International Music Teacher and Head of Performing Art
NAS Jiaxing
Zhejiang
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- 01 August 2026
- Apply by:
- 31 July 2026
Job overview
ENGAGEMENT AND INTERACTION – SCHOOL AMBASSADOR TO INTERNAL COMMUNITY
§ Inspire trust and confidence in students, colleagues and parents;
§ Engage and motivate students;
§ Build a strong teaching team and create the conditions for it to excel;
§ Continually strive to develop the quality of students’ learning;
§ Use the student tracking and monitoring process to advance student learning and enhance professional practice in line with the school's aspirations and priorities;
§ Contribute significantly to school improvement/development planning and promote the learning priorities of the school development plan;
§ Manage the operation of the department/faculty smoothly and seamlessly;
§ Develop and deploy resources to support high quality student learning;
§ Promote the wider aspirations and values of the school.
PLANNING, PREPARATION AND TEACHING
§ Teach students so that they achieve the best they can by:
§ Planning effective teaching programmes which provide exemplary learning opportunities within and beyond the classroom;
§ Implement the embedded arts curriculum created in collaboration with The Juilliard School
§ Positively targeting and supporting individual learning needs;
§ Maintaining high levels of behaviour and discipline;
§ Effectively using homework and other extra-curricular learning opportunities;
§ Establishing a purposeful and safe learning environment;
§ Using modern technology to enhance learning opportunities;
§ Making use of Nord Anglia Education Global Campus online.
§ Make effective use of formative and summative assessment to plan challenging learning opportunities for all students
§ Monitor and record students’ learning to ensure they remain on track to achieve challenging targets
§ Report on progress to appropriate stakeholders.
EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
§ Support the life of the school beyond the classroom;
§ Lead one or more agreed after school activities each week;
§ Participate in residential weeks and other trips as appropriate;
§ Contribute to whole school learning initiatives during term.
§ Involvement in/supervision of all school productions.
LEADERSHIP
§ Coach, mentor and help develop subject teachers to be the best they can be;
§ Create meaningful accountability for outcomes;
§ Be an outstanding role model;
§ Create transformational change in the faculty.
§ Oversee peripatetic music/dance/drama teacher provision
About NAS Jiaxing
THE SCHOOL
Opened in September 2020, NAS Jiaxing provides a state of the art, world-class learning and teaching environment with a total student capacity of 2,028 and a boarding capacity of 864 for students aged 3-18. Providing a unique blended learning experience, NAS Jiaxing offers students the best of Eastern and Western education resources and philosophies. The bilingual programme will follow a progressive blend of core elements of the Chinese National Curriculum with other renowned international curricula taught through the medium of Mandarin Chinese and English.
With strategic alliance with Nord Anglia Education and its global family of schools, NAS Jiaxing license their academic resources, systems and services. The Global Campus will connect NAS Jiaxing students with other NAE schools based in 31 different countries worldwide. Students will be able to extend their international experience through opportunities to learn abroad, to connect with more than 70,000 students through the innovative online platform and to take advantage of exciting experiences and expeditions.
Through our collaborations with The Juilliard School, MIT and UNICEF, we embrace innovation to ensure students and teachers have the skills and knowledge they will need to succeed in the future.
For more information about our school, please visit www.nasjiaxing.cn
ABOUT THE CITY - JIAXING
Jiaxing, situated in northeast Zhejiang Province, the hinterland of Hangjiahu Plain of Yangtze River Delta (YRD), is one of the major cities in the YRD. Bordering the East China Sea in the east, the Qiantang River in the south, the Taihu Lake in the north and the Tianmuhu Lake in the west, Jiaxing, with the Grand Canal passing through, lies at the junction of rivers, lakes and the sea as the passage of Southern Taihu Corridor. The distance between Jiaxing and Shanghai, Hangzhou, Suzhou or Huzhou is less than 100 kilometres.
Jiaxing, a prosperous land known as Land of Rice and Fish and Home of Silk, has the characteristics of Jiangnan waterside towns. With the area of 4,275 square kilometres, it governs 2 districts (Nanhu, Xiuzhou), 3 country-level cities (Haining, Tongxiang and Pinghu) and 2 counties (Jiashan, Hiayan). It had a permanent population of 4.73 million at the end of 2018, including urban population of 3.12 million, with an urbanization rate of 66.0%.
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