Lower Primary Teacher

Huili School Hangzhou offers a world-class bilingual education for children aged from 2 to 18, which begins in Huili Nursery Hangzhou with the Early Years Foundation Stage supported by the Early Years statements taken from the Zhejiang Curriculum. In Primary School and Junior High we follow the Chinese National Curriculum (with reference to Zhejiang Province guidelines), which is complimented with a wide-range of international teaching resources and materials. Pupils then study the IGCSE and either A-Levels or the IB Diploma Programme in our Senior High. Huili School Hangzhou uses the unique Wellington approach to holistic education coupled with the Huili Values and Identities to ensure our well-rounded pupils will be ready for acceptance into the best universities around the world, leaving Wellington College Hangzhou prepared with the 21st century skills required for the future.

Our campus covers over 74,000 square meters and hosts a range of custom built, state-of- the-art facilities that provide pupils with access to the very best academic and co-curricular opportunities.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Professional Attributes

• 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 behavior 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 careers.

• Recognize and respect that the colleagues, parents and careers 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.

  Professional Knowledge and Understanding

• Have a range of teaching, learning and behavior management strategies and know how to use and adapt them, including how to personalize learning and provide opportunities for all learners to achieve their potential.

• Know the assessment requirements and arrangements for the subjects/curriculum areas they are trained to teach, including those relating to public examinations and qualifications.

• Be informed of a range of approaches to assessment, including the importance of formative assessment.

• To 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.

• 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 and understand the relevant statutory and non-statutory curricula frameworks, including those provided through the National Strategies, for your curriculum areas (all taught areas), and other relevant initiatives across the age and ability range for

  which you are trained to teach.

• Know how to use skills in literacy, numeracy and ICT to support your teaching and

  wider professional activities e.g. planning and assessment.

• Understand how children develop and that the progress and well-being of learners

  are affected by a range of developmental, social, religious, ethnic, cultural and linguistic

  influences.

• Know how to make effective personalized provision for the children you teach

  including those for who English is an additional language.

• 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.

• Be aware of current legal requirements and policy concerning the well being of children.

• Know how to identify and support children whose progress, development or well- being 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 learner’s progress and consolidate their learning.

• Make effective use of a range of assessment, monitoring and recording strategies.

• Provide daily, accurate and constructive feed back on learner’s 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 conductive 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.

• Safeguarding children’s H&S in school and on authorized school activities elsewhere.

• Other responsible duties as directed by the Head of Juniors.

• Bachelor’s degree, teaching certificate
• English Language and literature or related education majors
• Native English speaker
• A minimum of 2 years working experience as primary class teacher
• Knowledge of primary teaching
• Be able to assess pupils’ interests, needs and developments
• Be able to develop curriculum
• Open, proactive, patient and caring
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• International and bilingual school working experience is preferred
• Cross-cultural working experience is preferred