Extended Program Staff

Extended Program Teacher Children’s Day School (CDS) is a co-educational preschool through eighth grade school serving over 470 students in the Mission Dolores neighborhood of San Francisco.

Spanning two campuses, and home to a diverse community of students, faculty, and families, CDS is a vibrant learning community.

Our teachers practice constructivist teaching; born of “learning by doing,” it is how we achieve excellent academics.

We believe by encouraging children to fully engage in complex topics, and in myriad ways we are giving them tools to become lifelong learners and passionate citizens of the world.

To learn more about CDS, visit our website at www.cds-sf.org .

CDS is located on a beautiful, secluded half-acre in the Mission near Dolores Park.

Our Extended Day program employs the use of indoor classrooms, environmental ed. kitchen, wood chips area and climbing structure, farm and garden (featuring eleven chickens and two sheep), and a play yard among the largest of independent schools in the city.   The Role We are looking for experienced youth development workers to be available to join our \ afterschool program team.

Reporting to the Extended Program Director, the substitute instructor is responsible for supervising students in grades K – 8 and supporting the operation of the program.

Standard work hours would be 2pm-6pm.

There are opportunities to also step in to sub in classrooms based on a flexible on-call basis and staff vacation camps.

This is a unique opportunity that would allow instructors to increase their hours in a way that works best for their daily schedules.

Requirements The successful candidate will have :

• High School Associate’s degree (AA) or equivalent preferred Experience teaching or leading youth activities and excellent classroom management.
• Excellent interpersonal skills as well as a great sense of humor.
• Demonstrate the ability to take initiative, work passionately and joyfully, and collaborate effectively with colleagues, students and parents.
• Express the desire and ability to take on increasing responsibility in the classroom and the CDS community, and to participate generously.
• Strong commitment to building a learning community where the people, culture and curriculum reflect the racial, ethnic, economic and family diversity of San Francisco.
• Possess dynamic problem-solving and communication skills.

Be proficient in technology :