We seek a joyful, hard-working, student-centered, flexible, and compassionate Montessori educator to join our School as a Lower Elementary (first through third grades) lead teacher. As an AMS- and SAIS-accredited school, lead teachers are required to have a MACTE-accredited Montessori certification (if not yet certified, there is the possibility to send new hires to training). While compensation varies based on experience and on training, compensation for a lead teacher with five years experience and a masters degree would range from $51,500 to $60,000.
Greensboro Montessori School is a thriving and financially secure, 50-year-old, toddler-to-junior-high, 275-student independent school. Our students have access to both our 10-acre main campus as well as our 37-acre satellite Land Campus, two activity buses, a team of cultural education faculty (physical education, Spanish, visual arts, and world music), a strong Student Support team, and a crew of environmental educators to work with students in our 20-year-old permaculture gardens and teaching kitchen. We have three Lower Elementary classrooms, each with two lead teachers for 23 to 25 students.
We seek someone who shares our belief that elementary students are filled with potential, ability, and capability; who knows students need adults who listen to them and believe in them; who is willing to gracefully roll up their sleeves and do whatever is needed to help nurture and challenge their students and support their team. Most important to us is that our new teammate:
Most important to us is that our new teammate:
- Is mission aligned, whether with Montessori training and experience, or at least similar experience, and training in a similar child-centered, constructivist, and experiential pedagogy.
- Is comfortable teaching multiple disciplines.
- Is a team player who flexibly and easily shares the many spaces, tasks, and responsibilities of teaching, in a team-teaching situation.
- Uses respectful language and a positive discipline approach in guiding students.
- Can give students space to safely make and learn from their mistakes.
- Has strong written and verbal communication with students, teammates, and families.
- Knows important learning happens outside the classroom, including on overnight trips, expeditions to the School’s wooded 37-acre Land Campus, through student performing arts productions, playing sports, or working with students after school when needed.
Education and qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in education, elementary education or a related discipline is required; Master’s degree is preferred.
- Elementary Montessori training from a MACTE-accredited Teacher Education Program or an openness to immediately beginning training is required for a lead teacher role.
- Experience working in a child-centered, constructivist elementary program is required, while experience in a Montessori classroom environment preferred.
- A commitment to equity and inclusion is required.
If you are from outside the Piedmont Triad area of North Carolina, know that this state is a fantastic place to live and that Greensboro is a wonderful, very affordable, medium-sized city. Relocation support is available.
If you think you have what we’re looking for, we would like to hear from you. Please email a cover letter and résumé to Ashley Daniels, director of human resources, at hr@gms.org.
Greensboro Montessori School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability (to the extent that reasonable accommodations are possible), marital status, socioeconomic status, military status, genetic information, or any other category or characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, financial aid policies, employment practices, and other school-administered programs.