Newly Qualified Science Teacher

ACS International Schools are recruiting a Newly Qualified Science Teacher to join our Cobham campus. We are recruiting a Newly Qualified Science Teacher to positively impact student learning outcomes and inspire lifelong learning.

ACS International Schools are proud of our international and multicultural ethos. The diversity of our student body is what makes ACS different, with 70 different nationalities within the school, internationalism is a part of everyday life. ACS is more than just a school, the international community is friendly and vibrant with a global outlook, helping to guide our students and prepare them for what’s next.

The post holder will be working within a campus of outstanding facilities in a beautiful countryside setting, inclusive of world-class facilities like our swimming pool, sports centre, and state-of-the-art theatre.

Skills, Knowledge, and Dispositions required:

• Confident with a high degree of self-efficacy (a belief that you can make a difference)
• Resilient: doesn’t give up or grow discouraged in the face of challenges, set backs and hard work; willing to take the long view
• Adaptable: able to change course, make new plans, and try a different way; coachable and open to constructive critique
• Collegial: enjoys being part of a team, celebrates the success of others and knows how to give and receive criticism
• Emotionally intelligent: good listener, with a sense of humour; displays genuine empathy, compassion and respect.
• Enthusiastic: passionate for the subject and profession, committed to the welfare of children
• Driven: self-disciplined, with high personal standards and ambitious to learn
• Engaged with the community: aware of local and global challenges; willing to pitch in and give back
• High ethical integrity exercises good judgement, acts with fairness and integrity, complies with regulations and programme requirements
• A teaching qualification

Essential Responsibilities and Duties:

• A core member of a Teaching Residency Team (T-Res), a tightly collaborative team of two Resident Teachers/Teacher Lead
• In addition to own classes/sections: co-teaches, co-plans, supports, and observes in all Resident Teaching Team classes
• Undertakes set Professional Learning for continuous professional growth in current best practices in teaching and learning (must engage in our micro credentialing programme annually)
• Teaches effectively to improve student achievement, demonstrating high levels of understanding and skilled application of accepted teaching standards
• Managing learner development and learning environments
• Using pedagogical content knowledge, and teaching students how to apply their understanding to the world beyond the classroom
• Implementing world class practices in assessment, planning (including curriculum design) and instructional strategy
• Exercising responsibility in professional development, ethics and collaboration
• Implements research-informed teaching behaviours that utilise learning sciences
• Consistently differentiate for learning differences
• Create and sustain culturally responsive classrooms
• Motivate students to set and achieve challenging goals
• Lead to demonstrated learning results
• Keeps timely and complete records, and reports student progress as required
• Supports school operations and learning beyond the classroom by supervising activities, leading extracurricular programmes and service, chaperoning educational visits, amongst other things
• Engages with educational and community organisations within and external to ACS
• Partners with parents to support students’ social and emotional development
• Champions students’ and colleagues’ health, safety and wellbeing
• Maintains academic integrity
• Ensures our values are embedded into everyday practice

To learn more about working at ACS, please visit www.acs-schools.com/working-acs

To apply, please send us your CV via the apply button.

We look forward to receiving your application. 

ACS celebrates diversity as an equal opportunities employer and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and, as an employee of ACS, you are expected to share this commitment. This position is therefore subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.