Hillside Montessori of LaGrange

LaGrange,GA, usa
Email: bethany.headrick@hillsidemontessorilagrange.com

Hillside Montessori Adolescent program

The Hillside Montessori Adolescent program is a well-established and thriving learning community within a supportive school community. The school has just moved onto a brand new 13-acre campus and is seeking an Adolescent Lead Guide to take over the founding Lead Guide’s position. The new campus offers an abundance of outdoor learning possibilities with indoor facilities designed specifically for and by Montessori guides. Thanks to an abundance of local resources, our learning experiences are filled with the arts, outdoor excursions, and dynamic speakers/demonstrators.

General Responsibilities:

The Hillside Montessori Adolescent Lead Guide (ALG) works with adolescents in grades 7-8. The Lead Guide must, first and foremost, deeply love and respect working with this age group and must be able to challenge and inspire the active minds and bodies of the adolescent. The Lead Guide must be intellectually curious, well grounded in a broad range of academic areas, have a wellspring of energy, a good sense of humor, and be able to communicate fairly and effectively with students and their parents.

As team leader, the ALG must be highly organized, a good listener, a keen observer, and diplomatic. The ALG should be conversant with the precepts of Montessori philosophy and seek to integrate them as much as possible within the curriculum. An integrated, interdisciplinary curriculum, developed with the other team members under the auspices of the ALG should provide students with a balance between self-directed and group learning activities.

The ALG must be willing to lead in a collaborative atmosphere, be open-minded, non-competitive and must be committed to developing a safe, comfortable place to learn and grow.