Seeking Full-Time Montessori Toddler Teacher at Brixham Montessori Friends School in York, ME. This position begins on August 18, 2025 and includes two weeks of set-up and pre-service training.
Brixham Montessori Friends School is seeking a full-time toddler teacher for the 2025-2026 academic school year. The successful candidate will join a well-established, cohesive and team-oriented school community made up of three primary classrooms, a lower elementary classroom, and a toddler classroom. Located in York, Maine Brixham Montessori Friends School serves approximately 70 students from Seacoast Maine and New Hampshire. Small classroom sizes and low student to teacher ratios help ensure student needs are met in a holistic and inclusive learning environment. Brixham is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges and the American Montessori Society.
Brixham’s mission to honor each child’s individuality, creativity and intellectual potential through an enriched Montessori educational program guides its work with children and their families, and supports a vision to inspire a passion for lifelong learning where academic excellence, innovation, creativity and service-minded learning prepares children to be engaged and thoughtful stewards of the natural world.
If you are collaborative, innovative, and deeply committed to nurturing the whole child, please send a cover letter, resume, official transcripts and three written letters of reference to Alica Johnson-Grafe, Head of School, Brixham Montessori Friends School, 18 Brickyard Court, York, ME 03909 or by email, alica@brixhammontessori.org
Education and Training:
- AMS/AMI teaching credential at the toddler level
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in education, family studies or related field
- Experience or willingness to be trained in: Positive Discipline, Maine Early Learning and Development Standards (MELDS), Inclusion, Health and Safety, and Nature Connection
Prior Experience:
- Minimum of 3 years of related early childhood teaching experience
Qualifications:
- Excellent communication skills
- Attention to detail and organizational skills
- Ability to collaborate and work in a team environment
- Demonstrate initiative, curiosity, and ability to “think outside the box”
- High level of comfort with the outdoors
- Genuine love of children, families and all things in art, nature and music
- Values an inclusive, holistic and community-driven approach to teaching and learning
Role Expectations:
- Prepare a high-fidelity indoor Montessori learning environment
- Inspire a Montessori-prepared outdoor learning environment
- Create a system for daily observations and recordkeeping of skills, learning activities, and developmental milestones
- Communicate with parents and staff concerns or observations regarding child development in areas of social emotional, academic, and motor skills
- Work collaboratively and in partnership with co-teacher to plan and prepare Montessori learning activities, as well as share in the responsibility to write narratives for progress reports
- Ensure curriculum goals are met in regard to both Montessori teaching and learning standards
- Develop a deeply reflective teaching practice that challenges and promotes continuous growth and learning as a teacher and person
Compensation and Benefits:
- Salary range: $40,000-$42,000 (37 weeks per year /40 hours per week)
- Summer teaching option
- Retirement Match: 3% of salary
- Health Care Stipend: $200/mo
- Paid Personal and Sick Days: 10 days
- Paid Professional and Teacher Work Days: 10 days
- Professional Development Stipend: $500
- 60% tuition reduction for full-time employee
- Paid AMS membership and state teacher credentialing fees