Full-Time Bilingual Preschool Teacher (Spanish Speaking)

Full-Time Bilingual Preschool Teacher

(Spanish Speaking)
 

At Children’s Day School, what you learn and who you become are equally important. 

Children’s Day School (CDS) is a welcoming community in the big city, a farm and garden among urban streets, an advocate for change and uplifting progressive values, an independent school with down-to-earth values, and an institution that is always asking how we can do this better. 

We strive for balance so students become both academically successful and grounded. They leave CDS confident, with the humility to listen and the resolve to speak up for what they see as right.

CDS is a co-educational preschool through eighth-grade school serving over 470 students in the Mission Dolores neighborhood of San Francisco, California with two campuses, two sheep, and lovely people. 

To learn more about CDS, visit our website at www.cds-sf.org.

Essential Practices of a CDS Educator

CDS Educators have identified and aligned on these five essential teaching practices to guide instruction and learning in the classroom. Applications should excel in using these practices and be able to apply them to curriculum and unit design across all content areas they are responsible for.

Responsibilities 

• Team: Collaborate, problem-solve and communicate with classroom teaching team members and liaise with the extended day teaching team.
• Curriculum: Collaborate in planning and implementing an exciting, challenging, child-centered and developmentally appropriate preschool curriculum. 
• Children: Encourage children to take initiative to solve problems and pursue their own educational interests. Help children think, investigate and ask questions as part of the educational process. Strive to meet each child’s individual needs. Observe and record students’ development in collaboration with the teaching team and collaborate with the teaching team to complete a progress report for each child in the class.
• Families: Support a physically and emotionally safe environment that nurtures and facilitates the development of both children and families. Collaborate with families toward their child’s success. Meet with families for regularly scheduled parent-teacher conferences and on an as-needed basis. Communicate in a positive, supportive way with families on the phone, in person and via email and blogs.

• Be bilingual (fluent in English and Spanish) and interact with the children in their regular activities in Spanish. 
• Demonstrate the ability to take initiative, work passionately and joyfully, and collaborate effectively with colleagues, students and parents. 
• Apply an understanding of the developmental stages of children when observing and working with individual children.
• Work effectively with children, families, and staff of diverse backgrounds and family structures.
• Communicate and problem-solve with the extended day teaching staff about students and families.
• Model behavior and language that supports our mission and our program.
• Display excellent rapport with children and families.
• Express the desire and ability to take on increasing responsibility in the classroom and the CDS community, and to participate generously.
• Display a passion for progressive education, learning and a commitment to personal-professional growth.
• Demonstrate excellent written and oral communication skills and contribute meaningfully to the twice-yearly progress report-writing process and parent teacher conferences.
• Keep classroom, storage areas, bathrooms and outside areas neat and orderly.
• Work effectively with children, families, and staff of diverse backgrounds and family structures.
• Display a passion for learning and a commitment to personal-professional growth. 
• Be proficient in technology: email, word processing, photos, etc. Comfort with blogging is required.

The successful candidate will: 

• Have at least a Bachelor's or Master’s degree in early childhood education or a related field (at least 12 ECE units are required).
• Meet licensing experience requirements (i.e. have worked at least three hours/day for 50 days in an early childhood setting within the last two years).
• Be able to lift 40 lbs (the weight of the average preschool child)

Required Screenings: Health Screening Report, Immunization Record Requirements, TB Assessment

Clearances: Livescan background check and E-Verify

Projected salary is $61,405 - $124,622. Salary is based on qualifications and experience. Excellent benefits are offered including medical, dental, vision insurance, retirement plan, paid time off, tuition assistance reimbursement, and professional development.

http://careers.cds-sf.org/