4th Grade Teacher

Job Summary

Ashbrook Independent School is seeking an enthusiastic caring and creative4th Grade Teacher to teach in the Lower School that serves kindergarten through 4th grade.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

An Ashbrook Educator will:

• Be passionate about working with students of this particular age group.
• Know the appropriate knowledge and skills regarding developmental characteristics and needs of the specific age group with whom they work.
• Create a safe and secure environment in which students grow in both autonomy and the ability to work and play together including providing specific programs that establish a bias-free environment inclusive for all which focuses on eliminating cliques and establishing a climate where bullying is unacceptable.
• Design and implement programs that actively engage students in making connections solving problems and thinking independently. Ashbrook teachers receive significant freedom to design curriculum around the needs of their students!
• Teach to a variety of learning styles and intelligences and assess learning in a variety of ways including teaching to growing intellectual and social abilities of students as they mature and move up through the school.
• Employ a wide range of pedagogical techniques and assessment strategies to ensure all students are successfully challenged.
• Understand childrens patterns of physical intellectual social and emotional growth in order to support each childs emerging identity to respect and provide for each students voice and to build a relationship with each student in which that student feels understood nurtured and challenged.
• Defend the dignity and worth of each member of the community and create an environment that fosters respect understanding and acceptance of differences.
• Work to create a relationship with parents that facilitates the exchange of information necessary to ensure the childs progress including recognizing the implications of significant changes in children as they grow older. It is important that parents and teachers interact especially in programs that address issues affecting student development.
• Help students learn to make responsible choices and understand the consequences of their actions.
• Create age-appropriate opportunities for children to develop a sense of belonging and to become increasingly responsible for the many communities in which they live as well as their role in an interconnected and global society.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

The 4th Grade Teacher will:

• Plan flexible learning opportunities and curriculum to develop skills attitudes and knowledge needed to provide a good foundation for further education.
• Create and maintain a positive and caring classroom environment favorable to learning and personal growth to motivate students to become lifelong learners.
• Supervise and ensure the safety and health of children in the classroom.
• Collaborate with staff within thelower school program as well as with other staff throughout the school.
• Communicate proactively and positively with parents.
• Perform other related duties as required.
  
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or higher in Elementary Education.
• Knowledge of developmentally appropriate teaching strategies and curriculum designed to promote learning forelementary level students.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Able to use current instructional technology.
• PREFERRED: A minimum of two years of successful teaching experience in an elementary classroom.
• PREFERRED: Professional teacher licensure in good standing and that is transferable to the State of Oregon.

Compensation

Salary will be determined by experience and degree level in accordance with the current salary schedule.
Eligible for participation in flexible spending account and retirement plan as well as paid professional development and paid sick leave. Full medical and dental benefits provided to the staff member. Student of staff member receivesfree yearly tuition.

Apply

Your application should include a current resume cover letter and professional references.

The position is open until filled. Official start date: August 25 2025.

The cover letter should clearly articulate how you meet the qualifications of the position.

Ashbrook Independent School is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex national origin age disability marital status sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.

About the School

Ashbrook Independent School is a secular private coeducational institution whose mission is to Challenge and Nurture Academically Capable Students. The school includes a preschool an elementary school and a middle school.

Ashbrook Independent School believes that educational excellence occurs when a combination of outstanding teachers a clearly-defined curriculum with an emphasis on the arts and sciences small classes motivated students and a well- equipped learning environment co-exist. When these factors are in place students learn not only the joy of discovery but also traditional values such as courtesy enterprise self mastery and the importance of personal responsibility. Our programs support the Jeffersonian ideal of free citizens interacting voluntarily for the common good. Our hope is that in habits of mind an Ashbrook graduate will be ready for the twenty-first century: open-minded and curious yet able to evaluate ideas critically.

Ashbrooks educators continue to nourish childrens joy of discovery and passion for learning and to provide for all childrens social emotional physical intellectual and moral growth. Specifically for younger children it is important to give special attention to the mastery of those basic skills and concepts that are the foundation of all future learning. As children grow older they enter a period in their educational experience where they experience a variety of significant changesboth individually and collectively. The range of academic ability and physical and emotional development becomes wide.

For additional information on the history of Ashbrook and its programs please go to our website at .