Merryhill School is a multi-location school group with campuses in California, Colorado, Nevada, and Texas offering an outstanding private education to preschool, elementary, and middle school age students. Our preschools offer the perfect balance of learning and play, while our elementary and middle schools provide a challenging and robust curriculum, innovative instruction, and a vibrant school community. A career with Merryhill offers opportunities in education, summer camps, before and after school programs, and regional management with the support of our parent company, Spring Education Group.
Preschool Multi-Classroom Teacher – Merryhill School
What We Offer
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid holidays and sick days
- 401k plan with company match
- Tuition discounts for your children
- Professional development
- Education reimbursement and partnerships
About the Role
As a Preschool Multi-Classroom Teacher at Merryhill School, you will help create a safe, nurturing, and developmentally rich environment for our youngest students. This dynamic position works across multiple preschool classrooms, supporting teachers and engaging students through purposeful play, hands-on learning, and developmentally appropriate activities. You will provide continuity and stability throughout the school by adapting to the needs of different classrooms and age groups. When a classroom has a vacancy or a teacher is unavailable, you may step into a lead teaching role to maintain established routines and ensure students continue receiving a consistent, high-quality learning experience.
You will also:
- Support multiple preschool classrooms based on daily staffing and program needs
- Implement developmentally appropriate curriculum and learning activities
- Step into a lead teaching role when needed to maintain continuity of instruction and classroom routines
- Foster students’ early literacy, language development, mathematical thinking, motor skills, and social-emotional growth
- Create a warm and engaging classroom environment that encourages curiosity, independence, and confidence
- Collaborate with classroom teachers and school leadership to support program goals and instructional consistency
- Assist with classroom management and provide positive, age-appropriate behavior guidance
- Supervise students and ensure their safety in classrooms, outdoor areas, and other school environments
- Maintain clean, organized, and engaging learning spaces
- Communicate positively and professionally with families, colleagues, and school leadership
- Ensure compliance with health and safety policies, licensing requirements, and developmental standards
- Participate in staff meetings, school events, and professional-development opportunities
What We’re Looking For
- 12 semester units or 18 quarter units in early childhood education, including coursework in child development, child/family/community, and curriculum; or a bachelor’s degree in Child Development
- Child Development Associate (CDA) credential preferred
- Prior experience working with preschool-aged children in an educational setting preferred
- Ability to work effectively across multiple classrooms, age groups, and instructional environments
- Strong communication, collaboration, and classroom-management skills
- Patience, adaptability, compassion, and a genuine enthusiasm for working with young children
- Ability to support a safe, nurturing, and developmentally appropriate learning environment
- Ability to meet the physical demands of working with young children, including sitting on the floor, bending, lifting, and participating in active play
- Ability to successfully complete all required background-check and state-licensing requirements
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. In general, this position requires an individual to frequently walk, stand, sit, squat, stoop, reach, kneel, rise from the floor, twist, listen, read, write, and speak the English language. In addition, this position often requires an individual to carry, lift, use repetitive or fine hand movements, and occasionally push, pull, or bend. This position is regularly required to hear and use clear vision with or without correction. Spring Education Group, including, but not limited to SEG Inc., and their affiliates (collectively “Company”) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants for employment and employees are provided equal employment opportunities, including in recruitment, hiring, and assignment, without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion and religious creed, sex (including pregnancy and related conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital or familial status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, genetic information, military/veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. The Company expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee or student harassment or discrimination.
