Preschool Teacher

**About Mass Audubon** Mass Audubon is the largest nature-based conservation organization in New England. Founded in 1896 by two women who fought for the protection of birds, Mass Audubon carries on their legacy by focusing on the greatest challenges facing the environment today: the loss of biodiversity, inequitable access to nature, and climate change. With the help of our 160,000 members and supporters, we protect wildlife, conserve and restore resilient land, advocate for impactful environmental policies, offer nationally recognized education programs for adults and children, and provide endless opportunities to experience the outdoors at our wildlife sanctuaries. Explore, find inspiration, and take action at [massaudubon.org](http://www.massaudubon.org/). **About This Position**The Ipswich River Nature Preschool at Endicott is seeking a part-time Preschool Teacher! This position is one of the early childhood educators on 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 and 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. 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. *Application Instructions*Please submit a resume and cover letter with your ADP application. **Responsibilities** *General* - Provides a physically and emotionally safe environment for young children both within an indoor and outdoor environment - Maintains clear communication with co-teachers and share teaching amongst the co-teaching faculty team - Creates and maintains a healthy, safe, and positive environment for children using best practices in early childhood nature-based education - Works with other faculty colleagues to develop and steward a sense of community, belonging, and connection to nature in the preschool community - Responsible for emotional and physical health and safety of students and completing accident reports/injury forms as needed as well as medication logs; assist in communicating incidents with parent/guardian at the end of class, obtain signature and provide photocopies for parent and child’s preschool file - Assess and document student development; complete progress reports twice a year and assist in conducting parent-teacher team conferences, as scheduled by Preschool Director - Maintain the physical environment by contributing to classroom housekeeping tasks as needed and storing personal belongings away from preschool program space - Enhance the physical space by thoughtfully placing child-initiated art, emergent language poems, emergent math charts and graphs, photographs of nature, students/families in class community, murals and other learning centers that reflect a nature-based curriculum - Keeps up with relevant and ongoing changes in policies and guidelines within Mass Audubon, specific Mass Audubon sanctuary, and within MA Department of…