Substitute Teacher - Full-Time

We embrace play in everything we do because it is essential to the intellectual, social, emotional, physical and cultural development of our young children and young adults. Our joyful and nurturing campus in the heart of Midtown Atlanta supports students to take risks and challenges them to make a positive impact on our ever-changing world.

We are seeking an experienced full-time Substitute Teachers to start immediately and work through the 2020-21 school year. Required on-campus hours are 7:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. Pay is $12/hour. This position (full-time) is benefits eligible.

The Substitute Teacher is responsible for providing classroom coverage while a primary teacher is out - facilitating student learning and classroom instruction, in the teacher's absence.

Day to day, a substitute teacher will:

• Motivate, nurture, and challenge students
• Deliver lesson plans
• Support relationships with every child
• Help support a creative, self-directed and collaborative learning environment
• Communicate, collaborate, and work effectively within the school community

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Applicable experience working with children
• Understands early learners, early childhood development and the identity development and learning processes of early adolescents
• Skilled at establishing meaningful relationships with students 
• Possess the following characteristics:
  • Authenticity
  • Contagious optimism and enthusiasm
  • Honesty and Integrity
  • Collaboration-mindedness, empathy, self-awareness and reflection
  • Initiative and high standards
  • Adaptation and resilience
  • Critical thinking
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Comfort in the use of digital technology and media

The Children's School is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.  

We believe that in order for children to fully, sensitively and effectively engage in their communities, they must possess strong local, cultural and global competence. To that end, we learn from and enrich ourselves with multiple perspectives and welcome people of any country of origin, culture, disability, ethnicity, gender expression, gender identity, physical appearance, race, religious choice, family structure, sex, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status.