Position Overview:
L’Alliance New York is looking for a Full-Time Preschool Teacher for its Manhattan Preschool; a French immersion program designed for preschoolers (ages 2.5 to 5.5). The teacher will be responsible for planning and implementing developmentally appropriate activities designed to teach the French curriculum while promoting social, emotional, cognitive, and physical growth in preschool-aged children.
Responsibilities:
- Foster enthusiasm for active participation in the learning process
- Understand the developmental milestones of young children
- Promote learning in the areas of social-emotional, language, cognitive, and physical development
- Plan and implement an age-appropriate, challenging curriculum for children. Develop lesson plans that are meaningful and using the French Ministry of Education Curriculum.
- Provide a wide variety of learning opportunities, including individual, both for small and large group activities, both indoors and outdoors
- Monitor students’ progress and provide differentiated instruction tailored to each child’s needs
- Listen and respond to parents’ and caregivers’ concerns in a responsible, constructive, and resourceful manner
- Attend weekly collaborative meetings
- Establish and maintain appropriate standards of student behavior utilizing a variety of behavior management strategies and techniques
- Actively seek opportunities for professional development in early childhood education
- Ensure the physical safety of children through anticipation and removal of hazards, visual observation of children active or at rest, and appropriately responding to potential injuries
- Work in a team, share information and build positive working relationships
- Actively support the school’s philosophy and community and enforce its policies
- Integrate meaningful and appropriate use of technology within the curriculum