Head Teacher in Hangzhou

This individual will also be expected to foster a professional, collaborative culture of personal and departmental responsibility and ongoing improvement and growth.

Requirements

Management (50%)

• Uphold the highest standards of professional behaviour, attitude and appearance as per the Athena Employee Handbook.
  
• Pro-actively oversee and implement Athena curricula, screener and placement processes.
  
• Pro-actively oversee and implement Athena standards for student monitoring, assessment, feedback and reporting.
  
• Pro-actively oversee teachers’ academic administration documents (i.e. lesson plans and course files).
  
• Share teaching resources with colleagues at other Athena centers.
  
• Organise teacher training workshops that respond to both individual teacher, centre and company needs. 
  
• Implement Athena standards for teacher appraisal, including scheduled lesson evaluations, check-in sessions and setting of individual objectives.
  
• Maintain updated and accurate records of individual teacher training, observations and evaluations.
  
• Mentor and coach individual teacher to help them achieve their development goals.
  
• Support ongoing curriculum development of courses by retaining and sharing teaching resources and occasionally developing new resources under direction of Academic Management.
  
• Organise and co-lead focused and action-oriented weekly meetings with center staff and teachers.
  
• Complete all academic reporting as assigned by Academic Management.
  
• Conduct interviews of new teachers for center, reporting feedback to HR.
  
• Support the Centre Manager with business development. Help with sales, referral and marketing events.
  

Teaching (50%)

• Set high expectations that inspire, motivate and challenge students.
  
• Plan and teach outstanding and engaging lessons that meet course syllabus goals and objectives while applying Athena teaching approaches.
  
• Effectively deploy a range of strategies to manage and develop the classroom environment to create a welcoming, open, effective and positive learning environment.
  
• Differentiate class instruction, activities and resources in order to maximise learning opportunities for all learners.
  
• Apply appropriate forms of assessment to monitor student progress.
  
• Provide timely and effective student feedback.
  
• Update, maintain and submit a record of attendance, assessment and lesson planning using Athena course files.
  
• Write student reports and participate in teacher-parent meetings as per Athena Guidelines.
  
• Conduct student screeners and placement as per Athena guidelines.
  

Minimum Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in either Arts or Sciences. Preference currently given to candidates with an English, Education or Science major. 
  
• A teaching qualification such as CELTA, TESOL, ideally at postgraduate level.
  
• Minimum of five years of relevant teaching experience of reading, writing and/or general English courses. Conversation classes would not count towards this experience.
  

Essential Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Excellent understanding of good classroom practice and key principles of child learning.
  
• Experience of developing own lesson plans and resources while working towards set goals and objectives.
  
• Experience of effectively managing a team.
  
• Ability to effectively collaborate with others to achieve desired outcomes. 
  
• Strong organizational skills and time management skills; ability to be flexible and solve problems.
  
• Experience in managing multiple tasks and the ability to deal positively with obstacles to progress.
  
• Excellent ability to communicate through verbal and written means with individuals and small groups at all levels of the organization. 
  

Desired Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Holds a postgraduate qualification in an education-related discipline, with post-qualification experience. 
  
• Experience of managing and collaborating across departments and/or locations.
  
• Experience and competence with digital technology in the classroom.
  
• Prior experience with curriculum development.
  
• Prior experience with teaching programming, electronics, and technology.
  
• Prior experience in international departments and/or international school settings.
  
• Prior experience at English training centers.
  
• Prior experience with IB PYP, Inquiry-based learning, Project-based learning.
  

Benefits

• Basic Salary: 20k-23k/month
  
• 10 days paid annual leave 
  
• House stipend range: 2k-4K
  
• Flight ticket reimbursement 6K
  
• Annual bonus provided （up to 1 month salary）
  
• Medical insurance & Medical check provided 
  
• Work Visa Assistance