Job Title: Pre-K Teacher (Ages 3–4)
Location: Brattleboro, Vermont
School: The Neighborhood Schoolhouse
Position Type: Full-Time
Start Date: August 2025
Salary: $43,680 to $49,920
*****$2,000 Sign-on Bonus!!!****
Location: Brattleboro, Vermont
School: The Neighborhood Schoolhouse
Position Type: Full-Time
Start Date: August 2025
Salary: $43,680 to $49,920
*****$2,000 Sign-on Bonus!!!****
Job Description
Since 1980, The Neighborhood Schoolhouse has supported a lifelong love of learning through arts integration, nature-based exploration, and social-emotional development. Nestled beside a 400-acre protected forest, our campus offers a rich environment for young children to learn through connection with the natural world. Our preschool program emphasizes nurturing relationships, outdoor learning, and the development of foundational skills in a joyful, play-based setting.
We are seeking a warm, energetic, and dedicated Pre-K Teacher to join our early childhood team for the 2025-2026 year. This full-time position involves leading a group of 3–4-year-olds in a setting that emphasizes child-led exploration, social development, and hands-on learning both indoors and outdoors.
We are seeking a warm, energetic, and dedicated Pre-K Teacher to join our early childhood team for the 2025-2026 year. This full-time position involves leading a group of 3–4-year-olds in a setting that emphasizes child-led exploration, social development, and hands-on learning both indoors and outdoors.
Job Requirements
- Plan and implement developmentally appropriate curriculum that foster growth across all learning domains
- Foster children’s social-emotional development with kindness, patience, and consistency
- Cultivate a classroom environment that is welcoming and inclusive to all
- Spend significant time outdoors in all seasons, guiding nature-based activities and exploration
- Maintain clear and respectful communication with families and colleagues
- Contribute to school-wide events and collaborate appropriately with other members of the Neighborhood Schoolhouse team
Qualifications
A teacher associate is at least twenty (20) years of age, is a high school graduate or has completed a GED, and meets one (1) of the following qualifications:
• At least a Vermont Early Childhood Career Ladder Level Three (3) Certificate; or
• At least an associate degree from an accredited college with a major or concentration in Early Childhood, Child or Human Development, Elementary Education, or Child and Family Services and at least twelve (12) months experience working with groups of children from grade three (3) or younger; or
• At least a Certificate of Completion from the Registered Child Care Apprenticeship Program; or
• At least a Child Care Certificate from the Community College of Vermont and at least twelve (12) months experience working with groups of children from grade three (3) or younger; or
• At least successful completion of twenty-one (21) college credits with an early childhood or school age focus and at least twelve (12) months experience working with groups of children from grade three (3) or younger.
• At least a Vermont Early Childhood Career Ladder Level Three (3) Certificate; or
• At least an associate degree from an accredited college with a major or concentration in Early Childhood, Child or Human Development, Elementary Education, or Child and Family Services and at least twelve (12) months experience working with groups of children from grade three (3) or younger; or
• At least a Certificate of Completion from the Registered Child Care Apprenticeship Program; or
• At least a Child Care Certificate from the Community College of Vermont and at least twelve (12) months experience working with groups of children from grade three (3) or younger; or
• At least successful completion of twenty-one (21) college credits with an early childhood or school age focus and at least twelve (12) months experience working with groups of children from grade three (3) or younger.
Benefits
Paid time off, including sick, vacation, and school breaks, retirement plan with company match, vision, dental, access to Employee Assistance Plan (EAP), professional development reimbursement, and other fringe benefits.
Apply
Submit a cover letter, Resume/CV, and references to: [email protected]
