The Children's Workshop Oakland is a small, highly creative and intensely collaborative Reggio-inspired preschool program located within short walking distance from the Lakeshore side of Lake Merritt and BART/AC Transit routes.

CWO has a reputation for attracting the best and the brightest early childhood educators whose creativity, attention to detail, conscientiousness and initiative-taking make it possible for our teaching teams to exercise the broadest range of artistic and intellectual freedom when designing and implementing novel, inquiry-driven and emergent project-based learning experiences for our students.

We are currently interviewing candidates for the following positions with immediate start dates:

• Full Time 3s Co-Teacher - 7:30am-4:00pm or 9:30am-6:00pm
• Part Time Afternoon Floating Teacher - Noon - 6:00pm

Please provide the following information when applying for any of our available positions:

• Please specify the position that you are applying for in your reply.
• Please include your resume and a detailed cover letter describing your experience and your interest in the position.
• Please specify your desired hourly rate of compensation. Salary commensurate with experience and demonstrable ability at time of interview.

All applicants must have a minimum of 6-12 ECE units completed or be willing to complete 6-12 ECE units within the first year of employment to maintain a permanent teaching position at CWO. We fully reimburse in state tuition expenses and provide mentoring and support for new teachers as they work to obtain their Child Development permits.

Our program offers competitive compensation, 6+ weeks of paid vacation, comprehensive benefits and the opportunity to work with children ages 2-5 years old in a beautiful, largely outdoor setting within a dynamic, supportive and personally/professionally growth-oriented collegial environment. And our teaching team's ingenuity and spirit of collaborative problem solving has enabled us to surmount ongoing pandemic-related challenges and safely continue to provide stable and compassionate employment for our staff and reliable, nurturing care for our families.

COVID Safety Precautions

Although our campus briefly closed for four months when the initial COVID-19 shelter in place ordinance was issued in March of 2020, we were able to reopen safely in June with a robust modified COVID operating plan in place that continues to exceed CDC, Alameda County Public Health Department, Community Care Licensing and state recommendations for public health, safety and mitigation of Coronavirus transmission.

Operating in small, separate and stable classroom cohorts of 10-12 students to 2 teachers with additional sanitizing protocols has made it possible for us to confidently and safely continue to operate throughout the COVID 19 pandemic and all of our current staff members and the majority of members within our parent community-staff, parents and students-have now been vaccinated.

Minimum qualifications for teaching at CWO:

• Experience designing and implementing age appropriate curriculum and providing hands-on instruction for preschoolers (2-5 years old) and/or early elementary school age children (K-2);
• Willingness to teach while wearing a face covering or kn95 mask indoors and implement other ongoing COVID-related procedures, such as student temperature/symptom checks;
• Ability to lead instruction for small groups of 6-8 students and whole groups of up to 12 students;
• Ability to demonstrate effective classroom management skills such as:
• • Proactive supervision of and engagement with groups of young children—active circulation throughout the classroom while verbally/physically guiding children’s behavior;
  • • Offering children clear, consistent choices and ensuring adequate follow through;
    • Exhibiting nuanced understanding of what classroom management should look like in a responsive language program:
    • • How to speak with children in a calm, assertive manner that is respectful and nurturing;
      • How to proactively engage children in constructive, stimulating dialogue while assisting with and/or supervising activities;
      • How to “narrate the day,” providing children with proactive verbal instruction/guidance for what to do (and why) at all times.
• Developing and implementing a variety of differentiated, situation/child-specific instructional styles (as needed) based upon children’s energy levels, personalities, learning needs, etc.;
• Appropriately scaffolding children’s learning and use of classroom materials/indoor/outdoor space;
• Effectively anticipating potential problem moments/areas/conflicts between children and taking the opportunity to offer guidance to help the children successfully express their needs/wants in prosocial ways;
• Effectively adapting language use (word choice and phrasing) to be age/developmentally appropriate and well suited to individual personalities/natures of children being addressed;
• Collaborative, team player;
• Imaginative and nurturing personality;
• Genuine interest in caring for young children;
• Physical fortitude needed to actively engage with preschool age children while supervising play and facilitating teacher-led activities;
• Demonstrated ability to fulfill teaching duties energetically and efficiently, with an appropriate sense of speed/urgency;
• Child Development Permit or willingness to enroll in a minimum of 6 ECE units per semester until core units required to obtain Child Development Permit are achieved.

Desired Qualifications:

• Creative arts background
• Knowledge of Reggio, inquiry-driven and project-based learning practices;
• Familiarity with responsive language practices;
• Musical talent/ability to sing and play a musical instrument/accompany children's singing.