What are the responsibilities and job description for the Teacher position at Tiny Star?
Company Description Tiny Star is a modern children authorship and creative education venture that helps children turn their ideas into real books, creative identities, and lasting confidence.
Through structured programs that blend storytelling, writing, illustration, publishing, and public sharing, Tiny Star supports children ages 6–10 in becoming active creators rather than passive consumers.
We run in partners schools, recreation centers to deliver meaningful, real-world creative experiences. Core offerings include afterschool programs, Young Author Summer Lab, Young Author Book Fairs, the Kids2Kids Interview Show, and pathways connected to creative industries.
Role Description
The Teacher role at Tiny Star is a part-time, on-site position in the schools at Wellesley, Wayland, Belmont MA.
Teachers’ training and certification will be provided.
In this role, the Teacher guides children ages 6–10 through structured literacy and creative learning experiences focused on storytelling, writing, illustration, and basic publishing concepts.
Responsibilities
1. Delivering engaging lessons, facilitating small-group and individual activities, encouraging student voice and confidence, managing classroom routines to create a safe, inclusive environment, dismiss students safely.
2. Documents each student’s progress and each success.
3. Weekly communication with caregivers to ensure alignment on student goals, mileston expectations, and outcomes.
4. Collect and submit the students manuscripts on time.
5. Participate in organizing your students to events such as Tiny Star Young Author Book Fairs .
Qualifications
- Background in teaching, literacy instruction, or creative education, with experience working with children ages 6–10.
- Strong skills in storytelling, writing, and basic illustration or visual communication to support creative learning activities.
- Ability to design and deliver structured lessons, facilitate group discussions, and manage classroom behavior in a positive, student-centered way.
- Clear, professional communication skills for interacting with students, caregivers, colleagues, and community partners.
- Organizational and time-management skills for planning sessions, tracking student work, submit the manuscripts.
- Bachelor’s degree in Education, English, Child Development, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience considered.
- Experience in afterschool, camp, or enrichment program settings, and comfort working in a fast-growing, mission-driven organization.