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The school selects highly qualified and motivated life-long learners who are eager to instruct and mentor based on educational research and for whom our Christian principles are a good fit.
Open Positions
Presbyterian Day School seeks a qualified candidate to teach 4th grade math for the 2025–2026 school year. The candidate should have a passion for teaching elementary boys, understand strategies that address the unique learning styles of boys, and be committed to a learning environment that fosters creativity and promotes critical thinking skills. The candidate should have a strong desire to engage with fourth-grade boys on a daily basis, encouraging them not only academically but also socially, emotionally, and spiritually.
The successful candidate will possess both skills and experience in the following areas:
- Appreciates and models the distinctly Christian mission of PDS
- Holds appropriate college degree or degrees (advanced degree preferred)
- Has a minimum of three years experience teaching experience
- Communicates student learning with parents and larger PDS community
- Collaborates effectively with colleagues to create integrated curriculum opportunities
- Embraces technology
- Promotes a positive and supportive school culture
- Has a passion for being around, working with, and getting to know and celebrate boys
- Possesses strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
Interested applicants should submit a cover letter, resume, and application.
Presbyterian Day School seeks qualified candidates to teach boys for the 2025–2026 school year. The candidate should have a passion for teaching readers, writers, and mathematicians in a multi-sensory classroom environment and possess a deep understanding and love for children in the younger years of elementary development. The candidate should also be ready to enthusiastically match the energy displayed by young boys. Previous training in Orton-Gillingham or Slingerland methods of multi-sensory education is ideal.
The successful candidate will possess both skills and experience in the following areas:
- Appreciates and models the distinctly Christian mission of PDS
- Demonstrates a commitment to improving student learning in a self-contained classroom environment
- Engages students with learning activities which promote critical and creative thinking skills
- Uses a variety of instructional strategies and designs learning experiences that address the unique learning styles of boys
- Promotes a positive, supportive, and collaborative classroom and school culture
- Has a minimum of 3 years classroom experience
- Holds appropriate college degree or degrees (advanced degree preferred)
- Possesses strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
Interested applicants should submit a cover letter, resume, and application.
Presbyterian Day School seeks a qualified candidate to teach Mandarin in grades 3–6. The ideal candidate will have experience teaching Mandarin at the elementary level, a strong commitment to educational excellence, and a desire to teach and inspire students in a faith-based setting.
The ideal candidate will have the following responsibilities, experiences, and skills:
- Creates a dynamic classroom setting in which students are immersed in the Mandarin language thus acquiring the ability to speak, read, and write in Mandarin, with a particular focus on oral proficiency in real-life contexts
- Ignites students’ enthusiasm for language learning as well as Chinese culture and history
- Uses strategies and creates activities that address the diverse learning needs of boys, fosters creativity, and encourages critical thinking
- Provides multiple methods of assessment that demonstrate understanding and language growth
- Communicates student learning with parents and larger PDS community
- Collaborates effectively with colleagues to create integrated curriculum opportunities
- Promotes a positive and supportive school culture
- Has a passion for being around, working with, and getting to know and celebrate boys
- Appreciates and models the distinctly Christian mission of PDS
- Holds a degree in a related field; a Master’s degree is preferred
- Strong proficiency in Mandarin, both written and spoken
- Possesses strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
Interested applicants should submit a cover letter, resume, and application.
Presbyterian Day School seeks college educated candidates for substitute teaching positions.
Interested applicants should submit a cover letter, resume, and application.
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The school invests significant resources in teacher training and professional development.
- Over the last nine years, the school has sent over 85% of PDS teachers to Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
- The school invests heavily and aggressively in professional development.
- The school provides summer grants for curriculum study and international travel.
- Teachers participate in school-wide summer reading.
- New teachers are assigned a mentor teacher to guide them through the first year at PDS.
- Teachers occupy leadership positions as facilitators of teacher book groups, instructional team chairs, committee chairs, and grade level lead teachers.
- Teachers attend workshops, seminars, and institutes.
- Teachers are encouraged to share their expertise as conference presenters (have done so in South Africa and New Zealand and throughout U.S.).
- Teachers network with other experts in the field of education by participating in action research and visiting other schools.
- Teachers are encouraged to seek graduate degrees, and PDS offsets some of the cost toward that end.
- Teachers are a mix of veteran, mid-career and young teachers who all contribute richly to the school community and our on-going conversation about what it means to be well educated in the 21st century.
- Teachers are given both support and flexibility and the opportunity to exercise curricular leadership in a stimulating professional environment.
PDS provides significant technological resources for boys and teachers:
- Every classroom has a SmartBoards to encourage a higher degree creative and flexibility in teaching.
- Every classroom has access to a student laptop carts for PK-6th grade.
- Three technology curriculum specialists support teachers in their efforts to integrate technology into their teaching.
- PDS provides every teacher a laptop for school use.
PDS graduates eventually matriculate at many of our nation’s most competitive universities, and our alumni have distinguished themselves as scholars and leaders around the country.
PDS offers a very competitive compensation package.
PDS invites applications for consideration for jobs that may be available in the fall.
Interested applicants should submit a resume, transcript, transcript, background check authorization, and job application including a philosophy of education where applicable for consideration. Typically, applications are reviewed in late winter and early spring. Due to the competitive nature of the applicant pool, it is advisable that interested applicants apply as early as possible. After careful review, a select group of applicants will be contacted for a first round interview.
For more information contact:
Carissa Lacy
Head of Early Childhood (YK-SK)
Laura Glenn
Head of Elementary School Division (1st-6th)