Primary School Teacher of Learning Support
UWC South East Asia, East Campus
Singapore
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- August 2025
- Apply by:
- 18 October 2024
Job overview
UWCSEA has a vacancy at its East Campus for Primary School Teacher of Learning Support for students ages between 4 to 11 years to start in August 2025.
Main Responsibilities
To provide a happy, stimulating, safe learning environment in which all children can thrive and achieve their very best.
Teaching
- Work with identified students delivering tiered support in the areas of Literacy, Mathematics, executive functioning, and self-regulation. Support is provided within the classroom environment and other settings where necessary with the aim of helping students achieve their full potential and thrive in the five elements of UWCSEA’s Learning Programme.
- Support children in developing positive relationships and promote children’s well-being and resilience.
Collaboration and Consultative Support
- Collaborate with teachers to plan and implement differentiated learning engagements based on student needs and progress. Co-plan with grade level teachers to embed effective instructional supports throughout the learning programme.
- Consult pro-actively with teachers individually and in meetings to suggest strategies, accommodations, interventions, and goals to support student learning.
- Develop and maintain positive working relationships with other practitioners throughout the Primary School.
Assessment
- Administer and interpret standardised assessments with the aim of identifying and prioritising student support needs.
- Gather and use formative and summative assessment data from multiple sources to monitor student progress, well-being and behaviour.
- Assist with standardised assessments for student applicants to UWCSEA who may have Learning Support needs as part of the Admissions process.
- Contribute to assessment of and for student learning, and to meetings where children’s needs are discussed.
Documentation
- Write student learning plans to communicate student learning goals and progress. Write reports on student progress for meetings and end of year reporting to parents.
- Update and maintain student records using our documentation systems.
- Maintain confidentiality at all times in respect of individual/family circumstances
- Contribute to department handbooks, policies as and when required.
Partnerships and Communication
- Communicate effectively with students and ensure that their learning is prioritised and supported fully and appropriately.
- Communicate effectively with parents.
- Provide training for Teaching Assistants to support students with specific interventions.
- Collaborate with Teaching Assistants to plan and deliver support to students across the grade.
- Ensure the smooth transition of students on the learning support register from Infants to Juniors and from Junior School to Middle School.
General
- Teachers are expected to participate in the five key elements of a UWCSEA education: Academics; Activities; Outdoor Education; Personal and Social Education and Service
- Academic expectations include enthusiastic participation in Professional Learning, both that which is mandated by the College and that which is identified by the individual.
- On average the College expects a yearly contribution of two sessions per week in each season to Activities and/or Service
- The College expects that teachers will participate enthusiastically in the curricular Outdoor Education experiences which are relevant to their students and will also occasionally volunteer for holiday Outdoor Education trips
- A commitment to diversity and inclusion is essential alongside a willingness to adapt and develop pedagogy to meet the needs of our learners
Expectations and Standards
- Follow the UWCSEA Professional Code of Conduct and Safeguarding Code of Conduct.
Teach in line with the UWCSEA Teacher Standards
Person Specifications
Qualifications
- A good degree in a closely related discipline and a recognized teaching qualification or certification are essential
- A minimum of 3 - 5 years’ teaching experience preferably in international schools (4-11 year olds)
Experience
- Qualifications specific to learning support would be an advantage.
- Extensive Primary classroom teaching and learning support experience.
- A proven track record of working with students with additional learning needs and of delivering individualised instruction.
- Applicants should have the willingness to be flexible in teaching across the primary age range.
- Learning Support in the Primary focuses on both the personal, social development of the child as well as on academic skill development. The ability to provide intervention and support across learning areas would be an advantage.
- The ability to work collaboratively as part of a K-5 department and whole school Student Support Services team.
- The ability to engage with students, engender enthusiasm and develop positive relationships with parents and with classroom teachers.
The following would be an advantage:
- Training and experience supporting students with a variety of learning needs
- Knowledge and experience teaching reading and abreast with current research
- Knowledge and experience of international curricula, their delivery and assessment
- Experience with a child centred, agentic learning philosophy
- Experience teaching students who are English Language Learners
Timeline
We have multiple stages in our recruitment process; however, we reserve the right to choose which stages to include in different recruitment roles.
Estimated Timeline:
- Online one way interview (Spark Hire) in the week beginning 21 October 2024
- Online Conversations week beginning in the week beginning 4 November 2024
- Final Interview week in the week beginning 18 November 2024
We aim to communicate with all candidates regarding whether they have been moved to the next stage or not.
Applications
Apply via our job portal by Friday, 18 October 2024 23:59pm Singapore Time
The UWC Mission is to make education a force to unite people, nations and culture for peace and a sustainable future. We are committed to creating a community in which all members feel safe and secure, and know that their authentic selves and individual differences are accepted with respect and care.
About UWC South East Asia, East Campus
About UWCSEA and the UWC movement
The pursuit of the UWC mission to unite people nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future is at the heart of the College. As the largest of the 17 UWC schools and colleges worldwide, UWCSEA in Singapore has over 5,600 day and boarding students enrolled across two campuses, aged 4 to 18 years. Our concept-based K-12 curriculum leads to the IB Diploma in the final two years of schooling.
Our vision is to be a leader in international education, with a worldwide reputation for providing a challenging, holistic values-based education with an emphasis upon academic achievement, service to others, teamwork and leadership.
In the pursuit of this vision, we provides teachers with a dynamic and challenging a professional life based upon our values. Our staff are innovative, experienced and deeply committed to student learning. The learning at UWCSEA extends throughout the College community as our staff are active and collaborative learners themselves.
