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Middle School Instructional Coach

Middle School Instructional Coach

UWC South East Asia, East Campus

Singapore

Job type:
Full Time, Fixed Term
Start date:
January 2020 or August 2020
Apply by:
21 September 2019

Job overview

The post

UWCSEA has a vacancy to start in January 2020 or August 2020 at its East Campus for a Middle School Instructional Coach. The Instructional Coach supports student learning by assisting teachers and leaders to develop and extend our teaching practice. Our pedagogical practices are founded on UWCSEA Learning Principles and the UWCSEA Profile  and the conceptual and inquiry-based approaches implicit in our school curriculum. This learning coach position requires leadership, coaching, consultation, collaboration, and facilitation of professional learning. The coach will be expected to have a teaching load within the Middle School. 

Main responsibilities

  • Build trusting and collaborative relationships with teachers in order to support teaching practices across all curricular areas in ways that reflect the UWCSEA Learning Principles and UWCSEA Profile.
  • Model strategies, provide leadership, coaching, and professional development to teachers.
  • Work collaboratively with teachers and curricular leaders by supporting them to conceptualise and realise their professional learning goals through structures such as coaching cycles and action research groups.
  • Lead and/or attend meetings with teams to share research and developments, identify instructional objectives, and plan for teaching and learning opportunities.
  • Support teams with implementation of curriculum, including assisting with unit design, curriculum mapping and assessment of intended learning.
  • Plan and facilitate professional learning that supports Readers and Writers Workshop pedagogy in collaboration with the Head of Middle School English. 
  • Support the ongoing development of classroom libraries across curricular areas. 
  • Use data as a tool for discussion and decision making with teams.
  • Promote vertical and horizontal articulation and coherence of student learning.
  • Provide leadership and guidance in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary learning.
  • Support teams and individual teachers in intentionally planning and embedding culturally responsive and intercultural learning practices. 
  • In collaboration with the Middle School Leadership Team and Digital Literacy Coach, explore innovations that support student learning.
  • Plan for and work with external consultants as required.
  • Provide input and recommendations into the Middle School strategic development plan.

Person specification

  • A good degree and a recognized teaching qualification or certification are expected.
  • A strong desire and commitment to support young adolescent learning. 
  • Teachers should be willing and eager to participate in the five key elements of a UWCSEA education:
  • Academics; Activities; Outdoor Education; Personal and Social Education and Service Academic expectations include enthusiastic participation in Professional Learning
  • Excellent intercultural communication skills, experience and pedagogical knowledge in areas outlined by the UWCSEA Learning Principles and the UWCSEA Profile.
  • Experience of developing concept-based teaching approaches, contemporary assessment practices and the application of technology to enhance learning across all five elements of our learning programme.
  • A commitment to diversity and inclusion is essential alongside a willingness to adapt and develop pedagogy to meet the needs of our learners
  • Ability to inspire, lead and model pedagogical practices for improved student learning.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively, communicate clearly, self-manage and to think and act in critical, creative and innovative ways to support teaching and learning across the Middle School.
  • On average the College expects a yearly contribution of two sessions per week in each season to Activities and/or Service.
  • The College expects that teachers will participate enthusiastically in the curricular Outdoor Education experiences which are relevant to their students and will also occasionally volunteer for holiday Outdoor Education trips.

The following would be an advantage:

  • Knowledge and experience of international curricula, their delivery and assessment
  • Experience/understanding with Readers and Writers Workshop frameworks

Interested applicants to submit application via our portal by Sunday, 22 September 2019,11:59 PM Singapore Time.

About us

UWCSEA welcomes applications from all qualified candidates. If you are committed to contributing to a dynamic learning community, UWCSEA might be the perfect next step for you. Visit our website to learn more.

We are committed to safeguarding our students and protecting them from harm. In keeping with the expectation that all staff and volunteers share this commitment, applicants for a position at the College must be willing to undergo employment background checks and screening appropriate to the post.



About UWC South East Asia, East Campus

About UWCSEA and the UWC movement

The pursuit of the UWC mission to unite people nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future is at the heart of the College. As the largest of the 17 UWC schools and colleges worldwide, UWCSEA in Singapore has over 5,600 day and boarding students enrolled across two campuses, aged 4 to 18 years. Our concept-based K-12 curriculum leads to the IB Diploma in the final two years of schooling.

Our vision is to be a leader in international education, with a worldwide reputation for providing a challenging, holistic values-based education with an emphasis upon academic achievement, service to others, teamwork and leadership.

In the pursuit of this vision, we provides teachers with a dynamic and challenging a professional life based upon our values. Our staff are innovative, experienced and deeply committed to student learning. The learning at UWCSEA extends throughout the College community as our staff are active and collaborative learners themselves.

UWCSEA guiding statements

We are a mission-driven organisation with a strong commitment to the educational principles of Kurt Hahn, our founder, and a passionate belief in the importance of education as a force for good in the world.

We believe that learning is a life-long process in which learners engage with and reflect upon information and experiences to construct new or modify existing understanding as well as develop and apply skills and qualities.

