This opening calls for specific teaching qualifications set by the school.
CalWest client school in the San Francisco Bay Area seeks a Lead Teacher for an immediate opening or the 2024 – 2025 school year, whichever comes first.
CalWest Required Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s Degree and/or other educational requirements listed on the job description
- Requisite skills commensurate with the position
- A reasonable commuting distance to the CalWest client school, or a willingness to relocate
- Authorization to live and work in the United States
Client School Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree preferred
- Elementary classroom teaching experience (at minimum 3 – 5 years) in all curriculum areas
- Familiarity with stages of child development
- Ability to develop curriculum following student interest and school themes
- Responsiveness to the needs of a spontaneous, child-oriented environment
- Ability to write and communicate well
- Strong collaboration skills
- Personal contemplative practice encouraged
Responsibilities
- A willingness to engage in a transformative process: to question personal beliefs and prejudices, and to critically examine his/her relationships with students;
- Warmth and kindness, firm expectations, knowledge of child development, and the conscious use of language in a school setting;
- Equipped with a growth mindset characterized by ongoing personal and professional development, while leading children to discover new capacities in themselves.
- Follow progressive and constructivist principles of education
Salary Range
$78,000 – $ 85,000
