A genuinely prepared environment
Full material sets per classroom — not one Pink Tower shared between rooms while children queue. Defined age bands, low ratios, and an environment you arrange the way your observations tell you to.
Careers · Mont Ivy Preschools · Whitefield, Bangalore
Parents write your name in their reviews.
At most preschools, parents thank “the school.” Read ours and you’ll find teachers named, one by one, by families who noticed exactly who did the work. That doesn’t happen because of marketing — we don’t advertise on ranking sites at all. It happens because our directresses are given a prepared environment, real support staff, and the freedom to follow the child.
Before you spend time on an application
Let’s save each other a fortnight.
Most preschool job posts describe a place that doesn’t exist. Here is the honest version, so you can rule us out in ninety seconds if we’re wrong for you.
You’ll do well here if
- You’re Montessori certified, and you hold the method seriously enough to defend it.
- You believe the Montessori work cycle is sacred, and it bothers you when it’s broken.
- You’d rather be observed and corrected than left alone and quietly judged.
- You want to say “I think we’re getting this wrong” to a co-founder, on the floor, and have it taken seriously.
- You want to be a superb directress in the next few years — not a coordinator in three.
You’ll be unhappy here if
- Pay is your first filter. We won’t pretend otherwise: we set out to maximise the experience of the work, not the salary. Our teachers stay because of what the days are like, the high standing the school has in the community, and the people they work beside. If the number is what you’re optimising for, there are schools that will beat us on it.
- You want a day that is fully scripted for you. Ours isn’t. You observe, you plan, you decide (this is how a Montessori adult learns and grows, while we provide the necessary support).
- You prefer to teach the class rather than the child, and you like worksheets going to the students' home as proof of work.
- You need a large institution with a title for every rung. We have two designations in total.
What we can put in writing
Every school promises a “good environment.”
The room
The room
The people
The people
The people
Your time
Your time
Your practice
Your practice
Every school promises a “good environment.”
Here’s the machinery behind ours.
A promise is a feeling. An arrangement is a fact. These are the specific arrangements that make the feeling possible — and you’re welcome to hold us to every one of them in your interview.
Pure Montessori, not Montessori-flavoured
No textbooks. No syllabus borrowed from a formal school. No weeks of annual-day rehearsal eating the work cycle. Follow the child is the operating instruction here, not the tagline.
It is also why we take certified directresses only — for the core programme, there is no version of this that works with untrained hands.
Two designations. That’s the whole structure.
Montessori Directress and Senior Montessori Directress. Nothing else. There is no middle tier whose job is to manage upward, because there is no middle tier.
Aparna, our co-founder, is on the floor — not behind a door you need an appointment to open. Parents write about this in their reviews; you’ll see it on your first morning.
Teachers interview the teachers
Every candidate for a classroom role is interviewed by the directresses who would work alongside them, and their assessment is not advisory. If the team says no, the answer is no.
We know of no other school that does this. It’s also why the promise of a politics-free staff room is safe to make — a school where teachers choose their own colleagues has given away the instrument politics runs on.
You are a directress, and we respect it
Assistants, housekeeping, front office, care and transport staff are employed as their own roles. You are not clearing up after snack, chasing a fee reminder, or standing in at the gate.
No admissions work. No marketing. No school tours. Not one hour of your week goes to filling seats.
Preparation happens inside working hours
A protected planning block sits in your timetable. Album work, material preparation and record-keeping are budgeted for in the day — not smuggled into your evening.
Parent communication runs through school channels in school hours. Your personal phone is yours after you leave.
Progress reports live online, so the work can travel
Observations and progress records go into a system you can reach from anywhere. If your child is unwell or you’re away visiting family, the reporting doesn’t pin you to a desk in Whitefield.
Training we pay for, in school time
External workshops, refresher modules and diploma courses are co-funded by the school.
The company you’ll keep
Core Montessori roles go to certified directresses only. Specialist work — music, performing arts, sport, art and craft, languages — goes to practitioners with real credentials in their own field.
The pleasant consequence: some days you will be the least experienced person in the room. That is where the learning is.
Standing
Nobody here has ever been called a resource.
A mother writing about her twins remarked: “the coaches — yes, the teachers are indeed coaches for the kids.”
That is a sentence a parent writes about a school only when she feels the real heartfelt contribution from the teachers.
Money is not the only currency a career pays in. Where you work, how you are spoken to, whose company you keep, and whether anyone outside the building knows your name — these compound over a lifetime in a way a salary revision does not. We have been deliberate about all four.
- You are named, publicly, on this website. Our directresses have their own profiles — background, training, and their own advice to parents. Most schools list a principal and a phone number. See the teachers’ page.
- A reputation built entirely on word of mouth. We have never paid for a listing or a ranking. Close to a hundred five star genuine reviews, the earliest from more than a decade ago. Parents find us because other parents send them.
- Families visit ten schools and choose this one. Reviewers say so in their own words. When you tell someone in this city where you teach, that carries — and it will still carry at your next school, and the one after.
- Language matters, so we watch ours. No headcount, no manpower, no resourcing. You are a directress. The children call you by your name and so do we.
- Founders who are in the room. The founders are available and approachable. Aparna is on the floor with the children and the staff.
Open roles
Where we need team members
We have two teaching designations, and we mean to keep it that way.
Montessori Directress
OpenYour own prepared environment, with an assistant. You observe, plan, keep records and hold the parent relationships for your children.
