PreK Lead Teacher

🌼Pre-K Lead Teacher🌼 

The ideal candidate is nurturing, experienced, and skilled in supporting children’s early academic and social-emotional development. If you’re passionate about working with pre-K, we’d love to connect with you!

About Georgetown Hill Early School

Our mission is to join teachers, children, and their families to create an unsurpassed early childhood educational experience. Georgetown Hill Early School is a non-profit school serving Maryland families since 1980.

❤️Why You Will Love Us ❤️
A supportive team, a positive workplace, and real opportunities to grow professionally. You’ll make a meaningful impact on children and families every day.

We offer the following benefits:

• Employer subsidized medical insurance
• Voluntary dental, vision, short term disability, and term life
• Pre-tax spending account options
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Generous paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Public service loan forgiveness (PSLF) eligible employer

We provide an inclusive environment that ensures the happiness and success of each of our employees, as well as the families and children who place their trust in us. We are not your average daycare; we are an equal-opportunity employer that prides itself on hiring, training, and retaining a diverse community of employees from various backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.

Pay Range - $20-$25/hr. based on credentials, location, and experience.

We are looking for amazing PreK lead teachers!

Are you an experienced educator? We need you at our preschool

Join our prekindergarten children in a program that honors and celebrates each child's unique learning journey. Your role will allow you to foster independence in an environment of trust and warmth, while giving our students a strong love of learning.

• Greenwood/Hyattsville - NAEYC accredited (National Association of the Education of Young Children), and an approved private school, serving families of federal employees and the community. Conveniently located next door to PG Plaza in a growing and revitalizing community (metro accessible)
• Hood College Lab School/Frederick - NAEYC accredited (National Association of the Education of Young Children), and operated jointly with the college's Department of Education. The Lab School serves families in the surrounding Frederick community and is conveniently located on the edge of Hood campus.

What you'll do

• Provide for the educational needs and interests of pre-k children using a creative and age-appropriate curriculum to prepare for kindergarten
• Supervision of children to ensure the health, welfare, and safety of all students
• Support the physical, socio-emotional, and developmental needs of each child in the classroom
• Demonstrate effective leadership among the classroom team
• Demonstrate effective communication skills and positive interpersonal relations with children, families, colleagues, and the community
• Classroom management that fosters a consistent, safe, and positive learning environment for all students and staff

Qualifications

• The education/certification requirements for a Lead Teacher position requires a minimum of the bachelor's degree in ECE/Education or related field. Our ideal candidate will have 5 or more years of relevant experience and the following credentials/skills:
• • Excellent understanding of the principles of child development and instructional strategies
  • Strong knowledge of MSDE regulations
  • A personal demeanor that is warm, friendly, and cool-tempered
  • Proficient technological skills, including Microsoft Office, are a plus
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including grammar and reading skills
  • Extremely reliable in attendance and punctuality
  • Highly organized and able to prioritize and multitask
  • Team-oriented and willing to work with others

Per Maryland State Department of Education Office of Child Care regulations, all applicants must submit to and successfully pass a state and federal background check as a contingency of employment. Applicants for our federal center campuses must receive GSA security clearance through a government background screening.