This definition of learning and our learning principles guide our educational practice across all five elements of the UWCSEA learning programme. Our commitment to a holistic education results in the provision of an extensive range of experiential and service-based programmes across five elements of this learning programmes: academics, activities, outdoor education, personal and social education and service.

UWCSEA's learning programme and curriculum

Our UWCSEA learning programme is based around five interlinking elements. The rigorous academics, combined with a unique outdoor education programme, extensive activities and meaningful service, are underpinned by a supportive pastoral care programme. Students participate in all five elements of the programme throughout their time at the College, and the elements will have varying importance at different times in their journey through UWCSEA.

The learning programme delivers UWCSEA's unique, concept-based curriculum which has been articulated for each element of the learning programme across K-12. This means that from K1 to Grade 12, each curriculum area (or subject) has standards, which identify key concepts that underpin that curriculum area. These standards are applied at all grade levels and build naturally in complexity through the Infant, Junior, Middle and High Schools, culminating in the IB Diploma in Grades 11 and 12.

In turn, each standard has conceptual understandings that describe what a student should understand as a result of studying a particular content area. They are statements of understanding that are appropriate to a student’s developmental stage, and build towards the standard.

Benchmarks are then attached to each conceptual understanding. The benchmarks describe what a student should know, understand or be able to do at each stage of their learning in each subject. These benchmarks are what our teachers assess to ensure that students are reaching the conceptual understanding and are working towards the standards.

In the High School, the standards, conceptual understandings and benchmarks specifically take into account the requirements of external examining bodies that set the (I)GCSE and IB Diploma examinations that students sit at the end of Grade 10 and Grade 12.

Educating for a better world

The academic curriculum aims to develop the specific conceptual understandings necessary to build Peace and a Sustainable Future. These are derived from UNESCO’s Education for Sustainable Development Goals for and through a collaboration with our educational partners the Ellen Macarthur Foundation. Along with the skills and qualities of our Learner Profile many of these concepts are reinforced through linkages to the other four elements of our Leaning Programme. You can find out more here.

Results

UWCSEA has outstanding IB Diploma results. In May 2019, our cohort of 561 students achieved an average IB Diploma score of 36.6—the worldwide average was 29.8 (in 2018). Each year a number of our students are admitted to highly selective universities in the US, the UK and many other countries. For further information please see the results section of our website.

Staff and structure

Each campus has its own Campus Leadership team and academic and administrative staff to support the delivery of UWCSEA’s world-class education. Each campus is divided into Schools (Primary, Middle and High). Each School is managed by a Principal, assisted by Vice Principals and Heads of Grade or Department.

The College President oversees both campuses, supported by senior educational leadership on each campus. The campuses have the same Board of Governors.

The Dover Campus has 3,000 day and boarding students (K-12) and employs 300 teaching and 200 support staff. The East Campus has 2,550 day and boarding students (K-12) and  employs 240 teaching staff and 160 support staff.

The boarding houses on both campuses are supported by live-in teaching staff and offer a unique opportunity for a city-based residential boarding programme to students aged 14-18 years - 192 students on Dover and 160 students on East.

Our expectations

We welcome applications from educators who share our vision and values, and are willing to contribute to UWCSEA's unique learning community and to the UWC mission.

Teachers are expected to contribute wholeheartedly to the provision of all elements of this programme both inside and outside the formal academic curriculum. All teachers run activities or service projects in addition to their teaching, which can include supporting the College's range of sporting, dramatic and musical performances, as well as providing support for the extensive expeditions programme.

Safeguarding children

UWCSEA is committed to safeguarding our students and protecting them from harm. In keeping with the expectation that all staff and volunteers share this commitment, those applying for a position at the College must be willing to undergo employment background checks and screening appropriate to the post.

Professional  life and development opportunities

UWCSEA aims to provide an exceptional professional experience to its teachers and to be an Employer of Choice. The UWCSEA benefits package includes a competitive salary, contribution towards housing, medical insurance, a service gratuity (set at 20 percent of gross salary at the end of each year), recruitment and repatriation flights and biennial leave passages.

We offer a wide range of professional development opportunities. Teachers are expected to commit to three professional development days scheduled each year, and are provided many additional opportunities for professional learning through our the extensive Professional Development Programme.

We have a highly experienced teaching faculty who provide excellent opportunities for peer-to-peer learning. Among the full-time teaching staff, we have large numbers of IB PYP Trainers, IB MYP workshop leaders, IB DP workshop leaders and IB DP Examiners or Moderators, allowing us to run in-house workshops and seminars.

Teachers attend workshops or seminars in the region, and at the College’s Centre for Professional Learning. This in-house Centre allows UWCSEA teachers to attend a range of educational conferences and other events that draw teachers from across the region, providing extensive opportunities for peer learning and networking. In the past, external experts who have visited to provide workshops or seminars on campus include Bambi Betts, Kath Murdoch, Dylan Wiliam, Lyn Sharratt and Sarah White.

Our teachers also regularly act as lecturers, seminar leaders and facilitators at educational conferences and workshops run by organisations such as EARCOS and ECIS.

Engage with us and learn more

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