Childcare Teacher

Yellowstone Club’s Employee Childcare department is currently seeking candidates for a Lead Teacher. This is a full-time year-round position located in Bozeman, Montana.

The purpose of the Lead teacher is to supervise operations in the employee childcare facilities and ensure standard operating procedures are followed.

Responsibilities

• Model and teach developmentally appropriate behavior and interactions between children and adults.
• Providedaily care to meet the needs of every child enrolled.
• Manage day-to-day classroom schedules, routines, and activities.
• Track and assess each child’s progress and share that information with parents.
• Help children to reach developmental milestones through active play.
• Maintain a clean, organized, and tidy space.
• Communicate with families' daily updates and necessary information.

The right candidate will:

• Understand Montana’s early childhood requirements and are current with the MTECP registry .
• Have early childhood education training, experience, and understand developmentally appropriate practice .
• Familiarity with the Waldorf style of early childhood education.
• Demonstrate strong leadership and organizational skills .
• Have flexibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to building this new program .
• H ave a passion for getting children outside, modeling care and concern for natural environments, believing that nature is a powerful, meaningful teacher that is necessary for children’s overall development .
• Be a co-learner with children, believing that the best curriculum emerges out of children’s experiences and ideas .
• Comfort in using daily responsive planning to follow these child-initiated learning opportunities .
• Believe that children are capable, competent individuals with ideas worthy of being heard, and using their voices in planning and decision-making .
• Demonstrate an understanding of asking open-ended questions, eliciting, and extending children’s ideas, addressing children’s physical and emotional needs, helping children resolve conflicts, and providing direct and meaningful feedback to children .
• Be comfortable emphasizing play and discovery over didactic instruction, being an active participant in that play and discovery and having an attitude of yes .
• Differentiate instruction based on the academic and social-emotional needs of each student .
• Use non-violent communication with students, staff, and parents, grounded in kindness and celebration of students .
• Actively listen, get curious, and ask questions when communicating with others .
• Partner with students, parents, and fellow teachers to create developmental goals for students and measure their progress through clear, narrative assessment .
• Be an empathetic leader who values the lived experience of all community members, including students, parents, and staff .
• Be a social justice and equity champion who actively seeks to create equitable and inclusive learning spaces .

License/Certification:

• Current CPR/First Aid Certification or can be obtained within
  30 daysof hire.
• Child Development Associate Certification or degree in education (Preferred).
• Current on the MTECP Registry.

Yellowstone Club offers great benefits including:

• Free transportation to and from Bozeman
• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
• Discounted Ski Pass
• Employee Ski Days
• Complimentary shift meals
• 401k eligibility and bi-weekly match
• Access to onsite fitness center 24/7
• Discounted Employee Housing in Big Sky or Bozeman
• Discounts to over 1000 retailers through ADPLife Mart
• End of season Employee Appreciation Day and retail sale

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