Teacher of Makerspace or ICT Teacher

Job Overview:

Renaissance International School Saigon is looking for highly educated and experienced PYP teachers, with a passion for student agency and collaboration. Successful candidates will be open-minded, reflective and positive contributors to our school community.

Responsibilities and Duties Inside the Classroom:

Renaissance teachers are responsible for:

• Having a working knowledge of the UK National curriculum and the PYP/MYP scope and sequence documentation
• Planning and documenting unit plans and weekly learning experiences that are aligned to the IB philosophy and documented using Toddle software
• Regular collaboration with year group partners, specialist teachers, and the PYP Coordinator
• Delivering authentic and meaningful learning experiences that are inquiry-based and designed to allow students to create, make, innovate, build and design
• Developing a robotics programme beginning in Year 1 with simple block coding of BeeBots and progressing through Year 6 with building and coding Lego robots
• Gathering ongoing assessment feedback through the use of diagnostic, formative and summative assessment tools and using that feedback to design future learning experiences
• Communicating weekly with parents through classroom updates, using Toddle software
• A positive approach to behaviour management, with a focus on restorative conversations and activities
• 6 hours of timetabled time working within and collaborating with the MYP design department.

Responsibilities and Duties Outside the Classroom:

Renaissance teachers are responsible for:

• 3 x 30-minute playtime or lunchtime supervision duties
• 2 x 45-minute extra-curricular activities (these take place during the school day)
• Always Promoting the school positively (including meetings with professional bodies, individuals and on social network sites).
• Working with fellow colleagues in a spirit of collaboration to maintain and enhance a pleasant professional working environment.
• Substituting for absent colleagues when necessary.
• Attending punctually on all occasions agreed in the contract and as reasonably requested by the Head of Primary and Early Years
• Participating in after/out of school events such as: staff team briefing, staff team meetings, parents’ evenings, residential/educational visits, as may be reasonably requested.
• Offering full support to and actively participating in the school’s extra-curricular activity programme.
• Undertaking any other reasonable tasks as instructed by the Head of School after appropriate consultation.

Qualifications:

The Ideal Candidate:

• Has extensive PYP teaching experience.
• Has experience documenting planning using Toddle software.
• Is a collaborator and positive driver for change
• Is reflective, open-minded and flexible
• Holds certificates for Making the PYP Happen, Concept-Based Learning and Assessment
• Has worked in a Round Square school

Required Qualifications:

• A minimum of 3 years teaching experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Education
• An internationally recognized Teacher Certification
• A degree relevant to the transdisciplinary subjects offered within the Primary school
• Native English Speaker

 Note: All teachers at Renaissance are required to provide criminal background checks from their home country and other countries of employ to prove that they meet the Child Protection requirements of the school.