Lower School Maternity Leave Teacher (August-November)

Join the vibrant community at the Chinese American International School’s 150 Oak campus as a member of our Lower School faculty teaching in English. Become part of a team striving to be the world’s most innovative, inspiring, and influential Chinese English dual-language immersion school.

Depending on candidate interest and availability, the school would be open to considering the candidate as a teaching associate for the rest of the school year once the maternity leave is finished.

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE

The ideal candidate finds resonance with CAIS’s mission to Embrace Chinese, Become your Best Self, and Create your Place in the World.  As CAIS aims to empower independent, effective, and inspired learners, we look for a candidate adept at student-centered pedagogy such as differentiation, use of assessment to inform teaching, and Workshop-based instruction. Our new team member will collaborate with grade level Chinese and English partner teachers. The candidate will enter an environment that values social emotional learning alongside academic challenge.

CAIS offers a dynamic dual culture setting, in which faculty are immersed in a culture of language learners. We look for a candidate who will embrace and participate in CAIS’s work to create an equitable, inclusive environment where all faculty, students, and families are supported in their individual identities.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

Position responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

·        Demonstrate teaching excellence, a growth mindset, professionalism, and integrity.

·        Support the educational program by challenging, supporting, and engaging students.

·        Successfully teach all assigned classes in accordance with grade appropriate best practices.

·        Encompass a positive discipline approach in guiding student behavior.

·        Develop a positive intellectual, emotional, and social environment within the classroom and a class community in which all children feel valued and a sense of belonging.

·        Work collaboratively and maintain standards of respect, courtesy, and mutual consideration with the school community, including students, staff, and parents.

·        Communicate effectively, promptly, and proactively with families.

·        Use Reading and Writing Workshop models to inform English Language Arts classroom instruction and assessments.

·        Work with Chinese partner teacher to develop and deliver integrated Social Studies and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion units.

·        Prepare and deliver Math lessons, based on grade-level skills, with a focus on mathematical thinking and communication, visual and hands-on strategies, vocabulary, and shared inquiry.

·        Implement and integrate technology into curriculum.

·        Attend faculty and division meetings including required meetings/events before the beginning of the school year and during the term of employment.