Grades 4-8 Humanities Teacher
Humanities 4-8 Overview
- Teach two multi-age Humanities classes: Grade 4/5 and Middle School (Grades 6-8). Each class has 4-10 students.
- Humanities resources: Collaborative Literacy Curriculum (follows a workshop model, including Book Clubs); SIPPs curriculum; TCI Social Studies and school-developed social studies units
Teaching practice
- Provide deep, integrated learning opportunities that support the development of character, competencies, and conceptual knowledge
- Incorporate active learning where students are engaged directly in analyzing problems, designing solutions, and testing ideas
- Implement evidence-based best practices
- Use positive approaches to student behavior management, effectively approaching student misbehaviors as learning opportunities
- Ability to teach multi-age groupings using a standards-based curriculum
Schoolwide practice
- Ensure approach reflects and supports multiple forms of diversity
- Support schoolwide collaboration through formal and informal engagement with others, sharing ideas and strategies, and participating in school development efforts
- Participate in curriculum development and adoption teams, using the Common Ground Collaborative framework, when appropriate
- Plan and teach After School Activities, and lead or be involved in school events
Professional practice
- Take ownership for own professional development: set goals, take action and grow as an educator with the goal of improved student outcomes
- Engage in professional reflection based on data, in order to think about, receive input on, and make changes to own practice
- Proactively involve parents in their child’s education, including weekly communications focusing both on the class curriculum and individual progress in conceptual understanding, skills acquisition, and character development
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Location | Shantou, China |
Start Date | August 2021 |
Eligible Candidates | Licensed Teacher |
Student Level | Elementary, Middle School |
Monthly Salary | USD 2900 - 4000 |
Number of Vacancies | 1 |
Job Benefits
Faculty can decide the repatriation rate of salaries at the beginning of the school year and can change the decision twice more during the year. The portion of salaries to be deposited in local amount will be paid in Chinese RMB to the US equivalent with the exchange rate set on August 1st of each school year. Benefits:
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Qualifications and Requirements
Required Certificates | Teaching Credential/License |
Education Required | Bachelor |
Major | Education or related field |
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Preferred Qualifications
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