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Teacher of Chinese

Teacher of Chinese

West Island School - ESF

Hong Kong

Job type:
Full Time, Fixed Term
Apply by:
25 April 2017

Job overview

West Island School

Website: http://www.wis.edu.hk/ 

West Island School is a member of the English Schools Foundation. The School was established in 1991 and is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. As an international secondary school offering iGCSE and IB programmes, we occupy award winning buildings in the Western district of Hong Kong. We serve a stable and established community in the Pokfulam district, with over 1200 students on roll. Our school mission of strength from diversity reflects the considerable achievements of our learners from over 40 different nationalities. Our students progress to the universities of their choice because they achieve highly, are well equipped and are leaders of the future

Teacher of Chinese

Responsibilities

We are looking for a passionate, inspirational and adaptable Chinese language teacher (fluent Putonghua speaker) to join a successful and thriving department starting August 2017. You will be able to teach a diverse range of students from Years 7 to 13 covering Chinese as a foreign language; Chinese as a second language and Chinese as a first language. We offer Chinese at iGCSE and IB Standard and Higher Level.

All teachers at West Island School are tutors to a group of approximately 15 students within a particular year group

Requirements

The ideal candidate will have the following qualities:

• High proficiency in Chinese language and able to teach Chinese literature 

• Innovative and student centred pedagogy 

• Experienced in IB and IGCSE (or equivalents)

• A committed team player with the ability to contribute to the work of the department

• Willingness to embrace change 

• Sound understanding of how to teach students with different learning needs

• Good writing and speaking skills in English 

• Experience of teaching students from diverse cultural backgrounds is an advantage 

• Bachelor Degree in Education, or Bachelor Degree in the subject with PGCE (Postgraduate Certificate of Education), or equivalent

• Experience of teaching the subject across the full age and ability range up to and including Year 13, preferably IB Higher or equivalent. In particular, the teacher must be able to teach IB Chinese A to native Chinese learners, which requires a sound knowledge of Chinese literature.

• Previous full-time teaching experience

• Commitment to inclusion 

• Evidence of leading or contributing to an extra-curricular programme of events

• Pro-active, adaptable and passionate team player able to share responsibility for the development of curriculum and pedagogy.

Closing Date: 21 Apr 2017

For enquiries, please contact Chris Sammons at +852 2819 1962 or julia.zhu@wis.edu.hk. 

Applications must be submitted online through https://recruit.esf.edu.hk

Step 1: Go to the Registration tab and register. You will then receive an email with an activation link. 

Step 2: When your account has been activated, login to the system and click "Job Listing"

Step 3: Check the box next to the job(s) that you wish to apply for and click "Apply & Continue".

ESF is an Equal Opportunities Employer

Personal data provided by job applicants will be used strictly in accordance with the ESF's Personal Data Policy, a copy of which will be provided immediately upon request.

Aligned with the recommendations of the International Task Force on Child Protection, we hold ourselves to a high standard of effective recruiting practices with specific attention to child protection.

About West Island School - ESF

Strength from Diversity: A Better School, A Better World

Welcome from Hong Kong and from an outstanding International school comprising over 50 nationalities in the heart of Asia.

We are a happy, dynamic and hugely successful school established in the best traditions of the English Schools Foundation. The ESF exists to provide excellence in learning for Hong Kong based students of all abilities, nationalities, cultures and beliefs who would like to be educated through the medium of English.

Our school is housed in an exciting and innovative environment from which we can see the University, Hong Kong’s largest teaching hospital, the new cyber port and the busy shipping lanes which demonstrate Hong Kong’s key position on the global superhighway.

We have an outstanding record of high academic attainment through a careful crafting of curriculum to meet our students’ needs. We believe in using best practice from around the world, recruiting excellent practitioners from a variety of countries and using their knowledge and expertise. Our curriculum is taken loosely from the National Curriculum of the United Kingdom in our lower years, IGCSEs form our middle years academic programme and we offer three ESF diplomas to our upper school students with the option to pursue the International Baccalaureate or the Advanced or Intermediate Diplomas especially created for our student cohort.

Throughout the school we practice the belief that learning takes place within and without classroom walls. We believe in experiential learning, the value of creativity, action and service which are core to student experience throughout the school and the power of student leadership, choice and decision making through the empowerment of our “student voice”.

West Island School’s distinction lies in the pursuit of high achievement and attainment in learning through support, encouragement, praise and motivation. We believe that excellence in academic and co curricular learning experiences are of equal importance to provide a basis for a dynamic and enriching life. Central to our philosophy is that our school and those within it can influence the world of today and tomorrow. The quality of the relationships between staff and students and within the student body is excellent and draws upon a wide diversity of nationalities, cultures and beliefs which we believe enriches and strengthens our school. Above all else West Island school is a happy school where people are valued and where all individuals who are part of our community can fulfil their potential as learners: whether student, parent, teacher or para professional.

These claims were validated by the Hong Kong Education Department which after inspection categorized our school as an “Outstanding School”. We are the only international school in Hong Kong to have received this prestigious award.

The English Schools Foundation (ESF) was established in 1967 and is the largest education foundation in Asia offering a liberal education through the medium of the English language to children of school age. ESF now operates five secondary schools, nine primary schools, two “all-through” Private Independent Schools, five kindergartens and a school for students with special needs. Our 18,000 students are drawn from over 75 nationalities. Increasingly, our schools are also the destination of choice for local families.

Click here to learn more about ESF: Videos - ESF Communications 

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