MS English Language Teacher (G6) – Aug 2025 – Shanghai, China
Job Description
Employer: Shanghai SMIC Private School
Contract Length: 2 years
Number of Vacancies: 1
Student Level:
- Middle School
Eligible Candidates:
- Licensed Teacher
School Requirements:
- Education Required: Bachelor
- Minimum Teaching Experience: 2 years of teaching experience
- Major: English, Writing
- Required Certificates:
Teaching Credential/License
- Work Visa Eligibility: United States (USA), United Kingdom (UK), Canada, South Africa, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand
Additional School Requirements:
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required in an education-related field (i.e., secondary English), but a bachelors’ degree in a related field (such as English, journalism, writing, or educational administration) is considered if held with a teaching license
- 2 years of full-time employment teaching secondary English.
- Possess a valid teaching license/certificate
- Other visa requirements as outlined by Chinese laws and regulations
Job Benefits: Moving Allowance:For candidates who live abroad when hired.
- RMB 7,000 for single employees.
- RMB 14,000 for married employees.
- $100 (USD) excess baggage reimbursement per employee ($250 per married teaching couple with dependents).
For candidates who live in mainland China when hired.
- RMB 3,000 for single employees.
- RMB 6,000 for married employees.
Reoccurring Flights/Transportation:
- Full-time employees are eligible for a home visit/travel subsidy for each full year of employment. In the event of partial-year employment, the subsidy payment will be made only during the months in which the employee is on the payroll.
Medical Insurance:
- SMIC offers comprehensive medical insurance coverage for all employees, both domestic and international, with minimal premium contributions from employees.
- Dependents, including spouses and children under 21, can be covered with a modest additional premium under the same plan. The employee co-payment for both premiums and treatment expenses is highly competitive, and the cap on medical expense coverage is approximately RMB 5 million annually.
Other Insurances:
- A range of insurance products for our foreign employee clients, including term life, critical illness, accidental death, and dismemberment coverage, are provided to every foreign employee.
Tuition for Dependents:
- For foreign employees, up to 2 dependents receive a tuition benefit that covers 80% of the annual tuition.
- Uniforms, transportation, meals, and textbooks are not covered.
Bonus:
- Performance-based annual bonus starting after the first full year of service.
- Teacher incentive allowance is also available.
Job Description: MS English Language Arts Teacher Duties:
- Work with students in grades 6, as assigned for the school year; teaching assignments take into consideration a teacher’s area of interest
- Strong commitment to middle grades educational philosophy as supported by the Association for Middle-Level Education (AMLE)
- Carry out the ongoing development of the school’s MS language arts curriculum following the Understanding by Design (UbD) concepts
- Prepare effective and diverse classroom lessons to implement the school’s language arts curriculum following the school’s accepted methods
- Design authentic subject assessments and measure their effectiveness in meeting curricular goals
- Differentiate lesson plans to meet the needs of both struggling and advanced students.
- Lead an enhancement and or enrichment for middle school students who need specialized support during EEE (Enhancement, Exploration, Enrichment)
- Help direct and coordinate student participation projects for special events during the school year, including (but not limited to) the Humanities Symposium, English Week, and other school events
- Helping to maintain and care for the MS language arts supplies and equipment, including inventorying those items
- Helping to care for assigned classrooms
- Helping train and guide students to follow proper safety procedures
- Collaborate with grade-level team to plan, teach, and assess interdisciplinary units
- Comfortable working with advanced motivated students who have strong academic backgrounds
- Support the work of grade-level initiatives, including sponsored student clubs/activities
General Teacher Duties:
- Positively and productively collaborate with grade-level or department teachers
- Actively and positively promote the school’s “Expected School-wide Learning Results” (ESLRs): global citizenship, motivated learners, healthy individuals, and persons of character
- Follow the SMIC Code of Ethics and school policies as outlined in the most current version of the SMIC Staff Handbook
- Closely follow the SMIC-I “Curriculum, Instruction, and Textbook Policy” as is appropriate for the Chinese context
- Maintain and update timely student records including (class webpages, grading homework, grade books, progress reports, report cards, student attendance, and other required documents)
- Be actively involved in at least 40 hours of administrator-approved extra-curricular activities a year as a faculty sponsor/advisor/coach/helper/school committee member
- Actively fulfill assigned supervision duties, including passing period duty, lunch duty, study hall assignments, etc.
- Work closely with parents/guardians by providing feedback on progress, answering questions, and being an educational partner regarding their child’s learning
- Proactively meet and communicate with parents/guardians, students, and other teachers when necessary to develop interventions for students with academic, emotional/behavioral, or other needs
- Take an active role in required meetings (grade level; departmental; grade level; committees, faculty; etc.)
Shanghai SMIC Private School
Shanghai, China
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