Do you love the beach and enjoy working with children? We are searching for a passionate educator who will inspire students to explore the wonders of marine biology. If teaching outdoors in the sun and sand sounds like a dream job to you, let's chat!
Tides Program
Tides Carpinteria is a 2.5 hour long Marine Biology experience for children grades 1st-8th. Nature journals in-hand, students study marine creatures, plants, birds, tide pools, ecosystems, and sustainability, all in a hands-on, exploratory learning environment.
Duties & Responsibilities for the Head Teacher
You will be responsible for teaching and managing your class during Tides. This includes, but is not limited to the following:
- Carry out the day’s lesson plan which is pre-created and given to you in advance (welcome, directing an activity/ game, book, lesson, guided beach exploration, executing snack and playtime, facilitating art).
- Continually checking for understanding.
- Being creative on-the-spot to make the most of learning moments for students to learn, understand, have fun, and appreciate the ocean, animals, plants, and one another.
- Using passion and joy to facilitate exploration and curiosity.
- Using assertive and kind communication and discipline to manage the class smoothly and effectively.
- Ensuring that each student is signed out by an adult on their pick-up form.
Core values
You will be responsible for embodying our core values:
Initiative Taking. We generate ideas, share them, and implement them so that our programs can be continuously improved each day at each location.
Nurturing Influence. We go beyond the lessons and we use emotional intelligence to nurture our students to be their best selves.
Ultimate Responsibility. We are personally committed to the long-term success of our programs/company and embody this to our parents.
Joyful Flexibility. We embrace change, weather, ambiguity, and conflict with joyful hearts and with steady hands.
Outdoorsy Grit. We love nature in all of its countless elements and we inspire others with this love.
Passionate Lifelong Learner. We have our own interesting worlds of intrigue, hobby and expertise which we use to inspire others.
Other Skills & Competencies
- Be kind and assertive, a leader and self-starter.
- Help create fun, wonder, and joy in students.
- Be motivated, organized, and creative.
- Communicate clearly to students, other teachers, and parents during drop-off and pick-up.
- Enjoy being with children; play “on their level.”
- Able to store, carry, and transport Tides teaching materials and equipment, as need be.
- Able to lift and carry up to 50 lbs.
- Able to walk long distances if need be.
- Enjoy being out in the open in nature.
- Able to work in the heat/sun.
- Physically and mentally able to respond quickly in the event of an emergency.
- Execute strong classroom management skills.
- Be a team player who can work well with others.
- Demonstrate enthusiasm, professionalism, energy, fun, kindness.
- Engage in honest, good, and quick communication with the management team.
Days & Times
Classes will be Fridays 2:00-4:30 ; Head Teacher is expected to arrive 30 minutes prior and stay about 30 minutes after to close the farm down. *** The end-time can be flexible to allow one teacher to leave early if needed.
Fall semester 2026 will include 15 weeks: Aug 24- Dec19
Spring semester 2027 will include 18 weeks: Jan 4- May 29
Compensation: $25/hour Head Teacher rate
Pay: $25.00 per hour
Work Location: In person
