Assistant Preschool Teacher
Austin
Assistant Preschool Teacher
Full Time • Austin
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Bonus based on performance
- Competitive salary
- Dental insurance
- Employee discounts
- Flexible schedule
- Free food & snacks
- Health insurance
- Opportunity for advancement
- Paid time off
- Training & development
- Vision insurance
Assistant Preschool Teacher | Early Childhood Education
Lupine Lane | Lakeway, TX | Full-Time
A place where children—and teachers—can grow and flourish.
At Lupine Lane, we believe children are naturally curious, capable, creative, and full of possibility. We're looking for a warm, dependable, enthusiastic Assistant Preschool Teacher to join our early childhood teaching team!
Located in the beautiful Rough Hollow community of Lakeway, Lupine Lane is an established, family-founded private preschool offering a thoughtful, project-based approach to early childhood education.
We believe meaningful learning happens through relationships, exploration, creativity, play, and real-world experiences. We're seeking an educator who shares these beliefs and finds joy in helping young children discover what they're capable of.
🌱 Why Teach at Lupine Lane?
We value our teachers as educators, creative thinkers, and essential members of our school community.
Our benefits include:
- Competitive compensation based on experience and qualifications
- A school calendar with scheduled breaks throughout the year, aligned with the Lake Travis ISD calendar
- Opportunity to accrue paid time off
- Health, dental, and vision insurance for eligible employees
- 401(k) with employer matching for eligible employees
- Professional development and opportunities for growth
- Employee discounts and additional benefits
- A collaborative, supportive school community
- Opportunities to contribute your creativity, ideas, and talents to classroom experiences
🎨 About the Position
As an Assistant Teacher at Lupine Lane, you'll work alongside a Lead Teacher and fellow educators to create a warm, engaging, and developmentally appropriate environment where children feel safe, respected, capable, and excited to learn.
You'll play an active role in children's daily experiences, supporting their independence, creativity, relationships, and developing skills.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Building warm, trusting, and responsive relationships with children.
- Collaborating with the Lead Teacher to implement engaging, project-based Topic Studies and meaningful learning experiences.
- Supporting children's emerging independence, communication, creativity, problem-solving, and social-emotional development.
- Guiding children through everyday challenges with patience, empathy, consistency, and developmentally appropriate expectations.
- Helping prepare and maintain an inviting classroom environment that encourages exploration, discovery, and meaningful play.
- Actively engaging with children during classroom activities, outdoor play, transitions, meals, and daily routines.
- Observing children's interests and developmental progress and sharing insights with the teaching team.
- Supporting children's health, safety, hygiene, and personal care needs with kindness and respect.
- Communicating thoughtfully and professionally with colleagues, school leadership, and families.
- Contributing ideas, creativity, and initiative to support the classroom community.
💛 Who We're Looking For
Our ideal candidate:
- Genuinely enjoys working with young children and finds meaning in early childhood education.
- Is warm, patient, dependable, enthusiastic, and nurturing.
- Understands that children's behavior is a form of communication and values positive, respectful guidance.
- Is actively engaged with children and comfortable participating in play, exploration, and hands-on learning.
- Takes initiative, notices what needs to be done, and contributes thoughtfully to the classroom.
- Works collaboratively with colleagues while also demonstrating independence and sound judgment.
- Communicates professionally, respectfully, and openly.
- Is flexible, reflective, and willing to learn and grow.
- Shares our commitment to treating children, families, and colleagues with kindness and respect.
Previous experience working with young children is preferred. Education or training in early childhood development is valued, but we also welcome candidates who demonstrate a genuine passion for working with children and a commitment to learning.
🌼 Come Grow With Us!
At Lupine Lane, we believe early childhood education is profoundly important work. Every member of our teaching team helps shape the foundation for children's relationships, confidence, curiosity, and lifelong love of learning.
We're looking for someone who wants to do more than simply work in a preschool—we're looking for someone who wants to make a meaningful difference in children's lives and be part of a community that values learning, creativity, connection, and growth.
If you're an educator who believes young children deserve respect, meaningful experiences, thoughtful guidance, and the freedom to explore their world, we'd love to meet you!
Location: 1001 Highlands Boulevard, Lakeway (Austin), TX 78738
We are actively interviewing and look forward to finding the right person to join our team!
Compensation: $18.00 - $20.00 per hour
Our Philosophy
At Lupine Lane, we provide children with relevant, safe, natural, real world experiences in a developmentally appropriate manner. We believe in building a strong and caring foundation with each child and his or her family by taking a true interest in the intricacies and unique qualities of the individual child, providing a welcoming, comfortable environment and maintaining frequent and pertinent communication with each child and the people involved in the child’s life.
Furthermore, we believe that children are capable of extraordinary accomplishments, especially when they have a safe, loving environment, developmentally appropriate lessons, activities and materials, as well as guidance, support and encouragement. We provide children with lessons, activities and materials that foster a natural sense of curiosity, as well as cognitive, social/emotional, creative and physical development.
We believe that the process is equally important to the product. This equality is due to the fact that the product is a manifestation of the process, allowing for a deeper, clearer understanding of the process that occurred to achieve the end result. It is not the quality of the product that is of great importance, but rather its existence, which provides a sense of completion and reaching a goal, builds self-confidence and provides opportunity to reflect.
We believe that progressive projects provide an abundance of opportunities for goal setting, self-regulation, building attention span and work ethic, reflection of the learning and creative processes and provide a wonderful, rewarding sense of accomplishment.
We also feel that documenting the child’s day and processes are important, in order for the child and those in the child’s life to have a visual and written record of how the child learns. During early childhood, it is wonderful for parents, teachers and caretakers to understand and encourage the child’s learning style in order to best tailor a pathway for the child’s education. Visual and written records also help the child to recall processes and experiences from which they learned.
Moreover, we believe that experiences inside and outside of the classroom are equally important. We strive to provide children with knowledge, skills and confidence within the classroom as well as ample time outdoors, in nature and within the local community. Relevant experiences outside of the classroom enable the lessons, activities and materials within the classroom to come alive and achieve greater meaning and depth in a child’s mind.
At Lupine Lane, we believe children are first and foremost people with an insatiable curiosity of the world. The more fully their sense of wonder, thoughts and dreams are developed, the greater knowledge, skills and confidence they will have progress to larger concepts. Through guiding the whole child, cognitively, social/emotionally, creatively and physically, we provide the foundation for each child to grow and flourish brilliantly.
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