Job Description
Springmont, a private PK-8 Montessori school in Sandy Springs, seeks an Elementary (grades 4-6) Teacher’s Assistant to begin January 3, 2024. This is a full-time position with compensation commensurate with experience, starting at $16 hourly, plus a comprehensive benefits package including health, vision, and dental insurance, paid time off, and professional development and retirement savings opportunities.
Assistants supervise children at recess and lunch and support the classroom community, responding to the Teacher’s directions and reinforcing community routines and expectations.
The ideal candidate is warm, reliable, organized, and flexible and possesses good written and verbal communication skills and facility with technology. Experience with children is preferred. Previous experience in a Montessori environment is not required; however, candidates must be willing to learn about and implement Montessori classroom practices. Dedicated to our school mission and the service of students and their families, we seek candidates committed to providing a caring and nurturing learning environment. Candidates should also embrace the opportunity to work with individuals from diverse backgrounds and perspectives and be committed to fostering an equitable and inclusive work and learning environment.
If interested, please email jobs@springmont.com, including a cover letter in the body of the email and a resume as an attachment. Only candidates of interest will be contacted.
Springmont, Atlanta's First Montessori School, is located on the north side of Atlanta, Georgia. Serving 270 students 18 months through 8th grade, Springmont is AMI recognized and has been providing an exceptional Montessori experience since 1963. Our mission is to provide a learning environment where diversity of thought and a global perspective empower students to be inquisitive, knowledgeable, independent, compassionate and effective. In addition to our beautiful, wooded, 7-acre main campus, students benefit from our 86-acre land school in the northwest Georgia mountains as well as distinctive Outdoor Science Education and Fine Arts programs.
Springmont School provides equal employment opportunity without regard to an applicant’s race, color, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, religion, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. Springmont is an Equal Opportunity Employer.