Job description
English Teacher
ACS International Schools are recruiting an English Teacher who can teach AP Language and Composition and can in addition, assist teaching other high school courses at ACS Cobham for a fixed term contract.
This role will work as part of the high school team at ACS Cobham and you will be working within a campus of outstanding facilities in a beautiful countryside setting, inclusive of world-class facilities like our swimming pool, sports centre, and state-of-the-art theatre.
ACS offers a dynamic and stimulating working environment.
Knowledge, skills, and experience required:
- Educated to bachelor’s degree (or international equivalent) minimum – related subjects Teaching qualification
- Experience teaching relevant subject to (HS/MS/LS) students essential
- Strong IT skills
- Experience teaching in an international school preferred (of International Baccalaureate if in High School, AP, MYP, PYP where appropriate), alternatively experience teaching KS5/A levels experience is essential
- Demonstrates consistently high standards of personal and professional conduct
- Fluent in English both verbal and written
Principal Accountabilities
- Demonstrate in depth and accurate knowledge and understanding of the curriculum, subject content and the developmental needs of students by providing relevant learning experiences that set high expectations that enable students’ use of higher level skills as appropriate.
- Plan using the school’s curriculum, effective strategies, resources, and data to meet the needs of all students ensuring that lessons are well planned with differentiating instructions, engaging content, planned learning is delivered and a love of learning is promoted.
- Effectively engage students in learning by using a variety of differentiated instructional strategies to meet individual student learning needs, including help for students needing additional learning support, working with resource teachers, including EAL and learning differences specialists, to support the learning needs of all students.
- Assessment of/for Learning Systematically gather, analyse, and use data to measure student progress and learning, guide instruction, provide timely feedback, inform own teaching and support curriculum development so that both students and the school achieve academic excellence.
- Learning Environment Use resources, routines, and procedures to provide a respectful, positive, safe, and student-centred environment that is conducive to learning.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues to develop teaching and learning resources for students at different levels, including on-line Virtual Learning Environment-based resources and materials, to address the students’ learning needs and the agreed curriculum for shared use in the department.
Start date: January 2023
Duration: 7 months, until July 2023
Working hours: Monday- Friday 0830- 1630
Salary: £35-43,000 per annum depending on experience. This will be on a pro rata basis.
Safeguarding ACS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and as an employee of ACS you are expected to share this commitment. The protection of our students’ welfare is the responsibility of all staff within ACS International Schools and individuals are expected to conduct themselves in a way that reflects the principles of our organisation.
Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Salary: £35,000.00-£43,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Free parking
- Gym membership
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Cobham: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Education:
- Bachelor's (preferred)
Experience:
- Teaching: 2 years (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- QTS (required)
Work Location: One location