Kindergarten Team Teacher Details

Kindergarten Team Teacher

St. Andrew's Episcopal School - Austin, TX

Employment Type : Full-Time

Kindergarten Team Teacher

St. Andrew’s Episcopal School seeks a Kindergarten Team Teacher for the 2022/23 school year.
The ideal candidate is a teacher with student-centered pedagogy, a strong ability to connect with early elementary-aged students, a social justice orientation, and expertise in planning experiential learning opportunities. We seek candidates who are highly motivated, hard-working, collaborative, flexible; demonstrate a desire to learn; show initiative and have a sense of humor.

• Perform specific duties and tasks as assigned
• Provide individual and small group instruction with the explicit purpose of student differentiation
• Help students focus on self-management and community-oriented conduct
• Prepare instructional materials, spaces, and resources
• Collaborate with kindergarten team in the development of a conducive learning environment that is developmentally appropriate
• Lead and support the planning of daily and long-term lessons, projects, and experiences
• Advocate for and support student learning, needs and contexts
• Escort students to different spaces
• Support in the evaluation and assessment of student work, portfolios, and projects
• Maintain student records, data, and samples
• Collect and display material that is relevant to student progress, performance, and interest
• Teach and co-teach in a variety of contexts and over diverse topics and interests

We are a Lower School that strives to

• Be a community that understands that each and every child deserves an educational experience rooted in human dignity and the child, not the program, is most important.

• Be a faculty that recognizes the importance of the hidden curriculum, and that what we model each day with one another is deeply important to the development of every child.

• Be a faculty that values participation, learning outcomes, and engaging experiences over compliance and rigidity.

• Build a learning culture that encourages independence, joy, exploration, and question posing to gain an understanding of themselves and the world around them.

• Be a faculty that embraces the role of lead learner, coach, mentor, witness, and teacher with enthusiasm and joy.

Our Mission
The mission of St. Andrew’s Episcopal School is to provide an enriched academic program within a Christian environment emphasizing the fulfillment of each student’s potential.

Diversity Statement
St. Andrew’s Episcopal School is committed to building a beloved community of learning that embraces diversity, champions justice, and honors the dignity of every human being.

About Us
St. Andrew’s is a co-educational Episcopal K-12 day school, enrolling approximately 970 students on two campuses in Austin, Texas. The school strives to help young people from diverse racial, religious, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds to achieve their potential not only in intellectual understanding but also in aesthetic sensitivity, physical well-being, and moral decisiveness so that they may lead productive, responsible lives, not only for themselves but also for their community.
For more information about St. Andrew’s School in Austin, please access our website: www.sasaustin.org.

To Apply
Please submit your resume, cover letter and responses to the questions listed below to Michelle
Roe, Director of Finance and Human Resources. Candidates who contribute to the cultural and ethnic diversity of the community are encouraged to apply.

St. Andrew's is committed to providing equal opportunity in all personnel actions and in the administration of all policies and programs.

St. Andrew's employs individuals without regard to race, color, nationality, ethnicity, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or sexual orientation as protected by federal, state, or local law.

Please answer the following questions and submit your written responses along with your resume, cover letter, and any other relevant materials.

1. The work of diversity, equity, and inclusion, like all noble endeavors, is a never-ending journey. As it relates to your experience in schools, what is the most important thing that you have learned along your DEI journey?

2. As an Episcopal school, St. Andrew's seeks to nurture the development of the whole child, body, mind, and spirit, and to balance faith and reason, the head and the heart, in the learning process. This Episcopal ethos takes shape in things like daily chapel, service learning, DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), and SEL (Social and Emotional
Learning). What, if anything, attracts you to working in an educational community that embraces a holistic approach to learning and formation?

3. Describe an example of a lesson that didn’t go as planned and what you learned about yourself, teaching, and the learning process for your students in your reflection.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $45,000.00 - $47,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Teaching: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: One location