Steps to Strides Early Learning Centre · Auckland
Teacher, small mixed-age centre
Early learningFull time, PermanentBeginning teachers welcome
Steps to Strides Early Learning Centre in Auckland is seeking a full-time, permanent teacher for its small mixed-age early learning/kōhanga reo centre. The role suits beginning teachers and involves following children’s ideas, encouraging leadership and supporting respectful boundaries; the centre reports 1:4 ratios and offers extended pay parity. It cannot support Accredited Employer Work Visa applications.
- Small mixed-age centre
- One teacher to four children
- Extended pay parity offered
- Beginning teachers welcome
Closes in 17 days
Applications close 16 Oct 2026, 3pm.
Read the full listing and applyOpens the Education Gazette, where the school takes applications.
About the role
Full-time, permanent teaching role in a small mixed-age early learning centre. The teacher will follow children's interests, use conversations and materials to extend learning, provide leadership opportunities, and maintain respectful boundaries. Extended pay parity is offered, and beginning teachers may apply.
What they’re looking for
- Responds to children's ideas and interests
- Uses resources to extend curiosity and thinking
- Creates leadership opportunities for children
- Builds learning partnerships with children
- Maintains clear, respectful boundaries
- Contributes positively to the centre
About the school
Steps to Strides Early Learning Centre is in Auckland and works across early learning and kōhanga reo. It maintains a 1:4 teacher-to-child ratio and values respect for people, places and things.
How to apply
Apply by 16 October 2026; the centre cannot support applications requiring an Accredited Employer Work Visa.
Written by Teachroles from the school’s listing. AI can make mistakes; check the original before you apply.
The role
- Sector
- Early learning
- Role
- Certificated teacher
- Hours
- full time
- Tenure
- permanent
- Listed
- 24 Sept 2026
In the school’s words
“We are readvertising as we continue looking for a teacher who is keen and willing to contribute and is responsive to the children's ideas and uses conversations, resources and materials to provoke wonder, curiosity and cognitive engagement with the children.…”