Teacher of Mathematics
Akademeia High School
Warsaw, Poland
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- August 2024
- Apply by:
- 2 June 2024
Job overview
We are looking for a dynamic, academically-driven teacher to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the Akademeia High School community, which is already a well-established international school in its eight year of operation. The school boasts a vibrant academic environment with fantastic faculty members and a supportive administrative team.
About Akademeia:
Akademeia High School is an academically-selective school in Warsaw, offering IGCSEs and A Levels alongside Akademeia Assessed Courses. The majority of our students are preparing to study at Oxbridge, Russell group, and Ivy League universities as well as acclaimed architecture, art and music schools. With a rigorous admissions process and A Level classes taught in the form of undergraduate seminars, the school pursues a pre-university university model. The school offers a robust scholarship programme, with 10% of places allocated to merit-based, partial and full scholarships. Together with Akademeia High School Foundation, the school also supports several educational outreach and community engagement initiatives.
About the job:
You will teach Mathematics and Further Mathematics to students aged 14-18, across a range of Mathematics courses at IGCSE and A Level.
The full-time teaching commitment is 20 hours of instruction per week with generous time allowances built into the timetable to facilitate effective preparation, marking, and report writing. The maximum class size is 12, which allows our students to benefit from more focused and personalised teaching. Teachers are expected to either be involved in pastoral care (tutoring of a small group) or supporting student clubs and co-curricular activities. The regular school week is from Monday to Friday, with occasional school events happening on weekends (e.g. open days, school trips) that teachers may be required to attend.
About you:
We are looking for professionals demonstrably committed to pursuing a career in education. The successful candidate will be able to both inspire and widen students’ interests in their subject as well as effectively guide them in exam preparation.
Educational Qualifications
• A Bachelor’s degree or higher in Mathematics
Experience
• Teaching experience specifically in A Levels or International Baccalaureate
• Thorough knowledge of the subject curricula: GCSE and A level
• Involvement in extra-curricular activities: professional, amateur, or voluntary
• Experience managing and leading groups of students/young people
For more information about the school, please visit our website: https://akademeia.edu.pl/en/
To apply please send your CV along with a covering letter to: jobs@akademeia.edu.pl
Selected candidates will be invited to interviews with the Headmaster and the Head of Department. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to deliver a demonstration lesson.
It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
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About Akademeia High School
Akademeia High School is an international, academically-selective school in Warsaw, offering A-levels and GCSEs. We are an accredited UCAS centre and Edexcel (Pearson) and AQA examination centre for the English GCE Advanced Levels. We have also prepared a special intensive SAT/ACT exam course for students who are interested in applying to American universities.
We offer IGCSEs and A Levels alongside Akademeia Assessed Courses, which supplement and go beyond the prescribed UK Examination Boards’ curricula. In years 10 and 11 students take interdisciplinary Akademeia Assessed Courses and iGCSEs subjects.
All students at Akademeia High School work towards A Level exams, giving them the opportunity to build their own academic profile from the wide variety of subjects on offer. This unique approach, which is tailored to the students’ greatest strengths, allows them to develop several valuable skills, such as critical thinking, effective communication and problem solving.
Our school focuses on developing both students’ academic abilities and their artistic, athletic and leadership potential. The majority of our students are preparing to study at Oxbridge, Russell group, and Ivy League universities as well as acclaimed architecture, art and music schools. The school offers a substantial scholarship program with about 10% of students being scholars.
Our mission
We strive to help our students realise their intellectual and creative ambitions and stretch their abilities in our pre-university university environment. We provide a pathway to the leading universities across the globe and prepare our students for the ever-changing world.
With critical thinking at the heart of our curricula, we nurture student agency, encourage dialogue, and follow an interdisciplinary approach to develop in our pupils a lifelong passion for learning.
Multidimensional education
By understanding the requirements of the best universities in the world, we take care of the academic achievements on the one hand and we actively promote the personal development of our students (participation in volunteer activities, internships, competitions, workshops) on the other.
We place great emphasis on critical thinking and we believe it is important to develop our students’ varied competences, such as: communication and presentation, creativity and innovation, teamwork and project management, critical thinking and problem solving, ability to collect, filter and absorb information.
University acceptances: classes of 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 & 2023
University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, London School of Economics, Imperial College London, University College London, King’s College London, University of Exeter, University of Bristol, University of St Andrews, Durham University, Glasgow School of Art, University of the Arts London, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Columbia University, Duke University, University of Chicago, Princeton University, Wesleyan University, New York University, University of Notre Dame, Parsons University, University of Washington, Berklee College of Music, University of Pennsylvania,University of British Columbia, Purdue, Carnegie Mellon, University of Amsterdam, University of York, University of Southern California, Design Academy of Eindhoven, Esade, Bocconi University, IE University, MIT, Boston College, Boston University, Delft University of Technology, UNC at Chapel Hill, Brown University.
School building
Architecture should stimulate, inspire and give students the feeling of being in an important and unique place. We want our school to be a place where students don’t want to leave. To achieve our educational goals we have created:
Professional spaces for academic work
- modern biology, chemistry and physics laboratories designed in collaboration with leading academic centers
- spacious classrooms with oval (”Harkness”) tables
A unique space for artistic activities and creative work
- a 100 square meter art studio adapted for classes in painting, printmaking and sculpture
- a multimedia studio
- music room with a recording studio
- an auditorium/theatre with seating for 300 people
A comfortable space for sport
- gymnasium with courts and other extensive sport facilities
Inspiring spaces for individual work and relaxation
- green roof (over 1000 m2 of vegetation)
- green patio
- cafeteria
- study lounge
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