What are the responsibilities and job description for the Wheeler Lower School and Hamilton School Day Substitute Teacher 2025-26 Academic Year position at The Wheeler School?
Wheeler Lower School and Hamilton School Day Substitute Teacher
2025-26 Academic Year
The Wheeler School, a co-ed, N-12 independent day school with city and farm campuses serving
approximately 800 students in the Greater Providence and Greater Boston areas, is seeking a substitute
teacher to join our Wheeler Lower School and Hamilton School community to provide both full and half
day coverage on an as-needed basis.
Ideal candidates for faculty and staff positions at Wheeler are people with a sense of humor, warmth, and
humility. They are excellent communicators, with empathy for others and an ability to listen and respond
with good intuition and with the help of colleagues. They are ambitious and hard-working, committed to
supporting students by offering help and creating new opportunities. When developing curriculum and
programming, our faculty and staff members are curious, striving each year to stretch and grow, to
implement new ideas that improve the Wheeler experience. In the end, they love to spend their days with
young people and enjoy all that the Wheeler community - creative, energetic, dynamic, and diverse - has
to offer.
Wheeler Lower School (K-5th Grade) offers a creative, joyful, learning experience for students. Our
signature Aerie Approach enables every student to discover, explore, and develop personal interests and
academic passions that go beyond the curriculum. The Hamilton School at Wheeler (1st-8th Grade) is
a school-within-a-school where skilled faculty meet students’ learning differences with the individualized
instruction that leads to success. Since 1988, the Hamilton School at Wheeler has served elementary and
middle school children who have great overall cognitive ability, but who struggle with reading, organization
and study skills due to dyslexia, attention-deficit disorder (ADHD), executive function deficits, or other
learning differences. We believe — and prove daily — that our students can learn these important skills
and meet the highest expectations.
The substitute teacher’s primary responsibilities will include:
● Implement lesson plans provided by the teacher who is absent
● Effectively manage the students in the classes that are being covered
● Provide supervision for occasional duties (e.g. recess and lunch)
Qualifications:
● A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree is required.
● Availability to work 7:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.
● Be reachable by phone until 8:00 p.m the night prior and by 6:30 a.m. the morning of when
coverage is needed.
● Prior experience working with children of different ages.
The ideal candidate possesses the flexibility to operate independently and collaboratively, has an
engaging personality, and demonstrates motivation and interest in working with elementary-aged and