Preschool Lead Teacher - Merryhill School
North Highlands, CA 95660
About the Job
Join Our Team as a Preschool Lead Teacher at the Brand-New Merryhill Preschool Campus!
We're excited to announce the opening of our newest Merryhill Preschool campus in January 2025! We're looking for passionate, caring individuals who want to be part of something special from day one. If you're enthusiastic about early childhood education and creating a joyful environment where children can thrive, we want to meet you!
Why You'll Love Working with Us
- Competitive Pay: $24-$30 per hour
- Comprehensive Benefits: Health, vision, and dental coverage
- Future Savings: 401(k) plan to support your long-term goals
- Referral Bonuses: Earn extra for helping us find more amazing teachers
- Student Tuition Discounts: Share our love of learning with your family
About the Role
As a Preschool Lead Teacher at Merryhill School, you'll play a key role in fostering a safe and supportive environment where young learners feel valued and empowered. Your presence will help ignite curiosity and confidence in each child, laying the foundation for lifelong learning.
A Typical Day
Our teachers create warm, engaging, and creative classrooms that spark excitement for learning and promote essential 21st-century skills like communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and critical thinking. Expect a lively day filled with circle time, playtime, snack time, and plenty of joyful moments!
What You Bring to the Team
- Minimum Requirements: 12 early childhood education (ECE) units and at least 18 years of age
- Passion for Working with Children: You're enthusiastic about creating a joyful and engaging learning experience.
- Strong Communication Skills: You're comfortable interacting with children, parents, and team members.
- Collaborative and Flexible: You work well within a team and adapt easily to different situations.
- Organized and Positive: You create a welcoming classroom where children feel safe, respected, and eager to learn.
- Strong Work Ethic and Problem-Solving Mindset: You're dedicated, solution-oriented, and committed to fostering a positive learning environment.
Why Choose Merryhill?
Joining our team means becoming part of an innovative and supportive educational community. You'll benefit from growth opportunities, a collaborative environment, and the chance to make a lasting impact on young children's lives from day one.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. In general, this position requires an individual to frequently walk, stand, sit, squat, stoop, reach, kneel, rise from the floor, twist, listen, read, write, and speak the English language. In addition, this position often requires an individual to carry, lift, use repetitive or fine hand movements, and occasionally push, pull, or bend. This position is regularly required to hear and use clear vision with or without correction. Spring Education Group, including, but not limited to SEG Inc., and their affiliates (collectively "Company") is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants for employment and employees are provided equal employment opportunities, including in recruitment, hiring, and assignment, without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion and religious creed, sex (including pregnancy and related conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital or familial status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, genetic information, military/veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. The Company expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee or student harassment or discrimination. Other details- Job Function Early Childhood Education
- Pay Type Hourly
- Employment Indicator Full Time
- Min Hiring Rate $24.00
- Max Hiring Rate $30.00