Mackintosh Academy, an International Baccalaureate World School for gifted and creative students in Littleton, CO, is looking for qualified candidates to fill an opening for a full-time first grade lead teacher for the 2024-2025 school year.
Mackintosh Academy was founded in 1977 as Colorado's first school for gifted students and serves 130 students in pre-K through eighth grades. Mackintosh Academy’s mission is to nurture the keen minds and compassionate hearts of the gifted child in a responsive and caring community of learners. Our students mature into confident, healthy human beings inspired to contribute to a world that needs them.
We are one of the Denver area's few authorized International Baccalaureate (IB) independent schools to offer both a Primary Years Programme (PYP) and Middle Years Programme (MYP). As an authorized IB World School, Mackintosh Academy’s mission also aligns with the IB program’s mission, “to create a better world through education.”
Please learn more about our unique school at our website to see if Mackintosh’s environment may be a place for you to grow in your professional journey and be a contributing member of our educational family.
Requested Qualifications:
Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Education
Colorado Teaching Certificate (highly preferred)
A minimum of five years teaching experience with lower elementary students, preferably with gifted students
Understanding of inquiry-based teaching and learning, the International Baccalaureate program, IB training, and experience teaching gifted children, including twice-exceptional students, or a keen, dedicated interest in developing your skills and understandings in these pedagogies.
The ability to:
Effectively employ current teaching and assessment monitoring strategies for reading, writing, and mathematics
Utilize with ease interdisciplinary, inquiry, and concept-based pedagogy
Develop and implement lesson plans based on Mackintosh and IB standards and objectives
Support our educational philosophy (see website for information)
Adjust classroom management and instruction based on classroom or individual student needs
Understand gifted development, including twice-exceptional students
Be organized, flexible, and adapt to needs of a small school where faculty members work collaboratively and fill various roles
Perform classroom administrative tasks effectively
Provide effective and timely feedback/assessment to students
Recognize and enjoy the unique talents of children
Provide regular communication about programming and students' progress to parents and students
Start Date: August 1, 2024
Pay Range: $50-68,000. Salary consideration is given for seniority, merit, quality, education, and experience.
Mackintosh partners with a PEO (Professional Employer Organization) for services regarding human resources, benefits, and payroll. A wide range of benefits and products are offered including:
Benefit continuation/conversion at termination (COBRA)
Bereavement leave
Dental insurance
Holiday pay
Jury duty leave
Life/AD&D insurance
Medical insurance
Personal leave
Simple IRA pension plan
Family medical leave
Sick/Personal leave
Tuition remission
To apply, send an email with your cover letter and resume to:
Beth Steklac, Head of School: [email protected]
Equal Employment Opportunity
Mackintosh does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion or creed, sex, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.
