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High School Director of Academics

Shanghai Vanke Bilingual School

Shanghai, China

US 2800 - 5000 a month

Housing allowance provided on a monthly basis

Annual airfare reimbursement

Ongoing

Job
School

Contract Length: 2 years

Number of Vacancies: 1

Student Level:

High School

Eligible Candidates:

Director/Principal, Licensed Teacher

School Requirements:

Education Required: Bachelor
Minimum Teaching Experience: 3 years of teaching experience
Required Certificates:
Teaching Credential/License
Work Visa Eligibility: United States (USA), United Kingdom (UK), Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand

Job Benefits:

Competitive salary package
Housing allowance
Health insurance
Work visa related assistance
Annual airfare reimbursement
Free tuition for 1 dependent within Vanke Kindergarten, Primary, Secondary and High Schools
Qualifications & Requirements

DTD Education Group benefits

Education business of Fortune Global 500 – Vanke Group, 15 international and bilingual campuses linkage
Resourceful platforms offering multicultural and open-minded environment, competitive salary and benefits
International senior education experts exchange, with comprehensive leadership/professional/cultural quality-oriented training programs, customized teaching and research support
DTD title certification system, double promotion channels of academics and management

Job Description:

The Director of Academics is responsible for overseeing, coaching and supporting classroom teachers to ensure that all High School students reach their highest academic potential. The Director of Academics will work with principals, teachers, parents, and students to promote student learning.

Reporting to Executive Principal, the Director of Academics will:

Work closely with the principals to establish a strong achievement centered culture;
Coach all teachers to excellence using data to inform decisions;
Ensure the functionality of systems that support student achievement and design targeted individual and group professional development for teachers.

Evaluated by: Executive Principal

Responsibilities:

The Director of Academics is responsible for working with the principals to evaluate, enhance, and expand academic offerings with the following primary responsibilities:

To observe, supervise, and help the faculty in the development and implementation of curriculum
To contribute a program to challenge gifted students to achieve to their highest potential
To build a culture of sharing of effective practices among instructional staff by facilitating cross-class observations, co-planning sessions, and ad-hoc meetings as necessary
To lead the school’s standards-based instructional and assessment strategies to build and support a data-driven culture where assessments are used to increase achievement and student learning
To provide individual and school-wide instructional coaching that is data-driven while ensuring that the curriculum is aligned with the relevant standards and assessments
To coordinate in-house, and external assessments
To provide data to parents and other internal and external stakeholders related to academic evaluation and assessment, testing, academic procedures, and academic offerings
To create and monitor a comprehensive professional development plan for all teachers that includes orientation and mentoring of new teachers
To serve as a consultant to teachers in matters of classroom management, teaching methods, and general school procedures; to work with teachers on areas of weakness as well as best practices
To assist with the textbook review and purchasing process
To make recommendations to the principals regarding the hiring, retention and assignment of faculty
To contribute to the guidance function of the school, including scheduling of students, academic advising and college counseling

Please including the following documents to your Teach Away profile:

Reference letter
Updated detailed resume
Degree certification
Passport copy

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About the School:

About Vanke Bilingual School

Shanghai Vanke Bilingual School grew out of the International Bilingual Program of Fudan Vanke Experimental Private School. At present, there are students from 20 countries and regions, including the United States, Canada, Britain, Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and Mainland China.

Founded in 2006, International Bilingual Program . We aims to merge the Chinese education essence with Western education essence. We cultivate students the international perspective and international communication ability in hand while rooting in Chinese culture. The Chinese teaching and English teaching respectively accounts for 50%.

Small class size with 20 students contributes to an intimate and harmonious teacher-student relationship. Every child is respected as an individual learner. They are fully cared and encouraged by the adult staff at school.

Through practice and exploration, students are equipped with not only good learning habits, but also diversified thinking ability. The Chinese-English language ability of the grade-6 students has reached the level of twin mother-tongues. In Chinese language ability examination, the students are among the best of Minhang district. The English proficiency assessment of the students is based on the American ITBS. According to the historical test performance, students of every grade are better than American students of the same age in English proficiency. The test scores of Grade 9 students exceed the average scores of the American Grade 10 students.

The mission of Shanghai Vanke Bilingual School is to Inspire Unlimited Potential (I UP). Through the rich and challenging bilingual, multicultural and integrated curriculum, we are devoted to cultivating students’well-balanced personality, lifelong learning ability and innovative leadership, thus laying a solid foundation for a sound and fruitful life for all our students.

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