Hiba Primary KS1/KS2 Class Teacher 27/28

WHY CHOOSE WELLINGTON? Professional Growth

• Tailored professional development pathways for all staff.
• Comprehensive CPD programs covering teaching methodologies, cultural awareness, and non-academic skills such as public speaking and finance.
• Three specialized leadership programs for middle, senior, and high-potential leaders.
• An internal coaching program designed to help you thrive. Exceptional Benefits
• Highly competitive salary package.
• Comprehensive medical insurance for employees and dependents. Life in Hangzhou
• A modern, forward-thinking city surrounded by natural beauty and rich culture.
• Home to the UNESCO World Heritage Site, West Lake.
• A thriving tech hub, hosting giants like Alibaba, with widespread cashless convenience.
• Just 45 minutes by high-speed train to Shanghai. JOB TITLE KS1/KS2 Class Teacher DEPARTMENT Academic LOCATION Hangzhou LINE MANAGEMENT Deputy Head of Primary OBJECTIVES Wellington College Education (China)
• Hangzhou is seeking an experienced KS1/KS2 Class Teacher who will have high expectations of children and a commitment to ensuring that they can achieve their full educational potential and to establishing fair, respectful, trusting, supportive and constructive relationships with them.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• To have high expectations of all pupils based on relevant data.
• Have high expectations of children and a commitment to ensuring that they can achieve their full educational potential and to establishing fair, respectful, trusting, supportive and constructive relationships with them.
• Demonstrate the values, attributes and behaviour you expect from children.
• Be aware of the professional duties of teachers and the statutory framework within which they work.
• Be aware of the policies and practices of the school and share collective responsibility for their implementation.
• Communicate effectively with children, young people, colleagues, parents and carers.
• Recognise and respect the impact colleagues, parents and carers can make to the development and wellbeing of children and young people and to raising their levels of attainment.
• Have a commitment to collaboration and cooperative working with colleagues.
• Reflect on and improve their practice; take responsibility for identifying and meeting their professional development needs.
• Have a creative and constructively critical approach towards innovation; being prepared to adapt their practice where benefits and improvements are identified.
• Act upon advice and feedback and be open to coaching and mentoring.
• Attend school trips, including weekend and week-long trips in line with school policy and expectations. PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
• Be informed of a range of approaches to assessment, including the importance of formative assessment.
• Follow assessment guidance set out in the whole school assessment policy.
• Know how to use local and national statistical information to evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching, to monitor the progress of those they teach and to raise levels of attainment.
• Understand how children develop and that the progress and wellbeing of learners are affected by a range of developmental, social, religious, ethnic, cultural and linguistic influences.
• Know and understand the roles of colleagues with specific responsibilities, including those with responsibilities for learners with SEN and disabilities and other individual learning needs.
• Know how to identify and support children whose progress, development or wellbeing is affected by changes or difficulties in their personal circumstances, and when to refer them to colleagues for specialist support. PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
• Assess the learning of those you teach and set challenging learning objectives.
• Plan and teach lessons and sequences of lessons that are well organised, demonstrating secure subject knowledge relevant to curricula across the age and ability range for which you are trained.
• Use a range of teaching strategies and resources, including e-learning.
• Provide opportunities for learners to develop their literacy, numeracy and ICT skills.
• Provide homework to sustain learners' progress and consolidate their learning.
• Make effective use of a range of assessment, monitoring and recording strategies.
• Provide daily, accurate and constructive feedback on learners' attainment, progress and areas for development.
• Support and guide learners to reflect on their learning, identify progress they have made and identify their emerging learning needs.
• Establish a purposeful and safe learning environment conducive to learning and identify opportunities for learners to learn in and out of school contexts.
• Establish a clear framework for classroom discipline to manage learners’ behaviour constructively and promote their self-control and independence.
• Work as a team member and identify opportunities for working with colleagues, sharing the development of effective practice with them.
• Ensure colleagues (e.g. teaching assistants) working with you are appropriately involved in supporting learning and understand the roles they are expected to fulfil.
• Advising and co-operating with staff on the preparation and delivery of courses of study, teaching materials and programmes, methods of teaching and assessments and pastoral arrangements.
• Participating in arrangements for further training and professional development, including undertaking personal training and professional development identified through performance management.
• Understanding of best practice within safeguarding and safeguarding children’s Health & Safety in school and on authorised school activities elsewhere. BASIC QUALIFICATION Education
• Bachelor's degree or above and relevant teaching qualifications and certificates. Major
• Primary Education or related education-focused subjects preferable. Working Experience
• A minimum of 2 years' working experience as a primary class teacher. Language
• English speaker. EXPERTISE
• Have a range of teaching, learning and behaviour management strategies and know how to use and adapt them, including how to personalise learning and provide opportunities for all learners to achieve their potential.
• Have a secure knowledge and understanding of curriculum areas to enable you to teach effectively across the age and ability range for which you are trained to teach.
• Know the assessment requirements and arrangements for the subjects/curriculum areas they are trained to teach.
• Know how to make effective personalised provision for the children you teach including those for who English is an additional language. PREFERRED APTITUDES
• Excellent communication skills.
• Open, proactive, patient and caring.
• Adaptable and flexible.
• Committed to continued professional development.