Hybrid Childcare Teacher bei Yellowstone Club

The purpose of the Lead teacher is to supervise operations in the employee childcare facilities and ensure standard operating procedures are followed. 

Responsibilities 

• Model and teach developmentally appropriate behavior and interactions between children and adults. 
• Provide daily care to meet the needs of every child enrolled. 
• Manage day-to-day classroom schedules, routines, and activities. 
• Track and assess each child’s progress and share that information with parents. 
• Help children to reach developmental milestones through active play. 
• Maintain a clean, organized, and tidy space. 
• Communicate with families' daily updates and necessary information. 

The right candidate will: 

• Understand Montana’s early childhood requirements and are current with the MTECP registry. 
• Have early childhood education training, experience, and understand developmentally appropriate practice. 
• Familiarity with the Waldorf style of early childhood education. 
• Demonstrate strong leadership and organizational skills. 
• Have flexibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to building this new program. 
• Have a passion for getting children outside, modeling care and concern for natural environments, believing that nature is a powerful, meaningful teacher that is necessary for children’s overall development. 
• Be a co-learner with children, believing that the best curriculum emerges out of children’s experiences and ideas. 
• Comfort in using daily responsive planning to follow these child-initiated learning opportunities. 
• Believe that children are capable, competent individuals with ideas worthy of being heard, and using their voices in planning and decision-making. 
• Demonstrate an understanding of asking open-ended questions, eliciting, and extending children’s ideas, addressing children’s physical and emotional needs, helping children resolve conflicts, and providing direct and meaningful feedback to children. 
• Be comfortable emphasizing play and discovery over didactic instruction, being an active participant in that play and discovery and having an attitude of yes. 
• Differentiate instruction based on the academic and social-emotional needs of each student. 
• Use non-violent communication with students, staff, and parents, grounded in kindness and celebration of students. 
• Actively listen, get curious, and ask questions when communicating with others. 
• Partner with students, parents, and fellow teachers to create developmental goals for students and measure their progress through clear, narrative assessment. 
• Be an empathetic leader who values the lived experience of all community members, including students, parents, and staff. 
• Be a social justice and equity champion who actively seeks to create equitable and inclusive learning spaces. 

License/Certification: 

• Current CPR/First Aid Certification or can be obtained within 30 days of hire. 
• Child Development Associate Certification or degree in education (Preferred). 
• Current on the MTECP Registry. 

Yellowstone Club offers great benefits including: 

• Free transportation to and from Bozeman  
• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance  
• Discounted Ski Pass  
• Employee Ski Days  
• Complimentary shift meals  
• 401k eligibility and bi-weekly match 
• Access to onsite fitness center 24/7 
• Discounted Employee Housing in Big Sky or Bozeman  
• Discounts to over 1000 retailers through ADP LifeMart 
• End of season Employee Appreciation Day and retail sale  

For more information about the Club, visit www.yellowstoneclub.com.