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TopTutorJobcn Hiring for High School Science Teacher(AP biology and chemistry) at Indiaan hour Full Time
Job description
Job Description
School Description: Leighton School is a small, elite college prep high school in Shanghai, China, is partnered
with Perkiomen School, a highly rated college prep high school in Pennsylvania. Leighton School’s goal is to
educate its students with a rigorous college prep curriculum to be successful in attending universities around the
world and to lead happy, healthy, and productive lives beyond university.
The school, located in Sheshan National Tourist Area in Shanghai, is nestled in a valley between Sheshan
Mountain and smaller hills. Atop the nearby mountains stands the largest research observatory in Shanghai and
a monastery, relocated brick-by-brick from Europe. The local environment in which the school is located
provides a unique, New England feel to the school.
Teaching
• Understand and have experience in using backwards design curriculum development and differentiated
instruction;
• Have experience and demonstrated success in teaching a variety of history and/or social science
electives courses
Requirements
Teaching
• Understand and have experience in using backwards design curriculum development and differentiated
instruction.
• Have experience and demonstrated success in teaching world literature and American literature in a
variety of literary genres.
• Demonstrated success as an enthusiastic teacher who uses a student-centered approach to learning and
differentiated teaching strategies to engage all students in active learning
Benefits
• Annual Salary: 340,000RRMB+ after tax (negotiable based on experience, qualifications, and
recommendations)
• 4,000RMB housing allowance
• Teacher health insurance
• Round-trip ticket to home country
Requirements
Education, training and qualifications • Appropriate degree, with PGCE or other teaching qualifications giving QTS, national teaching permits from native English speaking countries, majored in Education preferred • Working knowledge of the National Curriculum of England including KS3, IGCSE/GCSE and A Levels as appropriate • Evidence of relevant and challenging continuing professional development • Native English speaker ONLY Knowledge and experience • Minimum two years’ teaching experience, relevant upper school English teaching experience preferred • Be aware and up to date in all relevant safeguarding polices and practice • Knowledge and experience of how to use of ICT effectively in promoting student learning • Recent and consistent involvement in extracurricular activities • Previous experience or knowledge of working with students for whom English is not their first language Personal qualities • Respect for all members of a school community, irrespective of position, gender, age and ethnic background • Passionate about teaching and a strong commitment to holistic education • The ability to inspire students through a genuine passion for learning and a desire to lead them towards outstanding academic outcomes • A positive and solution-focused attitude to working life • Highly motivated, ambitious and collaborative • Demonstrate empathy, humility and genuinely care about children, taking the time to listen and motivate them Other • A clean enhanced Disclosure and Barring Services check or police check (for applicants who have never worked in UK) and no question regarding suitability to work with children
