Perform the following job duties at an international boarding school:
Teach a range of students in Upper School Mandarin courses, following a curriculum guide;
Support first- and second-year ELL students to manage course expectations, especially in language-rich courses;
Embrace student-centered teaching practices and backward design in curriculum planning;
Favor a linguistic communicative approach where permanent interactions promote higher proficiency levels of students.
Create learning environments where students are challenged;
Foster the school community;
Demonstrate warmth, collegiality, humor, and industry in interactions with students and colleagues;
Lead at least two extracurricular and/or athletic endeavors in addition to classroomduties;
Contribute to school life outside of the classroom on a lively boarding school campus.
Provide support for English Language Learners
Understand the integration of the ELL program and how it ties into the course curriculum
Knowledge of Chinese-speaking cultures
Work with a variety of learning styles
Write and communicate in Mandarin and English
Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Education and 3 years of experience in job offered or 3 years of experience as a Teacher of ENL/ELL and Mandarin or any other job title performing the following job duties: Performed the following job duties at a boarding school:
Embraced student-centered teaching practices and backward design in curriculum planning;
Favored a linguistic communicative approach where permanent interactions promote higher proficiency levels of students.
Created learning environments where students are challenged;
Fostered the school community;
Demonstrated warmth, collegiality, humor, and industry in interactions with students and colleagues;
Lead at least two extracurricular and/or athletic endeavors in addition to classroomduties;
Contributed to school life outside of the classroom on a lively boarding school campus.
Provided support for English Language Learners
Understood the integration of the ENL program and how it ties into the course curriculum
Knowledge of Chinese-speaking cultures
Worked with a variety of learning styles
Wrote and communicated in Mandarin and English Salary: $76,640/year. Apply online at https://pennington.isolvedhire.com under Posting Number ELL.