Come work at atlas academy!

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Overview

• We are seeking an exceptional candidate to open a new primary classroom at our fast-growing Montessori-based school in Dracut, MA.  

Details

• Start Date: September 2020
• Schedule: 8-4; school-year schedule with vacations.
• Compensation: Negotiable.

Qualifications

• Candidates will have their AMI or AMS Montessori Training certificate from a MACTE approved training course; along with a MA EEC Preschool Lead Teacher certificate.

Job Description

• Safety and Care
  • Teachers are responsible for ensuring the safety and exceptional care of every student.  
• Curriculum
  • Teachers are in charge of setting up their classrooms, including the materials on the shelves. We have a large storage room with a full set of Montessori materials to use, as well as a lot of other useful materials and supplies. Specifically, teachers must ensure that the following areas of the classroom are always ready to be used: practical life, sensorial, math, language, and culture. 
• Instruction
  • Teachers are responsible for setting their own class schedule.
  • Teachers are responsible for classroom management; and helping the children to learn the structure and routines of the classroom. 
  • Teachers are responsible for giving the students lessons; including individual, small group, and whole group lessons. 
• Assessment
  • Teachers are responsible for recording each student's progress in our online database called Transparent Classroom.
  • Teachers are responsible for keeping track of each child’s progress along each area of the curriculum.
• Parent Communication
  • Teachers are responsible for ongoing communication with parents.  
  • Teachers are responsible for uploading photos to Transparent Classroom for the parents to view.
  • Teachers are responsible for writing up two progress reports each year and sharing these reports during parents conferences.
• Professional Development
  • Teachers are responsible for scheduling their own professional development (compensated by the administration)
  • Teachers are also responsible for setting their own professional development goals and working with administration towards accomplishing those goals.   

Overview

• We are seeking exceptional candidates for a full time assistant teacher position for the fall.   

Details

• Start Date: September 2020.
• Schedule: 9-5
• Compensation: $13/hr to $15/hr.

Career Outlook

• Candidates should be interested in exploring education as a possible career choice.  There is potential to become a classroom teacher, as well as potential to become a Montessori trained teacher.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma

Training

• We offer on-the-job training on the basics of early education and care.
  • The first level of training is in how to maintain the basic safety and care of young children.
  • The second level of training is in our methods of educating young children.

  Job Description

• Assist the teacher in maintaining the classroom environment.
• Assist the teacher with classroom management.
• Assist the teacher with the basic care of the children.
• Assist children with toileting and diapering.
• Interact and engage with children.

Overview

• Apply online, complete a background check, and get added to our sub list!

Details

• Schedule: variable
• Compensation: $15/hr

Qualifications

• High School Diploma
• Experience with young children

Job Description

• Assist the classroom teachers with education and care.

Our goal is to provide an exceptional work environment for our employees.  

We view our administration as a support system which allows our staff to pursue their career goals and to enjoy their work.  

We utilize a number of different support mechanisms.  

Pay:  We recognize that the best way to appreciate staff is to pay them well.  And, as a growing school, we keep in mind that we need to share our growing success with our staff.  We recognize that a staff member’s level of pay should match their level of responsibility, so we try to not pile on responsibilities without any increase in pay.  Finally, in order to support our staff’s work-life balance, we offer a good amount of paid time off.  

Time:  The more responsibility a staff member has, the more time they might need to fulfill it.  We are careful not to overload our staff.  We give our classroom teachers at least an hour of prep time each day.  We encourage our staff to actually take a half-hour break, away from the kids, every day.  We also make sure to find a schedule for each staff member that best supports their work-life balance.

Training:  Each staff member, depending on their level of experience, requires different amounts of training.  Our administration seeks to find the right balance between guidance and autonomy: we want to make sure the staff have the guidance they need, but we also don’t want to be overbearing.  Sometimes we offer intensive training out of the classroom, sometimes an administrator will model certain interactions with children, or sometimes just a quick conversation will do the trick.  We always try to give reasons for our suggestions, so that our staff will be able to understand why we do things a certain way.  Finally, we support our staff in attending out-of-house staff development opportunities; and we especially offer support to our staff if they want to participate in an official Montessori training program.  

Feedback:  We recognize that staff members appreciate feedback to help them judge how they are doing.  We are always on the lookout for opportunities to give praise and we always communicate negative feedback in a manner that is respectful and supportive.

Communication:  We recognize that all relationships require good communication in order to thrive.  Our administration regularly checks in with staff to see how things are going, to see if they need anything, or to see if they’re unhappy with anything.  Also, since we are working together to achieve big goals in education, we like to have an ongoing dialogue about how things are going in the classroom.  We are trying to cultivate an “idea meritocracy”--a culture in which the best ideas win, no matter who has the ideas.  Our administration appreciates disagreement almost more than agreement, because we understand that disagreements are seeds of progress.  

Vision:  This last form of support might be the most important.  We communicate our vision with our staff from the very beginning; and we keep them informed of updates to the vision; and we make reference to our vision on a regular basis.  We want our staff to know that they are part of a big project in education.  Our goal is to build a school that educates children from birth to maturity.  Right now our school runs from toddlers up to 1st grade; and we’ll add one grade each year up through high school.  We keep our vision on the top of our minds to add a layer of inspiration, ambition, and motivation to our daily work.