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Avenues: The World School Shenzhen Campus
STEAM Instructor, Grades 10-12
Competitive Salary
Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
1 position available
Starting date in
2021-08-01
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About The School
Providing transformative, world-focused learning experiences to students around the globe Learn more about this schoolJob Description
Location: Shenzhen, China; Start Date: August 2021
WHY TEACH AT AVENUES?
Avenues Shenzhen, our first campus in China, opened in August 2018. The campus provides a unique early childhood program, and is now expanding to serve students in all grades from from toddler through 12. As a global network of campuses, Avenues is uniquely positioned to provide a transformative, world-focused education.
THE OPPORTUNITY
As an Upper Grades STEAM Instructor you will help establish a new model of high school education with innovation and making at its core by mentoring, guiding, and providing feedback as students create, build, and invent.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
WHY TEACH AT AVENUES?
Avenues Shenzhen, our first campus in China, opened in August 2018. The campus provides a unique early childhood program, and is now expanding to serve students in all grades from from toddler through 12. As a global network of campuses, Avenues is uniquely positioned to provide a transformative, world-focused education.
THE OPPORTUNITY
As an Upper Grades STEAM Instructor you will help establish a new model of high school education with innovation and making at its core by mentoring, guiding, and providing feedback as students create, build, and invent.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Support students to build a range of inventions, including a mechanical clock, telegraph, and smartphone
- Manage equipment, materials, and maintenance for a state-of-the-art maker space
- Support leading discussions on innovation studies and science fiction
- Collaborate intensively and daily with colleagues to design learning outcomes, monitor growth, and thoughtfully address individual student needs
- Uphold a culture of welcome, safety and respect in the Avenues community
- 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
- Work with a talented, multidisciplinary team to connect questions and challenges at the heart of making with the history and future of innovation and science
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 innovation.
The Avenues Shenzhen learning experience is divided into three year-long themes that embody the paradigms, tensions, and values at the heart of innovation and making: Discovery (Grade 10), Innovation (Grade 11), and Foresight (Grade 12). Each unit of study thoughtfully matches the construction of a significant invention with the study of carefully selected texts.
Requirements
- A drive to create things from scratch, work from a blank slate, overcome challenges, and adapt to ambiguity
- Strong background in design, technology, and engineering as well as the associated tools and software
- Intellectual curiosity and humility to reflect on and continually grow in creating a transformational experience for students
- 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 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
- Professional fluency in English; Mandarin Chinese is a plus
Benefits
- Unparalleled career growth opportunities, like a well-defined career pathway and chances to teach abroad
- The thrill of a start-up, in an organization with a proven track record of results
- Frequent feedback and top-notch, job-embedded professional learning
- The chance to impact education by demonstrating what's possible
- Competitive compensation and greater rewards for growing your impact
- A beautiful and uplifting school environment
- Housing allowance
- Commercial medical insurance
- Annual round-trip flight ticket
- Paid holidays
Post date:
2020-11-16
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