- Essential
- Montessori certification — AMI, IMTC, MACTE-recognised or equivalent. Having less than 4 years of relevant experience
- Age group
- Toddler 1.3–2.5y / Pre-primary 2.5–6+y
- Hours
- 8:45AM – 3:00PM, Monday to Friday
Senior Montessori Directress
OpenThe same work, held to a deeper standard — and the person newer directresses learn from by watching. Not an administrative role, and it never becomes one.
- Essential
- Montessori certification — AMI, IMTC, MACTE-recognised or equivalent. Having over 4 years of relevant experience
- Age group
- Toddler 1.3–2.5y / Pre-primary 2.5–6+y
- Hours
- 8:45AM – 3:00PM, Monday to Friday
Specialist faculty/agency — music, movement, art, sport, languages
OpenSession-based, for practitioners with standing in their own field who want a few hours a week with children who are genuinely allowed to concentrate. Montessori certification isn’t expected here; credentials in your own discipline are.
- Engagement
- Per session / retainer
- Commitment
- 1-5 sessions per week
Support & operations — front office, care staff, transport
RollingThe reason our directresses can teach. Parents thank these colleagues by name in their reviews, which tells you how the school regards them.
- Hours
- Part-time/Full-time
Honorary partners. If you’re an individual or organisation with a philanthropic outlook, you can work with our regular students and with Mont Ivy Social Impact. Apply through the same form and tell us what you’d like to bring.
What comes with the role
The things that decide whether a job is liveable
- Your own child, at Mont Ivy. A fee concession and complimentary day-care for staff children. If you’re returning to work after a break, this usually settles the entire question — the childcare need and the job are solved in one decision.
- Holidays that are actually holidays. Your leave calendar is the school calendar, published a year ahead. Nobody is asked to come in early to decorate.
- Training, funded and timetabled. Workshops and refresher modules co-paid for by the school, attended in school time.
- A voice in who joins. You will sit on the interview panel for every teaching colleague hired after you.
- A referral reward. If you introduce someone we hire, we recognise it. Good directresses know good directresses, and it is our best hiring channel by a distance.
Things we will never ask you to do
Each item here is ordinary practice somewhere in this city, and each one is a reason a good teacher eventually leaves a school she otherwise liked. Ask us about any of them in the interview.
- Any admissions or marketing work. Not a school tour, not a follow-up call, not a stall at a mall.
- Come in on a holiday for a celebration. That day belongs to your own family.
- Rehearse for an annual day, grandparents’ day, or any event staged for the camera.
- Chase a parent for an unpaid fee.
- Answer parent messages on your personal number.
- Take unwanted administrative roles.
- Produce worksheets so that something goes home in the bag everyday.
- Any non-teaching duty at all, in fact. You were hired for one job.
We don’t have an Annual Day. Every morning is special, and we protect every one of them.
The hiring process
Four steps. About two weeks. You’ll hear back either way.
Teachers tell us the worst part of job-hunting is the silence. So here is the whole process in advance, including the timings we hold ourselves to.
You apply
Fill out a short Google Form (link below) and upload your latest resume there.
A few minutesWe call
We will reach out to you and have preliminary discussion.
Within 3 working daysYou visit the school
We schedule a visit to the school for the meetings. You get to know us and vice versa.
At your convenienceOffer, in writing
Role, terms, hours and expectations, all on paper.
Within 5 working days of the visit
Straight answers
The questions people ask on the call
I’m not Montessori-certified. Can I apply?
Not for a classroom role. We take certified directresses only, and we don’t make exceptions — it is the promise the school makes to every parent, and the reason the method actually works here. Specialist faculty in music, art, sport and languages are a different matter: there we look for credentials in your own discipline. If you’re currently in training, write to us when you finish; we’d be glad to hear from you then.
What does the school pay?
What we’ll say here is that we have set out to maximise the experience of working at Mont Ivy rather than maximizing the salary line — the days, the standing, the colleagues, the fact that you go home at the end of the school day. Teachers who stay with us for years stay for those reasons, while they get compensated fairly over time. But if pay is your first criterion, we’d rather you found that out now than in month four.
I’ve been out of work for a few years. Is that a problem?
No — provided your certification is in hand. A number of the finest directresses we’ve met came back to work after raising their own children. If your child is between 15 months and seven years, the staff concession and free day-care usually make the arithmetic work.
What if I don’t want to run anything? I just want to teach well and go home.
Then you have understood the job correctly, and you are the person this page is written for. There is no point at which we decide you have been a directress long enough. We have exactly two designations and neither of them is administrative.
How much does the commute matter?
Less than you’d think. We’re at Villa 10, Prestige Sunflower, ECC Road, Whitefield — and several of our directresses travel a fair distance to get here, happily, for years. What makes that sustainable is that the day ends when the school day ends and nothing follows you home.
What does a politics-free staff room actually mean?
It means two designations and no tier in between whose job is to manage upward. It means a co-founder on the floor rather than behind a door. And most of all, it means the teachers here interview and approve every new colleague — a school that hands its staff a veto over hiring has given away the instrument politics runs on. Test the claim directly: ask to speak to a current directress alone, and we’ll arrange it.
There’s no role open that fits me. Can I still write in?
Yes, and you should. We hire ahead of need when we meet the right person.
Apply
A short form. Then we call you.
Just upload your latest resume in the short form.
Know someone better suited than you? Send them this page. If we hire them, we’ll make it worth your while — and you don’t have to work here to claim it.
Prefer to talk first? Call +91 888 000 9552 / +91 888 000 9442 or write to [email protected].
Application form
The form asks for:
- Your name, phone number and email id
- The role you’re applying for
- Your SM profile links, if any
- Your latest resume
- Any particular message for us
We try and reply to every application, including the ones we can’t take forward.