About This Role
This Kindergarten Teacher role focuses on supporting students' academic, spiritual, and social/emotional learning, ensuring they are prepared for the next grade level. The teacher will embrace and model the school's core values, represented in its PEARLS (Perseverance, Excellence, Academics, Reconciliation, and Love), within a safe, joyful, and organized classroom environment.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate mastery of related subject matter, instructional skills, and resource materials for subjects taught
- Create lesson plans, aligned with grade standards, which drive instruction through formative assessment and differentiation
- Maintain a safe, joyful, and organized classroom which supports students’ independent and collaborative learning
- Effectively apply restorative disciplinary practices
- Use assessments to inform planning and instruction
- Provide consistent, immediate feedback to student learning and send a weekly newsletter to parents to keep them informed of student progress
- Monitor and maintain a positive classroom environment that supports the school-wide behavior expectations
- Be willing to attend and participate in staff meetings and extra-curricular/school related activities
- Demonstrate a commitment to continuous professional growth and work with administrators and other resources
- Maintain a professional appearance and demeanor consistent with the school’s staff handbook
Requirements
- Knowledge and application of teaching strategies and methods that demonstrate best practice
- Skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relations with co-workers, students, parents, the general public, and others having business with the school
- Use computers, projectors/smart boards, and other technology to enhance the students’ learning experiences
- Must be able to pass an initial fingerprint and background clearance check
- Teacher certification with the state of Missouri or an appropriate short-term plan
- May be required to lift supplies and materials weighing up to 20 pounds
- May be required to work outside normal working hours for school-related programming
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Life insurance
- Vision care
- Dental insurance
- Retirement savings (after 1st year)
- Paid time off
- Recognition of holidays
- Substantial tuition assistance for employees’ children who attend The Freedom School
About the Company
The Freedom School is a private, urban, Christian mission school (Pre-Kindergarten – 6th Grade) with a mission to provide a safe, nurturing, learning community where students of different beliefs, races, ethnicities, and economic circumstances are reconciled to God and one another by experiencing forgiveness by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, without regard for ability to pay. Class sizes range between 12 and 18 students, with a teacher/student ratio of 1:15.