough, GA. The Montessori Lead Teacher will be responsible for planning and implementing Montessori curriculum, creating engaging and effective lesson plans, and observing and assessing student progress. The Teacher will also manage classroom dynamics, maintain a safe and nurturing environment, and communicate effectively with students, parents, and staff. The role involves training assistant teachers and ensuring adherence to Montessori principles and guidelines.

Qualifications

Experience in Lesson Planning and Education
Strong Communication and Teaching skills
Training and mentoring abilities
Montessori certification or relevant experience in a Montessori setting
Patience, creativity, and a passion for fostering a love for learning
Ability to work collaboratively with staff and families
Bachelor's degree in Education or related field

Who Are We:

We are a gifted and talented family of creators and innovators empowering those around us to do the same.

Our Pillars:

• Focus on Leadership: We strive to cultivate the leaders of tomorrow. We teach by example and constantly model living with

integrity and courage, eagerly learning, appreciating and showing gratitude, demonstrating persistence, excelling, and

respecting and helping others and the environment.

• Education for the Whole Child: We help children grow academically, intellectually, socially, emotionally, culturally,

creatively, and physically by providing an authentic Montessori education that includes multi-age classrooms, engaging

hands-on materials, an emphasis on intrinsic motivation, student-led projects, dual-language development, rigor, and

learning beyond the classroom that prepares children for high school, college, the 21st century and lives as leaders in their

families and communities.

• Teachers as Leaders and Innovators: Our teachers are empowered to shape curriculum within the scope outlined by the

curriculum coordinator and school culture and contribute to ongoing developments in the field of education through

research and the dissemination of knowledge.

• Families as Partners: We partner with families to provide the most nurturing environment to help children grow into their

fullest potential, so that they can pursue lives full of meaning and joy.

• Continuous Improvement: We strive for continuous growth through a process of Assessing/Analyzing/Acting. We hold

ourselves and others to high expectations, engage in self-reflection, and take personal responsibility for ensuring success for

each child.

• Diversity and Teamwork: We believe that children learn best in racial, culturally, and socioeconomically diverse

environments, so that they are prepared to act as global citizens and leaders. As such, we commit to working together to

create a welcoming and inclusive environment for all members of our diverse community.

Mission Statement:

To guide your children through the discovery of who they are into the realization of who they can become as they grow into the

innovators of their own futures.

Values:

• Integrity

• Compassion

• Courage/Valor

• Commitment

• Curiosity

• Respect

Schedule 1: Teacher Responsibilities and Rights

Responsibilities will include, but not be limited to, the following:

Hours

• Arriving at the classroom by 7:15 a.m. – 4:30

• You must complete all closing duties and closing duties daily checklist and check out with the Administrator on duty.

• Staying at school one day per week until 5:00 p.m. for regular meetings with Staff, including but not limited to, with Director,

One day a week.

• Staying one day a week till 6:00 p.m. for support with an after-school activity or event and closing duties.

• Adherence to daily schedules.

• Adherence to audit processes for schedules and attendance.

Environment

• Setting up classroom, including furniture, works, aesthetics, and classroom management materials, during staff work weeks

before the start of every day and at the end of every day.

• Adhering to the Heritage Montessori Classroom Materials List.

• Updating Environment as needed to adhere to classroom needs and changes.

• Assisting in dismantling, packing and cleaning classroom during staff work weeks at end of term and during Mid-Winter

Break January and End of Year May.

• Maintaining a clean, attractive, and user-friendly classroom.

• Guiding the children to keep the environment clean through the Heritage Grace and Courtesy Curriculum.

• Maintaining a clean and inviting environment throughout all (including hallways, hooks, cubbies, bathrooms) of the facilities used by the students.

• Upholding appropriate conduct in behavior and dress in the school and its environments, as described in staff handbook.

• Assisting with designated maintenance projects in your assigned classroom.

• Adherence to audit processes for classroom readiness, effectiveness, cleanliness, and efficiency.

Planning and Meetings

• Preparing projects/lessons for the next week before the end of the previous weeks school day.

• Coordinating with Director a reasonable schedule of weekly meetings to prepare curriculum, discuss classroom function, individual students.

• Weekly meetings 4:15-4:45 with Lead Teacher of all classes as assigned.

• Assisting in monitoring progress of the students through daily individualized record keeping sufficient to provide periodic assessments of the children to Director and to parents upon request.

