Position Opening – Associate Teacher, Middle School (7- to 10-year-olds; 2nd grade - 4th grade)

QUALIFICATIONS

1. Must be enrolled as a graduate student at Bank Street College for the 2022-2023 school year.   
2. Bachelor’s degree
3. Experience teaching children 7-10-year-olds preferred

FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Associate Teacher will:

• Support the curriculum plans of the cooperating teacher and age-level and gradually assume increased responsibilities, including opportunities to initiate and implement parts of the curriculum.
• Help build a collaborative, cooperative, and reflective approach to working as a classroom teaching team and as an age-level teaching team.
• Participate in the use of observing and recording methods, assessment practices, and management supports as related to individual children, small groups, and the whole class.
• Gain skills and understanding of progressive education approaches supporting the social, emotional, cognitive, and physical growth and development of particular age groups.
• Develop skills and confidence in working with families, including aspects of home-school communication through emails, conferences, and report writing.
• Attend and participate in weekly age-level planning meetings, support meetings, and faculty meetings after school.
• Help design, organize and maintain a materials-based classroom that reflects the curriculum and current work of the children. This includes daily classroom morning set-up and evening clean-up.

SALARY AND BENEFITS:  

$38,000 plus Associate Teachers are eligible to take up to four free Graduate School courses for the school year (September 1st- August 31) and are also eligible for medical and dental coverage. 

STARTING DATE: August 28, 2023

Please upload your cover letter and resume through our website:  http://bankstreet.edu/jobs

Bank Street College of Education is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, color, national origin, ethnic origin, citizenship status, disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law in its employment policies and other college administered programs. In addition, Bank Street College of Education will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

Bank Street has been recognized as a leader in education and strives to have its faculty and student body reflect the diversity of the society in which they exist. Candidates from underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply.

About Bank Street College of Education

The mission of Bank Street College is to improve the education of children and their teachers by applying to the educational process all available knowledge about learning and growth, and by connecting teaching and learning meaningfully to the outside world. In so doing, we seek to strengthen not only individuals, but the community as well, including family, school, and the larger society in which adults and children, in all their diversity, interact and learn. We see in education the opportunity to build a better society.

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