1 Kinder Assistant 2024-2025 Job in El Sobrante, CA
Wildcat Canyon Community School is Hiring a Kinder Assistant 2024-2025 Near El Sobrante, CA
Kindergarten Assistant Teacher 2024-2025
The Wildcat Canyon Community School is seeking a Kindergarten Assistant to work with a lead
Kindergarten teacher in our outdoor-focused Kindergarten program. Class sizes range from 18-24
children.
Ideal candidates are: joyful and love working with children; able to follow a lead teacher’s cues as well
as the rhythms of the classroom; comfortable navigating conflict and facilitating play with children; able
to multi-task and prioritize tasks; socially intelligent and with a strong personal commitment to an
anti-racist path and classroom. Waldorf familiarity and/or training are a plus.
Physical Requirements:
Ability to lift 50 pounds, get up and off the ground repeatedly during each day, carry a loaded
- Ability to hike up to 3 miles, in uneven terrain, in all weather conditions
Tasks:
Support teacher-led developmental curriculum with 4-7-year-old children in a large group, largely
- Ability to facilitate healthy play dynamics and implement appropriate classroom management
- Care for the physical and emotional well-being of the children and their families
- Work with individual children who need guidance and small groups independently.
- Foster positive relationships with their colleagues, children, and families.
- Know and implement the discipline policy set in the All School and Early Childhood Parent
- Participate in domestic activities joyously, including preparing snacks, cleaning, and laundry.
- Hold the order and rhythm of the class in the lead teacher's absence with a paid or volunteer
- Maintain a professional relationship with parents and observe strict confidentiality regarding all
school, child, and family matters.
About Wildcat Canyon Community School (WCCS)
WCCS is a Waldorf-inspired AWSNA-registered initiative. An independent, coed school, WCCS serves
more than 190 students from preschool through middle school on a remarkable 11-acre hillside campus
with an additional 80 acres, which provides endless opportunities for outdoor classroom experiences. We
are currently thriving in our third year as a parent/teacher cooperative that blossomed from the East Bay
Waldorf School. We are a collective of teachers and faculty reimagining Waldorf curriculum in an effort
to bring it to current times to meet the children of today.
We are looking for educators who will join us in cultivating a school resonant with the impulses of
Waldorf education: a development of the “head, heart, and hands” in children, which offers them a
holistic education in service of supporting the development of free-thinking human beings who can make
their unique contributions to the future - while simultaneously, centering diversity, equity and inclusion
through curriculum, stories and festivals.
How to Apply
Please send your letter of interest, resume, and the names and contact information of three references to
jobs@wildcatcanyon.org
Wildcat Canyon Community School is an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes applicants of any
color, race, gender, sexual orientation, and all ethnic, national, cultural, social, and religious backgrounds.
Job Summary
Full Time
$36k-47k (estimate)
03/06/2024
07/01/2024
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