Teacher Position
Wild Roots offers meaningful work, steeped in the natural world; wonderful and supportive colleagues; ongoing training, professional development, and mentoring; and competitive pay in the field. Are you interested in joining the longest running forest kindergarten in North America?
All classes take place in local parks and open spaces.
The ideal candidate will be an experienced, kind, warm, creative, and observant person, excited to grow and learn alongside children and colleagues. We look for teachers who love to sing and tell stories, who are curious and aware of their surroundings, and those who are dedicated to the wellbeing of children, families, the human community, and the greater than human community we are a part of.
Qualifications:
Candidates must possess at least one of the following:
Additional Requirements
The Teacher Role requires 32 hours per week, including prep time and staff meetings.
How to apply:
To apply, please send a resume/CV and single-page cover letter to: [email protected]
No calls, please.
All classes take place in local parks and open spaces.
The ideal candidate will be an experienced, kind, warm, creative, and observant person, excited to grow and learn alongside children and colleagues. We look for teachers who love to sing and tell stories, who are curious and aware of their surroundings, and those who are dedicated to the wellbeing of children, families, the human community, and the greater than human community we are a part of.
Qualifications:
Candidates must possess at least one of the following:
- Minimum 12 units completed in Early Childhood Education (ECE) or equivalent field courses
- Completion of a minimum of level two Forest School teacher training
- Comparable recognized teacher training
Additional Requirements
- Minimum 2 years experience teaching with groups children 2-6 years old, including at least 1 year of teaching experience in an outdoor, nature based setting
- Ability to assess development of children in care
- Ability to implement emergency response plans in unexpected events
- Ability to uphold safety guidelines, rules, and land regulations
- Basic knowledge of local hazards
- Naturalist knowledge and skills / nature connection / awareness of local natural history
- Ability to conduct ongoing risk assessment
- Interpersonal communication skills
- Children
- Co-teachers
- Families
- Greater community
- Leadership ability
- Group management
- Hold boundaries for children and adults
- Responsiveness
- Integrity
- Supervision & mentorship of assistant teachers
- Storytelling abilities
- Singing joyfully with children
- CPR certification, Pediatric First Aid, and ability to pass criminal records check
- Comfortable working outdoors in all weather conditions
- Comfortable sitting on the ground and getting dirty.
- Comfortable handling insects and other small creatures.
- Interested in further growth in naturalist studies and mentoring
- Physically fit, able to crouch, dig, climb, hike, and carry up to 40lbs
- Basic use of hand tools (knife, hand saw, rope, sewing needles, etc)
- Basic fire tending and safety skills
- Basic tracking skills
- Familiarity with bird language
- Background in or familiar with Waldorf Education
- Ancestral/Primitive skills
- Familiarity with native and naturalized plants
The Teacher Role requires 32 hours per week, including prep time and staff meetings.
- Mon-Fri, 8:15am to 1:30pm
- 1 hour per week for all staff meetings
- 5 hrs prep time per week (flex)
- Competitive salary DOE,
- paid professional development
- paid sick days
- paid national holidays
- 7 weeks paid vacation per year minimum (2 weeks each for Spring, Winter, and Summer, & 1 week for Thanksgiving)
- flexible summers
- opportunity to grow with us and expand your role as it helps fulfill our mission.
How to apply:
To apply, please send a resume/CV and single-page cover letter to: [email protected]
No calls, please.
