IB English Teacher – Kunshan City, China

Job Description: School Introduction:Kunshan Kang Chiao School is a fully authorized IB World School, offering the Diploma Programme (DP), Middle Years Programme (MYP), and Primary Years Programme (PYP). Additionally, it serves as an A-Level examination center, providing the A-Level program, and is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) to offer Advanced Placement (AP) courses. The school offers a comprehensive 15-year educational continuum, spanning from kindergarten to high school, and is home to approximately 5,000 students and 1,000 staff members. It covers an area of 215 acres, divided into north and south campuses.The North Campus houses both the kindergarten and primary school. Kindergarten is the starting point of a 15-year KCISEC schooling career. It adopts the PYP program, and under the guidance of Chinese and foreign teachers, children can fully enjoy the fun of learning. The primary school implements the national elementary education curriculum incorporated with the California curriculum and school-based curriculum as a supplement, which forms a three-in-one experimental teaching model. Through a multi-disciplinary, inclusive, and immersive bilingual education, the primary school aims to help students foster an open-minded approach to Western and Eastern education, laying a solid bilingual foundation for all students.The South campus is the campus and dormitories for middle and high school students. The middle school curriculum is based on the national curriculum standards. It focuses on building a school-based curriculum as well as an elite curriculum, to cultivate students’ ability to communicate, explore, and think in both Chinese and English. The adoption of American Common Core courses, the implementation of AP courses, A-level programs, and IB programs, and the diversification of activities, not only add extra advantages for students to apply to world-famous colleges but also cultivate students’ ability to take their knowledge learned here with them. At the same time, the school offers tutoring for TOEFL, SAT, and other examinations, assisted by professional supervisors. This fully supports students to successfully sprint to the most prestigious colleges in the world.School Facilities:As well as classrooms for each teacher, we are pleased to offer our students a digitalized teaching and learning environment, library facilities, fully equipped science labs, a performing arts center, athletic tracks, a climbing wall, a zip line, multiple basketball and tennis courts, indoor swimming pools, two cafeterias’, a coffee shop and multiple residence halls.Curriculum:

• To be familiar with and comply with IB departmental and school-wide principles, procedures, and practices of curriculum development and evaluation.
• To thoroughly plan the structure and components of each lesson and make full use of a variety of appropriate, authentic resources/ materials aligned with learning objectives set in units.
• To integrate aspects of multilingualism, intercultural awareness, and global engagement in real-world issues and contexts in the development of creative, applicable lessons unit plans to allow students to understand multiple perspectives.
• To explicate links between learning objectives and outcomes set in unit plans with ‘approaches to learning’ and the learner profile attributes.
• To ensure all learning components, activities, materials, and assessment strategies are in alignment with the philosophy, fundamental concepts, pedagogical approaches, and core components of the DP.
• To plan and prepare lessons that cater to the needs of the mixed-ability range within the class including those who are second language learners or have learning difficulties.

Teaching & Learning:

• To develop strategies to link students’ knowledge and understanding to prior learning.
• To use appropriate instructional practices that promote high academic standards and inclusive education within the DP.
• To use teaching strategies to promote higher-order thinking, international mindedness, and metacognition within the subject areas, and to ensure that reflection and self-evaluation are encouraged in all subject areas to develop students’ ability to think critically.
• Use a variety of technologies in teaching and learning.
• To constantly use IB-specific terminologies in the classroom to form shared understandings of those essential components of the programs.
• To communicate expected behaviors with students to establish shared understandings and accordingly to adopt a range of effective classroom management strategies.
• To provide a learning environment to encourage the ownership of learning and promote intercultural understanding /international-mindedness and respect, while encouraging self-expression.
• To take part in interdisciplinary unit planning and implementation that strengthens cross-curricular skills and deepens the understanding of key concepts.
• To stay current on all changes within the DP through the use of the Programme Resource Centre (PRC) and the DP coordinator.
• To explore current educational theory and practice to gather evidence to fully prepare lessons and improve pedagogy.

Assessment:

• To be familiar with the principles of the DP assessment, subject-specific past exam and specimen papers, assessment criteria and mark schemes, subject reports, etc.
• To design and use appropriate and authentic tasks and strategies for formative and summative assessment of DP subject group objectives, and to ensure that these are supported by benchmarks and exemplars.
• To be familiar with the KCISEC Assessment Policy and meet all deadlines specified in school and IB assessment calendars.
• To ensure all assessment components are moderated in collaboration with other DP subject teachers.
• To ensure that feedback and marking are criteria-based, transparent, detailed, informative, and constructively critical to encourage reflection on and learning from their performance.
• To use assessment data to inform planning and facilitate further learning.
• To keep full and accurate records of individual students’ (academic and non-academic) performance including uploading grades to ManageBac.

Professional Responsibilities:

• To make recommendations for the collection of suitable teaching and learning resources and maintain records of textbooks and teaching materials used.
• To take all necessary precautions to protect, maintain, and return all equipment and materials.
• To inform the line manager (as appropriate) of any ongoing difficulties or potential concerns.
• To supervise DP CAS and EE when assigned.
• To participate in collaborative planning meetings including departmental meetings and grade-level pastoral meetings and also school events such as open days.
• To follow school guidelines and procedures when organizing field trips.
• To maintain curriculum documentation, including ManageBac, to ensure professional handover of all teaching and learning resources to new teachers joining the school.
• To fully engage in the teacher evaluation and monitoring processes and activities and incorporate the feedback into the individualized PD plan with the facilitation of school pedagogical leaders.
• To protect the rights of the student by maintaining the confidentiality of student information and records.
• To be familiar with the KCISEC Child Protection policy and report immediately when any associated incidents happen.