Careers

Discover job openings at North American Montessori, a family-owned and operated Montessori preschool and daycare with 3 locations in the Greater St Louis area.

The Centre at Conway

13725 Conway Road,
St. Louis, MO 63141
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Casa Dia Montessori Mehlville

610 Kinswood Lane,
St. Louis, MO 63129
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Casa Dia Montessori Crestwood

10109 Watson Road,
St. Louis, MO 63129
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Career Opportunities & Openings

We are looking for caring, dedicated individuals to join our daycare and preschool community.   At North American Montessori, we work to provide a safe, friendly environment for our children and staff. Learn more about our open child care positions below.

Child Care Lead Teacher

Ideal candidate must be able to: follow all Childcare State of Missouri Rules and Regulations and company policy; physically (lift, squat, walk/stand for long periods of time) and mentally work with children in a center setting; provide TB/physical clearance from a physician; have clean background checks; and be willing to complete 12 hours of continuing education each year. All candidates should be flexible with classroom assignments and if overtime is necessary. Candidates are expected to provide a safe and nurturing environment, follow a classroom schedule, and take initiative in self and professional development to enhance student learning.
Work Remotely
  • No
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $16.00 – $19.00 per hour (depending on education/experience)
Benefits:
  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Employee discount
  • Health insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Professional development assistance
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Flexible hours for candidates who are enrolled in college/university
Schedule:
  • 4 hour shift
  • 8 hour shift
  • Day shift
  • Monday to Friday
  • No weekends
Education Required:
  • High school or GED
Experience/Education Preferred:
  • at least 1 year traditional or Montessori setting experience/education
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Child Care Assistant Teacher

Ideal candidate must be able to: follow all Childcare State of Missouri Rules and Regulations and company policy; physically (lift, squat, walk/stand for long periods of time) and mentally work with children in a center setting; provide TB/physical clearance from a physician; have clean background checks; and be willing to complete 12 hours of continuing education each year. All candidates should be flexible with classroom assignments and if overtime is necessary. Candidates are expected to provide a safe and nurturing environment, follow a classroom schedule, and take initiative in self and professional development to enhance student learning.
Work Remotely
  • No
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $16.00 – $19.00 per hour (depending on education/experience)
Benefits:
  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Employee discount
  • Health insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Professional development assistance
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Flexible hours for candidates who are enrolled in college/university
Schedule:
  • 4 hour shift
  • 8 hour shift
  • Day shift
  • Monday to Friday
  • No weekends
Education Required:
  • High school or GED
Experience/Education Preferred:
  • at least 1 year traditional or Montessori setting experience/education
APPLY NOW

Child Care Full Time Teacher

Full time assistant teacher to Toddler aged students with a classroom ratio of 1:4 and a maximum class size of 8. The Centre at Conway’s Toddler program follows a Montessori based curriculum in fusion with the traditional play-based approach.

Ideal candidate must:

  • Be physically and mentally able to work in a center setting
  • Meet basic needs of children in classroom
  • Experience/education in a Toddler aged classroom preferred.
  • Remain professional with coworkers and management
  • Remain professional with parents and future clients
  • Report to immediate supervisor or center director
  • Team player
  • Responsible and with good judgment
  • Caring and honest
  • Be willing to complete all state required training annually.
  • Have a clean background check, including having fingerprints taken.
  • Complete a TB test requirement and medical physical.

Job Type: Full Time

Location: Centre at Conway

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Toddler Full Time Assistant Teacher

Full time teacher to work in our Transition aged classrooms (ages 7 months to 14 months)
Ideal candidate must:
  • be physically and mentally able to work in a center setting
  • meet basic needs of children in classroom
  • experience/education in Infant aged classrooms preferred.
  • remain professional with coworkers and management
  • remain professional with parents and future clients
  • report to immediate supervisor or center director
  • team player
  • responsible and with good judgement
  • caring and honest
  • be willing to complete all state required training annually.
  • have a clean background check, including having fingerprints taken.
  • complete a TB clearance requirement and medical physical.

Our Daycares Are Hiring, Apply Today!

If you would like to join the North American Montessori team, apply now!

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What Is the Montessori Method?

This system of education is both a philosophy of child development and a rationale for guiding such growth. It is based on the children’s developmental needs for freedom within limits, as well as a carefully prepared environment that guarantees exposure to materials and experiences. Through this, children develop intelligence as well as physical and psychological abilities. It is designed to take full advantage of a child’s desire to learn and their unique ability to develop their own capabilities. Children need adults to expose them to the possibilities of their life, but children must determine their response to those possibilities.

The main premises of Montessori education are:

  • Children are to be respected as different from adults and as individuals who differ from each other.
  • Children possess an unusual sensitivity and intellectual ability to absorb and learn from their environment that are unlike those of the adult both in quality and capacity.
  • The most important years of a child’s growth are the first six years of life when unconscious learning is gradually brought to the conscious level.
  • Children have a deep love and need for purposeful work. They work, however, not as an adult for completion of a job, but the sake of an activity itself. It is this activity that enables them to accomplish their most important goal: the development of oneself — their mental, physical, and psychological powers.

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