Primary Lead Teacher, Chinese

WHY TEACH AT AVENUES?

Avenues | The World School prepares students for engaged global citizenship during a time of unprecedented complexity and accelerating change, combining language immersion, interdisciplinary learning, a global curriculum, and a culture of creativity and deep collaboration.

In 2018, we launched our Shenzhen campus, bringing our popular early childhood program from New York to China’s southern hub of innovation. Today, we are thrilled to have expanded our campus to serve students from two to 18 years of age.

PRIMARY DIVISION

Our Primary Division provides a transformative academic program to engage young minds and promote creative thinking--in two languages. During grades 1-5, students cultivate independent thinking and deepen their understanding of what it means to be a member of a community, through a curricular emphasis on: language immersion in Mandarin and English; inquiry-oriented learning, from the self to the world; and interdisciplinary, creativity-enhancing projects. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO​

• Design innovative curriculum that engages all learners in meaningful and challenging work that cultivates real-world problem solving skills and develops social responsibility in Chinese 
  
• Collaborate intensively and daily with colleagues to design learning outcomes, monitor growth, and thoughtfully address individual student needs
  
• Deeply connect with students, colleagues and parents to uphold a culture of welcome, safety and respect
  
• Invoke a robust learning atmosphere that leads students to value being at school and feel part of a rigorous and joyful learning community
  
• Inspire trust and confidence among parents and families
  
• Participate actively in ongoing, intensive professional learning
  
• Actively utilize practices that promote diversity,  equity,  and inclusion in the classroom and amongst colleagues
  

Requirements

• At least 3 years of teaching experience in grades 1-5 with a proven track record of student learning
  
• Profound commitment to ensuring and nurturing children's wellbeing
  
• Highly effective collaborator, eager to listen deeply, contribute to a team and achieve goals together
  
• Dedication to learning, reflecting and developing the craft of teaching 
  
• Very resourceful and adaptive, eager to embrace constant change, growth and learning  
  
• Bachelor’s degree; graduate degree in education or related field is ideal 
  
• Native Chinese speaker with professional fluency in English  
  
• Actively utilize practices that promote diversity,  equity,  and inclusion in the classroom and amongst colleagues
  

Benefits

• Basic Salary: Negotiable
  
• International Insurance and Local Insurance
  
• Free tuition for child
  
• other benefits