Careers

Benefits of working at CMS

• Receive funding for authentic Montessori training to earn your AMI Diploma.
• The opportunity for continuing education and professional development keeps our faculty at the top of their field.
• Our beautiful, sunlit facility is situated on five acres in the St. Louis suburb of Chesterfield, including tennis and basketball courts, playgrounds and children’s garden.
• Classrooms are open, inviting, well organized, and equipped with the full spectrum of materials developed by Dr. Maria Montessori.
• Be a part of shaping and educating globally-minded innovators from all different walks of life.
• Opportunities to connect with colleagues and the greater Montessori community for professional development.
• Administration fosters a collaborative, solution-oriented environment that values each employee’s insights.
  

Nap and Extended Day Classroom Assistant

Full-time, on-site role for an enthusiastic, compassionate educational professional to join our growing team of Montessorians. Classroom assistants support the lead guides in a variety of ways. A few examples include: acting as role models for Grace and Courtesy, maintaining beauty and order in the classroom, actively engaging the children during free play/recess/extended care time, keeping the children safe, and more. This job requires experience working with children, emotional awareness, patience, compassion, and outstanding interpersonal, observational, and communication skills. Competitive salary and excellent benefits including 100% paid employee health, vision and dental, generous paid time off, retirement matching and more.

Long-term Substitute

We're searching for a creative educational professional to join our growing team of Montessorians as a long-term substitute in our upper elementary classroom. We offer an extraordinary working environment, with supportive colleagues and a wonderful international community of families in a beautiful facility. This job requires experience working with children, emotional awareness, patience, compassion, and outstanding interpersonal, observational, and communication skills. Our team members have a growth mindset and a collaborative approach to working with colleagues and parents. Exposure to Montessori educational philosophy is preferred.

AMI Teacher Training Sponsorship Program

CMS provides authentic Montessori education at all levels of learning. We are recognized by Association Montessori International at the Toddler, Primary and Elementary levels, which means that our teachers in those classrooms must have AMI Diplomas. In order to ensure that we have a pipeline of highly qualified people to serve our classrooms as our school grows, we regularly sponsor people to receive Association Montessori International training. Through the sponsorship program, the school pays for tuition and books at one of the AMI Training Centers in the form of a loan that is forgiven over time.

The opportunity to receive funding for your authentic Montessori training and AMI Diploma is ideal for candidates looking for enriching and engaging professional experiences. Learn more about how your skills and interests can coincide with Montessori philosophy at CMS by contacting us.

Our Employee and Community Commitments 

• We are equitable in our treatment of the children and each other.
• We communicate clearly, directly, in a timely and respectful manner.
• We allow the children to learn through experience.
• We understand that everyone makes mistakes.
• We recognize the unique gifts of each member of our community: children, families and staff.
• We are role models of Grace & Courtesy for the children, in and out of the classroom.
• We help each other grow.
• We are mindful of the energy we bring into each space and interaction.
• We demonstrate respect and compassion for the children, families, each other and ourselves.
• We talk to each other, not about each other.
• We empower the children to realize their potential.
• We have each other’s backs.
• We celebrate the rich diversity of our community.
• We invest in relationships, seeking to understand each other.