Overview
This position is for a Montessori Assistant.
Wildflower has one staff meeting per week, one parent education night per month, and one professional development day per month.
Compensation
$20-$25/hr (based on certifications and experience)
Hours
School day for children is 2:30-5:30 pm. Assistant hours reflect before and after school preparation.
Monday through Friday: 2:30-5:30 pm (15 hrs)
Weekly Team Meeting (1)
Roles and Responsibilities
*Roles and responsibilities are in continuous flux; there is room to change, subtract, and/or add accountabilities. An example of this would be if someone felt passionate about creating a summer program, vacation care, or after-school program, there could be room to take the role on.
The role of the Montessori Assistant includes but is not limited to:
Daily responsibility for safety and supervision of all children. This includes in the classroom, on walks to public (city) playgrounds, and at the playground.
Daily preparation and maintenance of the environment
Maintaining EEC staff folder
Willingness to learn about Montessori philosophy
Ability to help children with toileting and napping, as necessary
Overall knowledge and maintenance of the basement storage area in support of classroom
Ability to uphold firm (and kind) limits with all children
Ability to uphold consistency of limits in support of lead guide
Ability to manage small group of children
Commitment to personal growth and development
Participation in daily check in
Participation in monthly team coaching
Commitment to honest and respectful communication with team
Cultivation of awareness of your own need for support
Willingness to ask for support when needed
Willingness to ask for clarity when necessary
Willingness to develop grace with “errors”, your own and those of others.
ROLE
PURPOSE
ACCOUNTABILITIES
Montessori Assistant
To support Lead Teachers and a beautiful learning environment for the children, families, and teachers.
Support a consistent “way of being” for the children that can be carried out in both the morning and the afternoon, help maintain the beautiful Montessori environment, share observations of the classroom and children, and participate in staff meetings, professional development, and school events.
Communications
To help support Leads in communication with the school community.
Since there will be a morning Lead Guide and an Afternoon Lead Guide, we will create a system together to best communicate with parents about a child’s day.
EEC protocols
To upkeep EEC licensing status.
To maintain your personal staff folder. Have knowledge of Individual Health Care Plans, Accident reports, etc). To upkeep certain required EEC postings at the school.
Community and Equity
To create an Anti-Bias Anti-Racist learning environment and to honor the humanity of all people.
To continue racial identity work on an individual basis, and bring the work to both other staff members and to our school community. To help support an experience of liberatory education in our environment.
Wildflower Montessori does not exclude or otherwise discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, cultural heritage, political beliefs, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
To apply for this job email your details to stephanie@wildflowermontessorischool.org
About Wildflower Montessori School
We are a classroom of Montessori learners and educators in Cambridge MA, traditional land of Pawtucket and Massachusett peoples past and present. Wildflower Montessori is a learning environment for children ages 2.9 through the Kindergarten year. Our teachers hold both AMI and AMS Montessori trainings, and hold a collective of over four decades of experience in early childhood settings. Wildflower Montessori School, the first Wildflower School, is currently celebrating our 12th year!
