RIE Infant Assistant Teacher

Description Job Purpose

A RIE Infant Classrooms serves children 3 months of age to 18 months of age.

As an Assistant RIE Teacher in the Infant classrooms, you will be a 1 of 4 compassionate, patient guides for 9 infants ages 3 months to 18 months of age; a receptive, courteous, and graceful assistant to the RIE Lead teacher; and a responsive community builder for the families in your classroom community.

• As a Assistant RIE teacher, you will be an ambassador of Ambrosia Montessori.
• You will learn the expectations of the RIE approach and the RIE environment.
• Ultimately, you will be a model of kindness, respect, and care for the team of teachers with whom you will work, the children and the families that will join our program; and for all people that enter our building.
• The assistant teacher/aide is responsible for supporting the learning of each child with which you work under the direction of the lead teacher.
• Additionally, you will be helping children through transitions, maintaining supplies for the classroom, and working as a team member across classrooms.
• The person in this role should see children as people equally deserving of respect, have compassion for families and be willing to problem solve with, as well as be willing to support and care for your fellow staff.
• In turn you will receive all of those same graces from your colleagues.

Our mission is to offer each child the opportunity to learn and grow. Your position is to support the mission Ambrosia Montessori through teacher and family collaboration and implementation of a warm, nurturing, supportive, and culturally sensitive learning environment. We also want to create an excellent professional environment that provides each employee with professional growth, a healthy paycheck, excellent benefits in a supportive work environment.

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Health Benefits

For all full-time employees, Ambrosia Montessori will cover 100% of Monthly Health Insurance Premium; 100% of the Monthly Dental Insurance Premium; and 100% of the Monthly Vision Insurance Premium for the employee only. Additional family members can be added; however, the cost of the family members is the responsibility of the employee and will be deducted from the paycheck. Health Benefit eligibility will begin at 60 days of employment.

Child Care All Employees will be eligible for free child care while employed. Free Child Care will be available during the working hours of the employee while they are working on site.

Holiday Pay All Employees will be paid for their scheduled time during school closure days. The exception to this rule will be if the employee has no accrued time off available AND they have taken the day before the closure off. In this event the employee would NOT be eligible for the paid closure, as they would be currently out of benefits for absenteeism.

Paid Sick Leave Sick leave will be accrued at 1 hour for every 40 hours worked. Accrual begins at the first hour of work, but the benefit of sick leave can only be used after 30 days of employment.

Paid Time Off Paid Time Off will be accrued at 1 hour for every 40 hours worked. Accrual begins at the first hour of work, but the benefit of Paid Time Off can only be used after 30 days of employment. This accrual will increase over time.