• Staff Work Weeks and In-Service days are 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated on calendar or scheduled verbally in writing.

• Adherence to audit processes for planning and meeting engagement.

Curriculum and Materials

• Assisting in creating necessary materials or submitting requisition forms for materials needed to begin the school year during the preceding summer.

• Providing classroom management and individualized Montessori instruction for children based upon their progress and learning materials and lessons to begin taking on role as teacher.

• Assisting and working with planning and execute a minimum of 3 trips for the year related to topics being discussed in class. Trips for the upcoming year to be planned before June 30th

• Assisting in facilitating “going out” trips with the help of parent volunteers throughout the year based on student interests and research.

• Assisting in maintaining the quality of the children’s learning experience by providing a quality Montessori environment in the room and updating or enhancing materials as needed.

• Assisting in preparing and submitting requests for new material. This must be done at least a week before such materials are needed. Materials that need to be ordered need to be requested 6 weeks before they are needed.

• Working with other Heritage Montessori School personnel and volunteers to develop the curriculum in advancement of the schools mission and values.

• Direct alignment with our 16 yr scope and sequence, specifically in creating a symbiotic schedule with other departments.

• Assisting in Curriculum Scope and Sequence planning.

• Adherence to audit processes for curriculum alignment and materials list and materials usage.

Communication with Parents Staff.

• Participating in parent-teacher conferences three times during the year, plus additional meetings with individual parents as reasonably necessary.

• Assisting in planning and execution of 4 parent education nights 4:30 – 6:00 based on needs determined by school administration.

• Assisting in writing progress reports on the academic and social growth of the students twice per year, once in preparation for the mid-year conference and once in preparation for the end-of-year conference.

• Assisting in writing summaries of classroom activity each month for submission to the newsletter.

• Assisting in preparing students and a venue for parent events.

• Utilizing the Heritage App and School Email for all communication with parents No use of School Social Media Accounts, Private Business Phone Calls outside of school hours unless requested by Employer in writing.

• Adherence to audit processes for communication process alignment.

Professional Development

• Observing at other approved Montessori Schools 1 time during school year.. Employer will schedule observations at a school approved by Montessori Coordinator and submit desired date at least two weeks prior to observation.

• Employee agrees to adhere to all Heritage policies.

• Employee agrees to 1 annual review to be given upon signing of contracts and 1 annual review upon or non-renewal of contracts.

• Employee agrees to audits for all relevant processes involving school students, Employee, parents, or any other engagement with the community inside or outside of the school

Sick/Personal Days

• Notifying Director (directly by confirmed phone call, not by phone message) if any change in schedule occurs or is anticipated. 24 hrs. before absence requested. Day of Notice can lead to Immediate write up.

• No notice is cause for immediate Termination.

• 5 Paid Sick days allotted.

• Employee will be docked pay after 5 Paid Sick days are used.

• Docked pay will be made through the Accounting and HR Departments.

Summer

• Employee agrees to work 4 of the 7 Summer Camp weeks.

• All duties above are required for Summer Camp.

• Arrival and Departure Hours for Summer Camp 7:45-4:00

Rights will include the following:

Benefits

• 5 paid sick days

• Lunch program adult $3,000

• Lunch program 1 child $2,500

• Tuition Scholarship 2 Children $29,800. Tuition Benefit requires an employee to work in Aftercare 1 day a week

Breaks, Vacations, Sick Days and Support

• Employee will be entitled to a break of 30 minutes per day.

• Employee will be entitled to up to 5 paid sick/personal days during the academic year. Plus 5 additional paid days totaling

• Employee will be entitled to 6 of the 7 weeks of the vacation weeks listed on the Heritage Montessori school calendar. Holiday weeks of Thanksgiving and Christmas are considered paid vacation weeks excluded from required working days. Specific

weeks required to work will be outlined in addendum B. Employee will also work dates that specify staff in-service or professional development days.

• Employee will be required to work the following week after the last day of school for each Academic year.

• Employee will be entitled to submit to Director requests for “comp” days as compensation for extraordinary time investment beyond regular work hours. Examples might include numerous late nights or multiple weekends spent working or preparing. Requests will be reviewed by Director, and “comp” days may be authorized as additional personal days withpay.

• Employee will be entitled to administrative support in the form of (a) consultations with Head of School, and (b) securing

existing materials and ordering of new materials as necessary by Administrators.

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