IBDP Chemistry Teacher

The Dehong secondary school teacher is a chemistry subject specialist and an outstanding progressive educator. He/she creates a warm, flexible, language rich environment to promote high quality learning, student agency, and independence. The teacher understands how to support student wellbeing and the development of strong and positive character attributes essential to leading a successful and purposeful life. He/she develops positive and caring relationships with students, parents and all school staff and motivates students to love learning. He/she knows how to build discipline specific knowledge and skills and creates learning engagements, leading to deeper conceptual understanding. The teacher is ambitious for students and for their academic outcomes and exam success. He/she works in close collaboration with others across the grade level and school to develop the Dehong curriculum and to plan and deliver exciting, academically challenging, inquiry-based units, which are carefully designed to ensure the development of each student’s language competencies. The teacher believes strongly in action research and uses best practice to inform his/her planning, classroom practice and assessment strategies. A clear understanding of Dehong’s vision, mission and learning principles is essential.

Our School
Dehong International Chinese School recognises that exceptional and inspirational teachers are our most valuable resource in providing our students with an excellent international Chinese education. Dehong teachers are ambitious for their students’ learning and put students first in everything they do. They have the highest aspirations for their students’ achievement and development, both in the classroom and through the many co-and extra-curricular activities on offer. Our teachers actively promote the School’s mission and vision through their enthusiastic and full participation in school life and their supportive engagement with students, colleagues and parents.

Our Teacher Profile
At Dehong, students come first. And because teachers play an extraordinary role in nurturing our students to become confident, curious, and knowledgeable global citizens, we look to recruit the very best practitioners in international education who are passionate about unlocking the potential of our students.

Our teachers nurture and inspire their students today to make a positive difference in the world – living fully, living responsibly, and living sustainably. We empower our Academic Chinese Teachers to Live Worldwise.

Our Vision of Teachers

Our Worldwise Teachers:

• Display self-control and flexibility and nurture these skills in learners
• Promote a love of learning and student wellbeing
• Show professional initiative and perseverance
• Get on with others and have highly developed communication skills
• Are committed to internationalism and equity
• Are committed to sustainability and global citizenship
• Promote academic rigour and holistic learnin

A Worldwise Teacher values:
• Evidence-based pedagogy and personalised student learning
• A compassionate approach to complex problem-solving
• High levels of student motivation and engagement
• Professional collaboration and collective efficacy

A Worldwise Teacher's practice:
• Lifelong learning and reflective practice
• Reveals the complex and inter-disciplinary nature of learning content
• Nurtures supportive and dynamic learning environments
• Maximises every student’s opportunity to learn
• Activates hard thinking processes and skills

Group Leader Responsibilities
• To promote outstanding teaching and learning in the Group that focuses on creating a bilingual, bicultural experience that inspires and will enthuse students to learn.
• Creating a positive culture in the whole group; to be an enthusiastic role-model with a passion for their group and to be accountable for student progress and achievement within the group area.
• Assist in developing a coherent PE curriculum that aligns its objectives and learning outcomes with CNC curriculum standards and Dehong Vision & Mission.
• Liaise with MHEDB to arrange and administer the Government Fitness Test with assistance from the Academic Office.
• Support in coordinating the Zhongkao PE test with the Academic Office, which includes registration, data collection, and result analysis to improve teaching practices.
• Ensure appropriate Unit Planners are in place
• Effective monitoring of student progress on an individual or group basis (e.g. by teaching group, gender, etc.
• Ensure school's assessment framework is adhered to by the group team.
• Ensure effective management and deployment of financial, physical and human resources.
• Ensure the group team's teaching and support commitments are effectively timetabled and roomed
• Attend regular line management meetings with the linked SLT member.
• Cover arrangements, including setting appropriate cover work for absent staff if necessary.
• Contribute and lead regular group meetings with teaching and learning as a standard agenda item.
• Provide agendas and minutes of these meetings to all members of the group team, and to the SLT if required.
• Create a Group development plan that mirrors the school development plan.
• Ensure appropriate monitoring activities are undertaken through regular paired lesson observations (at least one per teacher per term), and through scrutiny of students' work, including homework, and teachers' planning, marking and assessment, in line with school monitoring policies.
• Through monitoring of assessment data, ensure appropriate targets for progress and attainment are set; that attainment is appropriate for specific groups of students, particularly EAL; identify areas of actual or potential underachievement and implement appropriate strategies to address these.
• Ensure positive behaviour for learning policies and procedures are implemented to enable effective learning to take place.
• Ensure appropriate and effective induction of teaching staff new to the group team.
• Ensure appropriate measures are in place to coach, mentor, support and guide new teachers to the group.
• Ensure that the group provides appropriate support for students applying for relevant university course, especially those applying to elite universities
• Ensure that the group provides appropriate outlets for the development of the Dehong Difference, including supporting the Qidi programme and House Competition.
• Lead and maintain FireFly, particularly the group area section and produce a short weekly blog for parents.

