Lower School Teacher

Peabody School seeks an experienced, creative, energetic, collaborative educator to serve as a grade one teacher beginning in August 2026.   

The ideal candidate will have at least three years of experience teaching at the elementary level, a strong academic background, a passion and talent for teaching elementary school students, the ability to develop student interest and enthusiasm for the subject matter, and the acumen to provide challenging and skillfully differentiated instruction for gifted and academically advanced students.  

 SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understands the academic, social, and emotional needs of academically advanced/gifted learners, and creates a learning environment that allows them the opportunity to activate their creativity and ingenuity

• Develops lesson plans, instructional objectives, and instructional materials, and provides individualized and small group instruction to adapt the curriculum to the needs of the students

• Creates and maintains a learning environment in which all students are actively engaged and are contributing members

• Facilitates, monitors, and assesses student learning appropriately and effectively

• Uses a broad repertoire of teaching skills and techniques

• Establishes and maintains standards of student behavior to achieve an effective learning atmosphere

• Works with other grade-level peer teachers to ensure continuity of subject matter

• Collaborates with faculty members and administration on a wide variety of projects

• Communicates regularly and professionally with parents, colleagues, and leadership
  
  

QUALIFICATIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS:

Qualified candidates should have an understanding and the ability to respond to the distinct needs of gifted students as well as:

• A bachelor’s degree. Advanced degree preferred.

• Three years of elementary grade teaching experience 

• Experience working with academically advanced/gifted children and/or a desire to work with gifted and academically advanced students

• Superior written and verbal communication skills 

• An understanding of best practices for teaching content area skills: reading, writing, social studies, math, and science.

• Ability to manage a classroom while pulling small groups to differentiate instruction

• Familiarity with independent school culture

• Knowledge of and desire to utilize authentic, age-appropriate technology integration

• Creative, energetic, and positive approach to teaching

• Ability and willingness to customize instruction within an established curricular framework

• Intellectual curiosity and an innate desire to continually reflect on and revise one’s teaching process