Primary School Teacher
Professional qualities and experience:
We seek a fully certified Primary School Teacher to join our rapidly expanding international school in Baku, Azerbaijan.
- applicants who wish to make a longer-term commitment.
This is an opportunity to join a great team and make a genuine difference, educating the upcoming elite of a young country with a promising future. The post is suited to a capable and self-motivated professional who enjoys working in a cross-cultural environment.
The successful applicant will be a highly capable, modern practitioner with a particular passion for teaching Primary English.
The key duties can be summarised as follows:
- Fulfilling a full-time teaching timetable: the successful applicant will teach Primary English, and some other primary subjects, to children of a range of abilities across the Primary Grade 2 Year Group (UK Year 3 equivalent).
- Modelling teaching and team teaching: the successful applicant will be passionate about supporting their colleagues’ professional development by offering themselves as a model for peer observation.
- Supporting school events, the extra-curricular program, and other initiatives: the successful applicant should be a team player willing to assist with various school projects and initiatives.
The position will suit a committed, enthusiastic teaching professional possessing the correct blend of moral purpose, teaching, and interpersonal and intercultural communication skills.
About MTK
MTK school is located in Baku, Azerbaijan, and moved to a state-of-the-art campus in the heart of the country’s capital in August 2018. A prestigious local private school educating the children of the country’s business elite, MTK is part way through a transition to becoming a bilingual, international-style school that offers a blended English and Azerbaijani instruction curriculum.
The school is comprised of a bilingual Preschool for ages 2-6, a bilingual Primary School for ages 6-11 (Grades 1-5), and a three-stream Secondary school for ages 10-18 (Grades 6-12), which incorporates an international stream (offering Cambridge IGCSE and AS/A-Levels) and two local curriculum streams where the language of instruction is Azerbaijani and Russian respectively. The pupil roll is around 750 in total.
The Primary School
The Primary School is situated in a state-of-the-art building with plenty of natural light, interactive whiteboards in every class, spacious corridors, a fully stocked library, and specialist teaching spaces for ICT, Art, and Music.
The Primary curriculum is delivered primarily in two languages, determined by the student’s choice of educational stream. Students learning in Stream A receive a spine of English-instruction international subjects (English, Mathematics, Science, STEAM, Topic Work, Art, PE, etc.) delivered in English, complimented by aspects of the host-country curriculum delivered in the Azerbaijani language. Stream B classes receive the same but with their host-country curriculum content delivered in the Russian language.
The transformation of the Primary School began in earnest in August 2018 and a great deal of positive progress has been made in terms of staff development, improved planning and assessment of teaching, improved resourcing, creating enabling learning environments, and adapting the parent body to more child-centered expectations.
The successful applicant will work in close cooperation with a predominantly local staff team and three other fully-certified expatriate Primary teachers.
MTK employs an expatriate staff of eleven fully certified teachers across the Preschool, Primary School, and Secondary Schools who are nationals of different countries.
How to apply:
Include:
- a concise covering email, stating the role for which you are applying and core reasons why you are suited to the role
- a well-presented curriculum vitae, including full name, recent photograph, clear details of relevant qualifications, an accurate, clear chronology of teaching experience (with all gaps in employment since your initial teacher training accounted for), and, finally, a personal statement/statement of teaching philosophy.
MTK closely follows safer recruitment practices and all applicants are subject to rigorous reference and background/police checks.
Contract start date : Friday, 10th November; relocation to before that date, between 4th and 8th November is advisable
Applications for this position will be received directly by the school and will not be reviewed by Teach Away's Placement Coordinators.
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Location | Baku, Azerbaijan, Europe |
Start Date | November 2023 |
Eligible Candidates | Licensed Teacher |
Student Level | Elementary |
Monthly Salary | USD 3200 - 3700 |
Number of Vacancies | 1 |
Job Benefits
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Qualifications and Requirements
Required Certificates | Teaching Credential/License |
Education Required | Bachelor |
Major | Primary / Elementary Education |
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