Reports To: Head of Lower School
Position Summary:
Glenelg Country School is a coeducational independent school located in Howard County, Maryland has approximately eight hundred students, 2-year-old through twelfth grade. GCS offers a competitive salary including a full benefit package.
Typical Education and Experience:
PK is a state-licensed program, so teachers must complete a minimum of 12 hours or more of continued training per year to maintain licensing requirements along with CPR/First Aid training and other required training. This position is an excellent opportunity for new educator interested in strengthening their professional skill set and who is passionate about teaching students in a Lower School setting. Additional required qualifications include: first aid and CPR certified, 90-hour preschool and 45-hour infant toddler classes and an associates or bachelor’s degree candidates will be preferred.
Overview of Essential Functions:
- The Early Childhood Teaching Assistant will need to assist the lead teacher in supporting and nurturing the development of each child’s self-esteem, trust, and growing autonomy.
- To help assess children’s different and personal needs, temperament styles, and abilities.
- A TA needs to support the classroom team to plan and implement lesson plan activities and developmentally appropriate experiences.
- Will be in regularly scheduled staff meetings, parent meetings, in-service training, and other meetings as directed.
Key Skills and Attributes:
The school welcomes candidates with a sense of teamwork who want to work in a school community. Glenelg Country School requires a strong commitment toward working closely with students and colleagues in and out of the classroom. In addition to teaching, the successful candidate will participate in the school’s overall life by contributing to service learning, clubs, enrichment classes, field trips, and faculty committees.
Administration:
All prospective employees must be able to clear background checks, as required by the State of Maryland.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to listen, physically direct, and speak. The employee is required to stand, walk; use hands to finger, compute, handle, clean spills, tie shoe, zipper coats or feel and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and ability to adjust focus with screens, white boards, printed material, and ability to see children in detail. The employee must be able to lift at least thirty pounds. The employee is also regularly required to climb two flights of stairs.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those of a school and what an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level in the work environment is moderate; however, variations in noise level may occur when the employee attends school functions such as assemblies, school dances, and other events.