Description
Contract Length: 11 months
Number of Vacancies: 1
Student Level:
- Early Childhood
- Licensed Teacher
Requirements:
- Education Required: Bachelor
- Minimum Teaching Experience: 2 years of teaching experience
- Major: Education, Psychology, or related field
- Teaching license not required but relevant educational training or classroom experience is required
- Some experience with positive discipline / gentle approach and/or constructivist learning theories
Job Benefits:
- Travel medical insurance, relocation, etc.
Job Description:
We are looking for adventurous, fun, and creative teachers to join us!
Manglares Discovery School is a private micro-school in its fourth year, set on a secluded, natural jungle campus. Our students range from age 3 to age 11, and the school serves the nearby beach community of Playa Venao. Our school is focused on developing the whole child; academic as well as social and emotional well-being.
Our early education uses a Reggio Emilia-inspired curriculum, and our goal is to permeate this philosophy of the project-based approach through all of our grade levels.
The area offers much potential in terms of inquiry extensions. For example, the campus is home to a waterfall; we get almost daily visits from three species of monkeys and other birds and animals. The local community has various interesting cultural traditions. Our student-teacher ratio is approximately 6 children to 1 teacher for preschool (but often less), and 10 to 1 for kindergarten.
We started with a single, early-education classroom, but have since expanded into elementary grades. We are now looking for a* lead teacher to continue to reinforce the Reggio philosophy in the early year's program (ages 3-5).*
If you believe in developing the whole child, love working with children, believe that life is an adventure, love nature, believe in the hidden potential of children, and want to try working at a growing school in a tropical location, this position might be a great fit for you!