Co-Teacher-Kindergarten & Playgroup

Hummingbird, the  international Kindergarten in Bangkok is actively seeking for the qualified Early Year  Co-Teachers. 

Take advantage of a lifetime opportunity to explore new culture and new environment while getting paid while doing what you have passion with. 

Ideally you will have explicit experience of EYFS application, yet we also welcome applications from those who have wider prep school experience with younger years. This is a major post within the school and you should expect to play a part in the school’s on-going development.

Job Description

In co-teaching, the pair are encouraged to co-plan and quickly incorporate the co-teaching strategies in their practice, providing more opportunities for the children to engage with both adults in the classroom. The mentor teacher remains engaged, using the strategies to support children learning and engagement. The co-teaching pair collaborates throughout the experience, with leadership in responsibility and decision-making shifting over time to the teacher candidate. Representative of positive discipline practitioner.  

Job Outputs

-Demonstrates a classroom culture that is fiercely positive and devotes the majority of time to instruction and demonstrate life skills.

-Instills a joy of learning in children and works to develop self-motivated and self- monitoring learners with the skills to set, monitor and meet self-set goals.

-Employs previous experience, best practices, and creativity to connect with children to ensure children achievement on interim.

-Establishes relationships with children’ families, cultivating learning environments for our children in and out of the classroom. 

-Representative of positive discipline practitioner. 

-Consistently models core values: endless possibilities.

Job Responsibilities

-Writes and delivers lesson plans which engage EFs skills to children that are engaging, and effective per children data.

-Implements classroom instruction that supports the social-emotional growth of children.

-Cultivates positive, collaborative relationships with families, and consistent communication with families.

-Assesses and evaluates children growth; action plans on class-wide, group-wide and individual basis in response to children data.

-Creates a classroom culture that develops in children core values and independent learning skills. 

-Participate in an annual staff orientation and training.

-Support playgroup class and after school clubs.

Competencies

-Outstanding classroom management that relies on positive, proactive reinforcement of high behavioural standards.

-Strong relationship builder with children, families, and other staff members.  

-Critical thinker with ability to analyse data and adjust plans to improve children achievement.

-Growth mindset and ability to accept and implement feedback.

-Ability to work collaboratively and without ego.

-Willingness to place children achievement as highest goal.

-Self-reflective, with a drive to continually grow as a teacher.

-Willingness to work hard and the flexibility to work through start-up challenges.

-Ability to quickly learn and implement technology innovations in the classroom.