Substitute Elementary School Homeroom Teacher
- Elementary
- Licensed Teacher
- Bachelor
- 1 year of teaching experience
- Teaching Credential/License
- The apartments where our foreign hired teachers live are rented directly by the school. The first year of the contract the apartment is chosen by the institution. After this time, the teacher may look for another apartment with recommendations from the school. The school also provides furniture, household effects and assistance with housing repairs.
- Foreign hired staff are covered by a Colombian medical plan. The school also offers an insurance plan with international emergency coverage, which includes: doctor appointments, hospitalization and preventive dental care.
- The school pays travel expenses in coach from the closest international airport to Medellín and a return trip at the end of the original two-year contract.
- At the beginning of the original contract, the equivalent of US$500 will be paid in Colombian Pesos upon arrival in Medellin.
- The school will assume the fee of the working visa and also gives you assistance with the process.
- In order to improve the communication skills in Spanish, the School offers a 50% discount for Spanish lessons for foreign hired staff.
- The Columbus School provides transportation to and from school daily during academic periods along predetermined routes.
- Professional Development: The School will offer the possibility of attending various training and courses with the goal of broadening the knowledge, abilities, behaviors, or aptitudes that may facilitate the execution of their duties.
We are looking for a long term Elementary School Homeroom Teacher substitute, to cover a position until June 2020.
The Columbus School focuses all its education labor towards the formation of leaders that are outstanding due to academic excellence, integrity and responsibility, their critical thinking, open and global minds and of course, their bilingualism.
To achieve this objective our School is based on a bilingual academic program with both national and international standards, where academic formation is equally important as formation in values.
For 14 years, and through three Schools (Elementary, Middle and High School), we provide our students appropriate development experiences with personalized guidance which allows them to discover and channel their academic, ethic and technological potentials and capabilities.
After graduating, our students receive a dual academic degree, earning both the “American High School Degree”, and the Colombian Bilingual Academic Baccalaureate, the latter can emphasize on Pre-Engineering, Pre-Sciences or Humanities.
Values and social responsibility are the cornerstones of our educational program.
All of our students begin a professional academic program, both in Colombian universities and in different and prestigious foreign institutions.