IB PYP Elementary School Teacher
Job Description
Job DescriptionDescription:
Pine Street School is hiring for the 2025-2026 school year!
Starting August 1, 2025
We are looking for elementary teachers who are eager to learn about and implement the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program! Our school welcomes people ready to learn, contribute and collaborate together in order to co-create a curriculum that is significant, relevant, engaging and challenging. Our teachers are dedicated to supporting the growth and development of young people with the skills, knowledge and compassion necessary to face and overcome some of our greatest challenges. Our global community will require open-minded and flexible thinkers with the ability to problem solve and strategize through challenges. We share the belief that a multilingual and multicultural education allows our students to make connections across cultures, open doors and break down barriers.
ABOUT PINE STREET SCHOOL
Pine Street School, a member of Green Ivy Schools, is an internationally-minded community dedicated to providing an innovative, engaging, multilingual, and multicultural education that inspires and empowers our students to take mindful action for equity and the environment, making a positive impact on the world. We prioritize authentic student learning, activism, community engagement, and ethical enthusiasm for emerging technology. We offer both Spanish and Mandarin immersion programs for students in grades preschool through 8th grade. Effective Fall of 2025, we will be offering a German language track for intermediate to advanced German language-speakers in our middle school.
ABOUT YOU
- Passionate about innovative global education and language immersion
- Committed to inquiry-driven, constructivist teaching practices
- Nurturing communicator with a collaborative mindset
- Embraces diversity and thrives in inclusive, global settings
- Eager to grow professionally and implement effective teaching strategies
- Skilled in assessing student learning and using data to inform instruction
- Tech-savvy and integrates technology purposefully
- Values city-as-classroom and service learning experiences
- Organized, proactive, and dependable with a strong work ethic
- Consistently exceeds expectations
HOW YOU WILL SUPPORT PINE STREET SCHOOL STUDENTS
- Plan and employ appropriate, trans-disciplinary learning experiences for individual, small and whole group instruction using various teaching methods appropriate for language immersion settings
- Collaborate with colleagues to develop the school's ethos and support relationships amongst students of all ages
- Guide and support parents through the rich and complex experience of the curriculum, helping them learn what their children are capable of and how they can best support them in our program
- Actively utilize New York City as a resource for learning and involve your students in sustainable community service projects and experiences
- Maximize student language learning by utilizing the target language consistently in the classroom and collaborate with other language team members to develop and improve our language practices
- Implement technology as tool that empowers learners to broaden the expression of an idea, innovate, solve a problem, learn something new, verify information, and communicate and collaborate with others
- Work with students individually and in groups, by selecting and employing various teaching methods appropriate for language immersion settings.
- Take responsibility for preparing materials and classrooms for activities, including photocopying, laminating, etc.
BENEFITS
Green Ivy International Schools are dedicated to attracting, developing, rewarding, and retaining a world-class faculty. Our goal is to create a welcoming culture of inclusion and belonging for our internationally diverse community of teachers, administrators, and staff. We place high priority on advances in compensation, benefits, and work climate.
- Health, Dental, Vision, Disability and Life insurance plans
- Generous paid time off policies
- 401K retirement account with up to 4% matching
- Tuition discounts to children of employees
- Professional development and training
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in subject area(s), Master’s degree is highly desired
- Experience: Minimum of three (3) years elementary teaching experience
- Expereince with the IB PYP strongly preferred
- A valid teaching certification (or equivalent) for Elementary Education
- Fluent proficiency in English (reading, writing, speaking)
- Strong experience with Apple technology implementation