Job Description Job Description Apply Now! St. Louis Catholic School is now accepting applications for a Catholic Montessori Guide in anticipation of a second Montessori class for the 2024-2025 school year. St. Louis Catholic School is located on a beautiful 22 acre campus in central Austin in what is now considered the geographic center of Austin, Texas. St. Louis Catholic School serves nearly 300 students in Montessori (ages 3-5), PK4-8th grade. St. Louis Catholic School has been dedicated to offerings families in our community a superb, faith-centered educational experience for 68 years. A Montessori Guide compassionately supports and aids the children in their spiritual, physical, moral, social and mental development. As an integral part of the prepared environment, the guide is foremost an observer trained to recognize the appropriate time to present materials and lessons to children to fulfill their developmental needs. The guide also serves as a model of the attitude and behaviors cultivated in the classroom community. These include: respect, kindness, patience, warmth and joy of learning. Their extensive training prepares them to negotiate the delicate balance of honoring the child's interests and independence while guiding the child to understand the limits of their independence that come from their responsibility to themselves, as well as the people and environment that surrounds them. Minimum Qualifications Education: * Bachelor's degree and Montessori certification from a Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education (MACTE) accredited program or * Associates in Early Childhood Education and Montessori certification from a MACTE accredited program * Minimum of three year's experience in a Montessori school - preferred * Minimum of one year as lead guide - preferred * Certified Catechist with the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd - preferred