Job Description
Key Accountabilities
- Develop a life-long love and appreciation for learning in early years.
- Instruct learners in a classroom setting according to the curriculum and learning domains.
- Perform formative and summative assessments and contribute to the development of assessment strategies and arrangements for the key learning areas.
- Work collaboratively with all the stakeholders in the development and enhancement of curriculum, pedagogy, and teaching and learning and over all service delivery.
- Works in partnership with parents to enhance the learner’s potential
- Establish and ensure positive and safe physical and emotional climate in classroom and at the centre.
- Ensure child development, safety, and wellness by contributing to and following all the policies, procedures and guidelines.
- Brings in new insights into teaching & improves the learning process
- Carry out any other duties as assigned by the Preschool Principal/the Head of School/centre.
- Engage in and support the organization of centre events.
- Demonstrates creativity, initiative and resourcefulness
- Interacting with parents to discuss child’s progress and other needs during PTCs and on need basis.
- Ensure mandatory participation in skill enhancement, workshops and trainings in line with global practices.
- Works effectively both as a team member and independently.
Additional Responsibilities
- Handle parent communication on an ongoing basis wrt learning and care of the child
- Address escalations along with the CD wrt any incident happened in the class
- Collaborate and support the Academic Counsellors and marketing team on conducting any BTL or Parent interaction during the admission/closing the lead stage.
- Work closely with the curriculum coordinator and centre team for events, curriculum planning and other curriculum activities pertaining to the respective program
Qualifications and experience required:
- Demonstrated knowledge of current best practices in pedagogy and innovation. Successful teaching experience. Recent training and/or experience in the current curriculum. Experience as a Teacher in early years education.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English language proficiency)
- Ability to communicate effectively with students, parents, teachers and others.
- Relevant university credentials in an academic field. Secondary license or certification for teaching the subject would be an added plus.
- Work experience with other cultures and nationalities. Ability to differentiate instruction for all learners.
- Ability to participate in and establish collaborative structures. Proven ability to develop successful academic programs.
- Willingness to moderate assignments at all levels to ensure collective understanding of achievement. Willingness to reinforce mission and core values of the organisation.
- Ability to use learning data to explore and improve teaching and learning practices. Ability to engage students in learning activities using a variety of current technologies and online platforms.
Individual Responsibilities
- Respect the right and dignity of every team member.
- Be social and humane, rationale and democratic in all professional conversations and interactions
- Strive to soothe any concern, apprehension, expectation mismatch brewing up immediately.
- Create undiluted fun moments sensitively never blurring the lines of professional decorum. Lead by example, help, support wherever required as everyone has a bad day and a situation unique to each.
- Communicate timely with your manager on anything that requires immediate attention.
- Enthusiastic, takes Initiative and displays ownership
- Ability to manage time, resources and stress effectively
- Serve as a role model to children and staff in terms of punctuality, respect, and responsibility
Additional Skills
- Basic Computer skills including MS Office suite of MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint