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About the Role:
Mass Audubon's Ipswich River Nature Preschool is seeking either a Preschool Teacher or a Lead Preschool Teacher for the upcoming school year. The Preschool Teacher is one of the early childhood educators in the teaching team and teaches one or more preschool classes, collaborates with co-teachers on curriculum development/implementation, writes student assessments, engages in classroom management ad family communication. They are responsible for co-designing educational experiences for nature preschool students in accordance with Mass Audubon’s Action Agenda strategic goals, Mass Audubon’s education frameworks, guidelines, and policies for Early Education and Nature Preschools, and MA Early Education and Care (EEC) and overall best practices in nature-based early childhood education.
Requirements:
Preschool Teacher candidates must possess a strong respect for young children and families, a love of teaching young children and a strong desire to connect children and nature and developing values for stewardship of natural and social communities. The Preschool Teacher must have a keen love of designing nature-based curriculum and teaching outside and the ability to plan multi-sensory, play and nature-based, anti-bias, emergent and developmentally appropriate curriculum, incorporating a variety of hands-on/minds-on experiences. The Preschool Teacher is one of the teacher contacts for families in the class, prepares progress reports, parent-teacher team conferences and maintains a warm, professional relationship with children, their parents and caregivers.