Director of Sports Responsibilities
• To coordinate and deliver a high quality extra curricular sports program in the School, which includes but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
o At the start of each academic year to meet with the other schools in Shanghai and set dates for fixtures for boys and girls in a range of sports
o To arrange other fixtures as appropriate to seasonal sports.
o Have oversight of the arrangements for athletics championships
o To allocate to each team a coach or coaches either from the PE staff and qualified appointed coaches or/and from teaching staff who have expressed a preference to run a team and are suitably qualified and experienced.
o To oversee the arrangements for tournaments in all sports
o To source and support suitable PD opportunities for teaching and coaching staff
• Ensure that the sports curriculum and extracurricular sports activities are closely linked and that all members of the PE team contribute to the school's extra-curricular program.
• To organise and chair regular meetings of the School PE staff for curriculum alignment, extra-curricular provision, facilities management and information sharing.
• The position will include a curriculum teaching requirement with a reduced load according to the responsibility scale.

Post-holder Qualifications, Experience
• Competence to orally and verbally communicate with parents in a professional context
• Embrace the education of the whole person
• Lead and/or support a minimum of one (1) co-curricular activity
• Attend and participate constructively in staff meetings
• Participate (including preparing students/activities) in the wider life of the school, such as assemblies, celebrations, extra-curricular events and so on
• Collaborate with colleagues across Dehong schools and Dulwich College International to share best practices around the network and participate in department-wide events as appropriate
• Support service learning and sustainability practices, events and programmes
• Other teaching and learning related tasks as determined by the Principal

How to Apply

Dehong is a well-resourced school with highly motivated and academically successful students. Successful applicants will be enthusiastic about the ethos and values of Dehong Schools. An attractive and competitive remuneration package will be offered to the chosen candidate. To apply for this position, you will need to include:
• Applications should be submitted through our on-line application system by clicking the ‘Apply button’ on this page
• For further information please see our website at career.dehong.cn

Safe at School
Dehong is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all the students in our care and expects all applicants to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices, which are aligned to the recommendations of the International Task Force on Child Protection. We hold ourselves to a high standard of effective recruiting practices with specific attention to child protection. All appointments are subject to an interview, identity checks, criminal record checks, successful references, as well as due visa and work permit process as required by Chinese law.

Starting Salary Range

We offer a highly competitive and attractive remuneration package based on your experience, qualifications, additional responsibilities and/or leadership position and location.

Accommodation

A generous housing allowance is provided to expatriate staff to support a comfortable standard of living for you and any eligible dependents within close proximity to the school campus.

Flights/Transport

Airfare allowance is provided to cover one annual return trip for expatriate staff (and eligible dependents) between your school location and home location.

Moving Allowance

We provide a shipping allowance for the shipment of personal items from and back to your home location at the beginning and end of your employment.

Dependent Opportunities

We provide education support for up to two children of our teachers.

Medical

High level of comprehensive medical insurance is provided.

Dental

Is covered within medical insurance plan.