After School Teacher
After School Teacher
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07-06-2025
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07-06-2025
Job Description
In a large city like New York The Co-op School provides a safe and stimulating micro-environment where students experiment and learn. All members of The Co-op School- students families and staff- contribute to the development of our unique culture and participate in and improve our community and beyond. As students learn to work together preparing for a global environment families also work in committees and on the board to support the school. Whether painting walls assembling furniture growing the school through various initiatives and much more we all help The Co-op School flourish. Meanwhile faculty collaborate to create learning opportunities that evolve with students strengths and interests in addition to utilizing best practices. Teachers guide students in the dynamic life-long process of questioning and deepening connections. Through far-reaching social studies projects enrichment through literature math science and the arts students make decisions research and reflect. Students will leave The Co-op School confident to effect change in the community and comfortable reflecting on ways to challenge and grow themselves. As creative problem solvers each with unique viewpoints and learning styles students will embrace the idea of a more equitable world. We strive to inspire passion and teach children to become protagonists in their own educational journey by fostering their innate sense of curiosity and creativity. We listen to and honor the individual interests and strengths of each child.
The Opportunity:
The Co-op School is seeking a committed After School Teacher to join our team from 3:00pm - 6:00 pm Monday - Friday but can be flexible for the right candidate. We are looking for someone who possesses the following skills and qualities:
Passionate about working with children
A commitment to working with students ages 2- 12
Experience working with children in a preschool or elementary school level
Ideal candidate has or will have a degree in early childhood or elementary education
Enthusiasm for the opportunities and challenges inherent in working with children
A positive attitude and flexible approach
Duties:
Work with the After School Director to ensure the Co-op Schools mission and values are upheld inside and outside the classroom
Work with the After School Director and teachers to ensure that the Co-op School maintains a healthy and safe environment in which the children can learn play and grow
Responsible for the daily operation of the after-school program including logging children in and out of the daily log book
Lead activities during instruction time and play
Responsible for maintaining a tidy classroom
Work with the After School Director to ensure all students go to their scheduled enrichment classes
Assist the After School Director and teachers in fostering open communication between the staff and Co-op families
Work with the After School Director and teachers to ensure that all families and children are warmly greeted during drop-off and pick up
Assist the After School Director and teachers in maintaining a positive environment for other counselors and staff members
Attend and complete all training required by the State Licensing Board outlined by the Department of Health or Department of Education
To Apply:
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The Co-op School is an equal-opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race creed color citizenship national origin or ancestry religion or religious practices sex age marital status sexual orientation physical or mental disability prior arrest or conviction record genetic predisposition or any other basis prohibited by federal state or local laws. Our policy extends to all employment practices including but not limited to hiring transfer promotion training compensation benefits lay-offs and termination.
Compensation: $22.50 per hour
History
The Co-op School was founded in 2003 by a group of parents who saw the need for a high-quality and affordable preschool option in the Clinton Hill and Fort Greene neighborhoods. Since then the Co-op School has matured from a small parent-run playgroup to a fully staffed and licensed non-profit school.
After residing in two prior homes in Clinton Hill The Co-op School moved into 87 Irving Place in the fall of 2009. In 2011 The Co-op School launched the first kindergarten class of its elementary program at 40 Brevoort Place. In 2019 we opened our doors at 644 Gates Avenue in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhoodin a 3500-square-foot building with a double-height gym a rooftop library and two playgroundshousing our preschool lower school and middle school students under one roof.
Mission and Core Values
The mission of The Co-op School is to inspire passion and teach children to become protagonists in their own educational journey by fostering their innate sense of curiosity and creativity. The Co-op School facilitates joyful learning through a unique and rigorous constructivist approach that listens to and honors the individual interests and strengths of each child. The Co-op School doesnt just belong to the students and educators but extends to the family community as a whole. It belongs to those who participate in it and is a more resilient and creative place because of it.
We The Co-op School believe in the following Core Values:
Compassion
We value and nurture the strength of character it takes to work together as a team to be an individual to respect differences of opinions and have the ability to empathize with others.
Uniqueness
We value and nurture the confidence that leads to risk taking problem solving and taking pride in ones own point of view.
Innovation
We value and nurture curiosity imagination creativity experimentation and perseverance when faced with challenges.
Community Action
We value and nurture an overall awareness respect and care for our surroundings community and environment.
Anti-Racism
We value and nurture the courage and heart it requires to be anti-racist in our speech and actions and exemplify this through the conversations we have and the work we do in and out of our classrooms.
Joy
We value and nurture the simple joy of playing learning and friendship-making.
Employment Type
Part-Time
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