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FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHER (part-time)

Orchard Valley seeks a creative and enthusiastic foreign language teacher - preferably French - for elementary grades 1-6 at our East Montpelier campus for the 2022-2023 school year.

Qualifications include:

Native or near-native speaker of the language that they will teach

Foreign language teaching experience

Waldorf training or experience is a plus

Excited to work with the growing child and engage with students

Strong classroom management skills

Bringing inspired language (and Waldorf) teaching in a dynamic way

Working collaboratively with parents and colleagues

A deep passion and interest for the world around them


This is a part-time position.

Benefits include: health insurance; professional development; tuition remission; a collaborative working environment and administrative team; a beautiful rural farm setting; a community-minded and supportive family atmosphere

Orchard Valley is a small, rural school set on a beautiful 55-acre campus that encompasses meadows, forests, orchards and gardens, and is abutted by the Kingsbury Branch of the Winooski River. We offer a full Waldorf curriculum with specialty classes in Foreign Language, Handwork, Music/Strings, Woodworking, Movement and an On the Land outdoor education program. We also have chickens, goats, and sheep, which our students help care for as part of our rich Waldorf curriculum. Our programs include combined elementary grades classes and our campus is also home to an early childhood program.

We are located eight miles from Montpelier, Vermont’s capital. It's a small town with big-city amenities - a lively arts and music scene, great restaurants and an active community life.

Interested candidates are asked to submit a resume, a general letter of interest and three references to lynn.r@ovws.org. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.