Atrium School Hiring for Third Grade Co-Teacher at Watertown, MA Full Time

Third Grade Teacher
Atrium School, Watertown MA

Atrium School seeks a skillful, experienced, and creative full-time Grade 3 teacher, to begin in the 2023-24 school year.

Application instructions: https://atrium.org/employmentopportunities

Atrium School is a progressive, inclusive PreK – Grade 8 independent school in the vibrant East End of Watertown, MA. Our program encourages deep academic curiosity, creativity, and exploration to foster each child’s intellectual and personal growth. Our students are diverse and original thinkers, who develop confidence in themselves and respect for others within a joyful, energized community of nurturing and challenging teachers, engaged parents, and enriching community partnerships.

Teachers in the elementary grades at Atrium work in co-teaching pairs and actively create innovative curriculum. We seek candidates with particular strengths in reading, writing, and social studies in a classroom where social/emotional learning, collaboration, and kindness are prized. Atrium’s program and school culture cultivate inclusion and an active sense of social and environmental justice. Throughout the year, co-teachers work closely together to develop integrated thematic study that focuses all aspects of children’s education at Atrium into a central idea, often in collaboration with the second-grade team and students.

In addition, faculty at Atrium:

• Are passionate experts in their content areas and instructional skills; they write skillfully and frequently.
• Enjoy and have great capacity to nurture the whole child, and value the broad array of learning approaches that every child possesses. Teachers here value the varied dimensions of student learning and progress.
• Collaborate daily with multiple colleagues to plan and carry out complex, integrated learning experiences that cross grades and subject areas.
• Initiate and continually plan their own growth within a supportive atmosphere that prioritizes professional development.

At Atrium, we believe diversity and inclusion are key drivers of creativity and innovation, and that a diversity of thoughts, experiences, backgrounds, personalities, and identities helps us think bigger and better, enabling us to reach our goals more effectively. We encourage applications from individuals who will add to the racial, cultural, and gender diversity of the school community, and who are committed to building and sustaining a community that is richly diverse and includes a wide range of family structures and racial, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds. For further information about the mission, program, and community at Atrium, please visit www.atrium.org.

To apply, please submit a resume, a cover letter, and the names of three references to both Marshall Carter and Kathy Hanson (see https://atrium.org/employmentopportunities for full application instructions). No phone calls, please.

Job Type: Full-time

Grade levels:

• 3rd grade

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

School type:

• Private school

Work Location: One location