PreK4 Teacher

Role

The Village School is looking to fill a PreK4 Teacher position for the 2024-2025 School Year.

Job Description

• You’ll help us develop and teach various subjects in the early childhood curriculum.  
• You’ll deliver lessons and assignments and oversee the emotional and social development of children.
• You’ll identify varying teaching methods that work best for all students.      
• As a genuine team player, you’ll work across the Early Childhood division to ensure students are learning and growing.     
• Everything we do is connected to our vision to create a generation of resilient and creative global citizens who will change our world for the better. Your role will impact the organisation by ensuring students understand concepts and maintain accurate records of students’ progress in class and on examinations.
• Your role will impact the organisation by ensuring students understand concepts and maintain accurate records of students’ progress in class and on examinations.

Job Description Continued

• Support positive school culture by engaging with colleagues to think, create, and reflect.
• Create shared understanding around the goals of world languages, and how that fits in with the various grade levels.
• Maintain a learning focused classroom culture based on high expectations, routines, and mutual respect so that all students feel safe to move out of their comfort zone to achieve more.
• Be knowledgeable about what they teach and the children they teach so that they can plan for the challenges students face when learning their subject.
• Provide appropriate scaffolding and support such as guided practice and lots of feedback to ensure all ranges of ability gain confidence and progress to independent proficiency.
• Include opportunities for students to explain, discuss, explore, reflect, and solve problems so that students are highly engaged and encouraged to think critically and creatively.

Job Description Continued

• Be flexible and responsive to student needs by regularly using formative assessment strategies to check for understanding and make adjustments to instruction if necessary.
• Accurately measure and report student attainment using collaboratively developed assessments so that students can reliably demonstrate the extent of their mastery of content and skills.
• Act as a professional teammate, working productively with and respectfully towards their colleagues so that all feel valued, supported, and part of the team.
• Utilize parents as a partner in their child’s education by keeping them regularly informed, particularly when there is a success to celebrate or an issue to address.
• Plan sequences of lessons that introduce knowledge and skills to students in a coherent way so that they deepen understanding, make connections, and master increasingly complex skills.
• Act as a professional teammate, working productively with and respectfully towards their colleagues so that all feel valued, supported, and part of the team
• Utilize parents as a partner in their child’s education by keeping them regularly informed, particularly when there is a success to celebrate or an issue to address.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in education preferred.
• Valid teaching certificate.
• Completion of a student teaching through a degree at a university or teacher training/certification program.
• At least one year of teaching experience preferred
• Training in effective instructional methods
• Experience teaching a lower school World Language curriculum
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Word and PowerPoint for producing reports and presentations.
• Good cross-cultural, interpersonal and communication skills to interact with diverse nationalities and cultures.
• Excellent analytical skills – with the passion and drive to demonstrate and quantify success.
• Results orientated with the ability to consistently map efforts against identified KPIs.
• Excellent time management skills and flexibility in dealing with multi-functional tasks.
• You’d like to work in a purpose-led sector.