Early Years Teacher
Dipont Huayao Collegiate School Kunshan
Jiangsu
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- August 2023
- Apply by:
- 16 December 2022
Job overview
Are you an early years educator that enjoys helping students see how their thoughts and views make sense of and shape their world? Dipont Huayao Collegiate School Kunshan is seeking an Early Years Teacher to join its diverse, enthusiastic and highly supportive community of teachers, working in a beautifully appointed and state of the art campus.
Background
The kindergarten at Huayao Collegiate is an innovative hub of outstanding early childhood practice for children aged 2 to 6. It is grounded in evidence-based theories of education using an international curriculum framework fusing Chinese and Western pedagogical approaches.
Salary and benefits
- Highly competitive salary levels
- High quality housing
- Annual return airfare for employee and dependents
- Medical insurance for employee and dependents
- Full tuition support for employees with school-age children
About the school
Facilities
The purpose-built preschool at Huayao Collegiate is well-provisioned, calming and beautiful, designed placing equal importance on indoor and outdoor learning environments.
Culture
A strong sense of culture and place enables our students to feel connected to their home, community and the wider world. Our children do not have to sacrifice their first language and culture in order to acquire another. In embracing the full marriage of eastern and western cultures and educational beliefs, we seek to ensure that international mindedness runs indelibly through the DNA of our own cultural identity.
Development
This is a unique opportunity for aspiring educators with an interest in being mentored or furthering their existing knowledge of project learning, social constructivism and applying a critical lens to their work.
About you
- Formal teaching qualification
- Experience in early years or lower primary education
- Interest in progressive early education and a growth mindset
- Ability to work collaboratively and contribute to the development of an outstanding school
About Dipont Education
We have been at the forefront of international education in China for more than thirty years. We employ over 400 expat teachers and have more than 6,000 students enrolled in our high school programs, partnered with some of the best schools in the country. Our independent schools across China are model examples of what a fusion of Chinese and Western pedagogy can become.
Professional development includes a thorough orientation for new staff as well as ongoing contact with experts in the field. Internal career path opportunities are open to capable and high performing educators, with the potential to move into curricula or program management roles.
Early application preferred. To submit an application, please click here
For further information, please contact emily.wang@dipont.com
School website: https://www.dipont-hc.com/
About Dipont Huayao Collegiate School Kunshan
- Dipont Huayao Collegiate School Kunshan
- Junction of Jingwang Road and, Huanhuatang Road, Kunshan Economic and, Technological Development Zone
- Suzhou, Jiangsu
- China
This is Dipont’s third independent school project, following the successful establishment of RDFZ King’s College School Hangzhou and Nanwai King’s College School Wuxi. The campus in Kunshan is nearing completion and, at capacity, will provide an outstanding learning environment for 2,800 scholars and feature state-of-the-art laboratories, a performing arts center with an 800 seat theater and first-class sports complexes.
The school is enrolling students for September 2020 and opening up a range of teaching positions from preschool to 10th grade. By 2022, the school will grow into a full upper school through 12th grade, offering AP classes and advanced specialized electives in all subject areas over the following two years.
The campus consists of:
• A preschool for children aged 2 to 6
• An elementary school for grades 1 to 5
• A middle school for grades 6 to 8
• An upper school for grades 9 to 12
This is a partnership project between Dipont Education Management Group and The No.2 High School Affiliated to East China Normal University (commonly referred to in Chinese as Huaer).
Dipont Education is a highly successful international education management company at the forefront in developing international programmes in China. Over 6,500 students currently study A Level, IBDP or AP programmes in 26 partner schools. Please see http://www.dipont.com for more information.
East China Normal University is known as the premier teacher training university in China, and its affiliated high school has a long-established reputation for its progressive approach to the development of teaching and learning.
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