English Liberal Arts Teacher | PKU School

PKU School seeks an individual who can facilitate meaningful learning experiences for high school students with English as their second language. The ideal candidate will provide an engaging, English environment for students to learn across several classes of content. These classes will prepare students to think critically, develop their language comprehension/composition, improve in communication skills and to study in English programs of universities abroad.

Schedule

40 hours a week (Monday to Friday) and some evenings, weekends or holidays may be required for special events or trips.

Key Responsibilities

Course construction:

• 12 hours instructional time, minimum 8 office hours for student meetings per week, and remaining hours are spent towards professional learning community meetings, planning and marking;
• Create engaging class experiences using flipped classrooms, discussion-based learning and project-based learning;
• Evaluate learning and track student growth, assisting with individual learning plans.

Collaboration support:

• Collaborate on unit and project planning;
• Contribute to the growth of the academy;
• Supervision of students on a year-long Individual Research Project (IRP);
• Chaperone week-long experiential learning trips for Experiential Learning Program (ELP);
• Collaborate with colleagues to develop dynamic, student-centered experiences that focus on skill development;
• Collaborate with colleagues, parents, and faculty to personalize, support, and differentiate for individual students;
• Periodic but infrequent evening or weekend student activity supervision maybe required;
• Other jobs assigned by Dalton Academy.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or higher in education, language, literature or relevant field

• Minimum 2 years teaching experience, preferred in language and literature

• Interest in teaching and developing core and elective curricula

• Experience teaching ESL learners is a plus