Primary Science Teacher (NXCGS)

Performance Responsibilities:

• Provide day-to-day instructional excellence to each student following designated curriculum
• Ensure the classroom is well-organized for purposeful activity throughout the day
• Implement and model high standards of work practice and review, critically reflecting, and evaluating own practice
• Show great individual care and support for the students, promoting learning styles that cater to individual differences to provide engagement in rigorous, relevant, and significant learning
• Establish clear instructional objectives, utilizing core teaching resources and supplementary materials
• Assess and analyse student progress to inform instruction and provide constructive feedback to promote students’ progress towards standards
• Respect, appreciate and understand differences in learning and school culture
• Participate in a culture of professional learning
• Work cooperatively with fellow-staff members and administrators as it pertains to specific grade levels and programs
• Be accountable and a positive advocate for all management decisions
• Attend staff meetings, teacher workdays and professional development activities as assigned or recommended
• Contribute to afterschool activities on a regular basis
• Perform additional duties as assigned by the Principal or Head of Department

The performance responsibilities are designed to outline primary duties, qualifications and job scope, but not limit the employee to only the work identified. It is the expectation of the school that each employee will offer his/her services wherever and whenever necessary to ensure the success of the organization.

About Ningxiang Country Garden School:

Ningxiang Country Garden School is located in Xiangjiang New District, west of Changsha city, nearby Yuelu Mountain and Weishui River. It is about a 40-minutes’ ride to Changsha City and one hour’s ride to Changsha Railway Station and Huanghua Airport. A big shopping mall ‘Times Outlets’ is nearby the school.

The school is a modern school and its main features combine international education, English teaching, character education and personal growth. The school opened in September of 2014 three years after its initial conception and is operated by the Bright Scholar Education Group.

It is a boarding school from kindergarten through to senior high school. The facilities comprise more than 100,000 square meters. It contains modern facilities and a campus with Wifi coverage, climate control and numerous multi-functional buildings including a gymnasium, a theater, laboratories and dormitories.

The school was founded on the principles of Country Garden’s success for the past 20 years and reflects its continuing commitment to education. It benefits from China’s educational traditions while implementing advanced international ideas. The kindergarten carries out the IB-PYP programme to lead children to explore the unknown world, to love their lives and to grow happily. The primary and junior high schools implement national compulsory education and introduce the UOI and AOI activities of IB programmes to help students create a cohesive knowledge system while cultivating their spirits of exploration and comprehensive practical abilities. The senior high school has initiated international courses such as the IGCSE, A-Level and IFY to qualify students for admission to top universities around the globe.

The school insists on the advancement of students’ character as the root of education and strives to develop students’ learning capacity, bilingual ability, personal potential and creativity. It provides a holistic education designed to benefit students’ total human development. The school delivers small class-sized teaching with an average of 25 children in kindergarten, the maximum of 36 students in primary school and junior high school, and the maximum of 25 students in senior high school to enable more individual care for each child.