Part-Time Mixed Age Kindergarten Lead Teacher

About the job

Position : Mixed age K-1 Lead Teacher (2025-2026)

Hours: Class time 9:30-2:30, M-Th, Mid-September-May (32 weeks total) plus set up, clean up, and at home preparation as needed

Pay: $24,000-$35,000 per year, commensurate with experience

Join us if you are a Waldorf teacher or teacher in training seeking a part-time position within a community of dedicated teachers, supportive families, and a flat structure school system.

New Earth Traditions Homeschool Enrichment is seeking an energetic, collaborative, and warm-hearted teacher, knowledgeable and experienced in the ideals of Waldorf education, who would like to join a vibrant and connected homeschool community. We are a group of dedicated faculty and staff committed to providing our students with opportunities for a developmentally nourishing education and dynamic learning while making room for pedagogical flexibility amongst our families. 

Our Mission: Supporting education & development in a modern-ancestral way.

New Earth Traditions is a homeschool enrichment group currently serving students from Pre-K to age 14 with a developmentally appropriate, multidisciplinary, hands-on experience intended to enrich families’ homeschool education. Abundant time learning and playing in nature combines with our indoor classrooms to allow for creativity and multifaceted educational experiences. We aim to support families and children throughout the entirety of their schooling, cultivating thoughtful, emotionally intelligent, respectful and creative young people. We seek leaders who are excited to be on this journey with us.

We seek an individual who:

• Displays a warm and nurturing disposition
• Enjoys building healthy relationships with parents, students, and colleagues
• Has excellent teaching, classroom management, and communication skills
• Possesses a deep understanding of students, their development, learning styles, and needs.
• Is self-directed, creative, artistic, collaborative, as well as knowledgeable of and inspired by Waldorf education.
• Prioritizes personal work, personal and professional growth, and overall health.
• Has the ability to teach and help foster young children’s development with the understanding that young children learn primarily through imitation. 

Required Credentials:

• Commitment to and experience in working with mixed age (5-7 year old) K-1 students.
• Waldorf teacher certification, or Waldorf classroom experience and interest and willingness to participate in self-led learning and guided teacher development training in the Waldorf/Steiner pedagogy. 
• Ability to pass criminal and child abuse background checks. 
• CPR/ First Aid Certified

Position Expectations:

• Prepare a developmentally-appropriate Waldorf program and rhythm for indoors and outdoors in mixed age class (5-7 year olds) by preparing and leading daily activities such as circle, imaginative play, story & puppetry, handcrafts, painting, practical home-like activities, snack, and outdoor free play and activities
• Participate in all-school and festival activities and events
• Cultivate strong relationships with parents through regular communication, parent-teacher conferences, parent enrichment meetings, and end of year reports.
• Maintains positive relationships with parents and responds to concerns
• Develop and maintain a safe, harmonious, and nurturing environment for the children to learn and develop. Guiding and redirecting children’s behavior while maintaining self-esteem.
• Develop and maintain a clean, orderly classroom environment
• Presents a professional image, worthy of imitation
• Maintains positive relationships with parents and responds to all parent concerns
• Maintains positive, professional relationships with colleagues and responds to all collegial concerns
• Engages in on-going professional and personal growth
• Fulfills other duties, as assigned, relative to the job responsibilities

Supervisory Responsibilities

Train and oversee work of the assistant teacher and provide on-going mentoring

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk, talk, and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing. The employee must frequently lift and/or move items up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Location: Pottstown, PA 19465

Hours: This is a FTE < 0.50 position. The hours of the teacher's day are 8:30a.m.-3:00 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from mid-September through May, with scheduled holiday breaks throughout. In addition, teachers attend regular staff meetings and periodic development training as well as some evening and weekend meetings/events. Time commitments also include parent/teacher correspondence. Teachers are responsible for planning and preparing, setting up, and cleaning up planned class activities with the help of a teacher’s assistant.

Compensation: $24,000-$35,000 based on level of education, experience, and select professional development training.

Working Conditions:

New Earth Traditions Homeschool Enrichment welcomes, values, and supports ethnic, religious, economic and cultural diversity. We respect personal freedoms and maintain an environment for the children that is free from adult and politically driven topics. Preserving the innocence of childhood, promoting healthy social, emotional, and physical development, and providing a developmentally appropriate education are the key tenets of our program. 

Visit our website: newearthtraditions.com

To Apply: Send a letter of interest, resume, and three professional references to [email protected]

For inquiries: [email protected]