About the job
Empower toddlers to explore their potential!
At Guidepost Montessori, our Lead Toddler Guides foster serene and purposeful learning environments that nurture curiosity, independence, and confidence each day.
If you are passionate about early childhood education and eager to lead a classroom that promotes exploration and self-discovery, this is your chance to make a significant impact.
Your Role
As a Lead Toddler Guide, you will manage a mixed-age toddler classroom within a thoughtfully designed Montessori environment, supporting children through one of the most critical phases of their development.
Montessori educators create inviting, organized spaces that encourage exploration and foster independence. By observing closely and providing personalized lessons and respectful guidance, you will help each child enhance their language skills, coordination, self-regulation, and confidence.
Your leadership will inspire toddlers to explore freely, make choices, and take pride in their achievements, laying the groundwork for a lifelong love of learning.
What You’ll Do
- Closely observe each child to support their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth
- Prepare and maintain a beautiful, orderly classroom that encourages focus and independence
- Encourage toddlers to engage in self-directed activities
- Provide lessons in practical life skills, language development, and social etiquette
- Foster warm, trusting relationships with children and their families
- Communicate and work collaboratively with parents to support each child’s development
- Lead classroom routines and collaborate with team members to cultivate a respectful and joyful community
The Montessori Prepared Environment
Every Guidepost toddler classroom is equipped with high-quality Montessori materials, designed with principles of beauty, order, and independence in mind.
Our toddler environments include:
- Open spaces that promote movement and exploration
- Child-sized furniture and tools that encourage independence
- A curriculum that supports skills in dressing, feeding, and toilet learning
- Scientifically crafted materials for fine and gross motor development
- Natural elements that create a warm atmosphere, including cozy rugs and real plants
- Beautiful, breakable materials made from wood, metal, and glass
- Opportunities to climb, crawl, and discover without limitations