Job Description
Position: VPK / PreK 4 Teacher
School Faculty - Preschool - St. James Catholic School VPK / PreK 4 Teacher
Published: 12/09/2025
St. James Catholic School in North Miami, Florida, is hiring a candidate qualified to join our talented and professional team as a VPK/Pre-K4 Teacher for the current 2025-26 school year. The applicant must be a nurturing, creative, and dedicated professional with the ability to develop lessons that cultivate critical thinking skills, design instructions to motivate and engage all learners, and develop thematic units.
The VPK/ Pre-K4 Teacher performs all duties and responsibilities in alignment with the mission, vision, and values of the Catholic Archdiocese of Miami. Salary will vary based on education and years of experience.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor degree required, preferred in Early Childhood Education.
• Preferably have CDA or higher.
• Minimum of 2 years' experience working in a pre-school classroom.
• Must have begun Part 1 and 2 of DCF training, having taken the competency exam for Part 1.
• Has taken all DCF VPK pre-requisite classes.
• After one year must have State 40 hours' childcare training with DCF completed, with all competency exams.
• Universal Precautions/ Exposure Plan course form DCF.
• Safe Sleep/ Shaken Baby Syndrome Training.
• Current CPR course.
• Proficiency in computer skills and email functions.
• Strength in creating a warm, welcoming environment for students and families. Ability to provide a hands-on approach enabling children to discover, learn, and critically solve problems about the world.
• Must be of good moral character and supportive and respectful of the mission and tenets of the Roman Catholic Church; experience in Roman Catholic environment preferred.
• Knowledge of basic tenets of Catholic Church.
Subject line should read: VPK/ PreK 4 Teacher.
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