UWCSEA guiding statements
We are a mission-driven organisation with a strong commitment to the educational principles of Kurt Hahn, our founder, and a passionate belief in the importance of education as a force for good in the world.
We believe that learning is a life-long process in which learners engage with and reflect upon information and experiences to construct new or modify existing understanding as well as develop and apply skills and qualities.
This definition of learning and our learning principles guide our educational practice across all five elements of the UWCSEA learning programme. Our commitment to a holistic education results in the provision of an extensive range of experiential and service-based programmes across five elements of this learning programmes: academics, activities, outdoor education, personal and social education and service.
UWCSEA's learning programme and curriculum
Our UWCSEA learning programme is based around five interlinking elements. The rigorous academics, combined with a unique outdoor education programme, extensive activities and meaningful service, are underpinned by a supportive pastoral care programme. Students participate in all five elements of the programme throughout their time at the College, and the elements will have varying importance at different times in their journey through UWCSEA.
The learning programme delivers UWCSEA's unique, concept-based curriculum which has been articulated for each element of the learning programme across K-12. This means that from K1 to Grade 12, each curriculum area (or subject) has standards, which identify key concepts that underpin that curriculum area. These standards are applied at all grade levels and build naturally in complexity through the Infant, Junior, Middle and High Schools, culminating in the IB Diploma in Grades 11 and 12.
In turn, each standard has conceptual understandings that describe what a student should understand as a result of studying a particular content area. They are statements of understanding that are appropriate to a student’s developmental stage, and build towards the standard.
Benchmarks are then attached to each conceptual understanding. The benchmarks describe what a student should know, understand or be able to do at each stage of their learning in each subject. These benchmarks are what our teachers assess to ensure that students are reaching the conceptual understanding and are working towards the standards.
In the High School, the standards, conceptual understandings and benchmarks specifically take into account the requirements of external examining bodies that set the (I)GCSE and IB Diploma examinations that students sit at the end of Grade 10 and Grade 12.
Educating for a better world
The academic curriculum aims to develop the specific conceptual understandings necessary to build Peace and a Sustainable Future. These are derived from UNESCO’s Education for Sustainable Development Goals for and through a collaboration with our educational partners the Ellen Macarthur Foundation. Along with the skills and qualities of our Learner Profile many of these concepts are reinforced through linkages to the other four elements of our Leaning Programme. You can find out more here.
Results
UWCSEA has outstanding IB Diploma results. In May 2019, our cohort of 561 students achieved an average IB Diploma score of 36.6—the worldwide average was 29.8 (in 2018). Each year a number of our students are admitted to highly selective universities in the US, the UK and many other countries. For further information please see the results section of our website.
Staff and structure
Each campus has its own Campus Leadership team and academic and administrative staff to support the delivery of UWCSEA’s world-class education. Each campus is divided into Schools (Primary, Middle and High). Each School is managed by a Principal, assisted by Vice Principals and Heads of Grade or Department.
The College President oversees both campuses, supported by senior educational leadership on each campus. The campuses have the same Board of Governors.
The Dover Campus has 3,000 day and boarding students (K-12) and employs 300 teaching and 200 support staff. The East Campus has 2,550 day and boarding students (K-12) and employs 240 teaching staff and 160 support staff.
The boarding houses on both campuses are supported by live-in teaching staff and offer a unique opportunity for a city-based residential boarding programme to students aged 14-18 years - 192 students on Dover and 160 students on East.
Our expectations
We welcome applications from educators who share our vision and values, and are willing to contribute to UWCSEA's unique learning community and to the UWC mission.
Teachers are expected to contribute wholeheartedly to the provision of all elements of this programme both inside and outside the formal academic curriculum. All teachers run activities or service projects in addition to their teaching, which can include supporting the College's range of sporting, dramatic and musical performances, as well as providing support for the extensive expeditions programme.
Safeguarding children
UWCSEA is committed to safeguarding our students and protecting them from harm. In keeping with the expectation that all staff and volunteers share this commitment, those applying for a position at the College must be willing to undergo employment background checks and screening appropriate to the post.
Professional life and development opportunities
UWCSEA aims to provide an exceptional professional experience to its teachers and to be an Employer of Choice. The UWCSEA benefits package includes a competitive salary, contribution towards housing, medical insurance, a service gratuity (set at 20 percent of gross salary at the end of each year), recruitment and repatriation flights and biennial leave passages.
We offer a wide range of professional development opportunities. Teachers are expected to commit to three professional development days scheduled each year, and are provided many additional opportunities for professional learning through our the extensive Professional Development Programme.
We have a highly experienced teaching faculty who provide excellent opportunities for peer-to-peer learning. Among the full-time teaching staff, we have large numbers of IB PYP Trainers, IB MYP workshop leaders, IB DP workshop leaders and IB DP Examiners or Moderators, allowing us to run in-house workshops and seminars.
Teachers attend workshops or seminars in the region, and at the College’s Centre for Professional Learning. This in-house Centre allows UWCSEA teachers to attend a range of educational conferences and other events that draw teachers from across the region, providing extensive opportunities for peer learning and networking. In the past, external experts who have visited to provide workshops or seminars on campus include Bambi Betts, Kath Murdoch, Dylan Wiliam, Lyn Sharratt and Sarah White.
Our teachers also regularly act as lecturers, seminar leaders and facilitators at educational conferences and workshops run by organisations such as EARCOS and ECIS.
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