Our employment package is excellent , with very competitive salaries , housing , flights , insurance and other benefits. We aim to be exemplary employers and have had very low teacher turnover and Staff satisfaction over 80% since we opened

Full Time, Fixed Term

1/8/2025

31 December 2024

The College is located in the Hongqiao district of Tianjin and was completed in May 2011. The architecture of the main teaching building and the adjoining Early Years building is inspired by Wellington College in the UK. The theatre in the College is unique because of its seating capacity of over 400 people and supporting rooms for productions and concerts. The newly renovated library emphasizes the enjoyment of studying. The College has state-of-the-art sports facilities, including a Sports Hall, indoor swimming pool, tennis and basketball courts, and an astroturf football/rugby pitch. Wellington College International Tianjin currently comprises of three schools. Together they serve approximately 600 K-12 pupils from 20 countries.


JOB TITLE
Junior School Classroom Teacher
DEPARTMENT
Junior School Department
LOCATION
Tianjin
SUPERVISOR
Head of Junior School


OBJECTIVES

• Have high expectations of children and a commitment to ensuring that they can achieve their full educational potential and to establishing fair, respectful, trusting, supportive and constructive relationships with them.
• Demonstrate the values, attributes and behaviors you expect from children.
• Be aware of the professional duties of teachers and the statutory framework within which they work.
• Be aware of the policies and practices of the school and share collective responsibility for their implementation.
• Communicate effectively with children, young people, colleagues, parents and careers.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assess the learning of those you teach and set challenging learning objectives.
• Plan and teach lessons and sequences of lessons that are well organised, demonstrating secure subject knowledge relevant to curricula across the age and ability range for which you are trained.
• Use a range of teaching strategies and resources including e-learning.
• Provide opportunities for learners to develop their literacy, numeracy and ICT skills
• Provide homework to sustain learner’s progress and consolidate their learning.
• Make effective use of a range of assessment, monitoring and recording strategies.
• Provide daily, accurate and constructive feedback on learner’s attainment, progress and areas for development.
• Support and guide learners to reflect on their learning, identify progress they have made and identify their emerging learning needs.
• Establish a purposeful and safe learning environment conductive to learning and identify opportunities for learners to learn in and out of school contexts.
• Establish a clear framework for classroom discipline to manage learners’ behaviour constructively and promote their self-control and independence.
• Work as a team member and identify opportunities for working with colleagues, sharing the development of effective practice with them.
• Ensure colleagues (e.g. Teaching Assistants) working with you, are appropriately involved in supporting learning and understand the roles they are expected to fulfil.
• Advising and co-operating with staff on the preparation and delivery of courses of study, teaching materials and programmes, methods of teaching and assessments and pastoral arrangements.
• Participating in arrangements for further training and professional development, including undertaking personal training and professional development identified through performance management.
• Safeguarding children’s Health and Safety in school and on authorized school activities elsewhere.
• Other responsible duties as directed by the Head of Juniors.

BASIC QUALIFICATION
Education: Bachelor’s degree and professional teaching qualification is essential
Major: Primary Teaching or related Education Major
Language: English
Working experience: 2 years related working experience or above


EXPERTISE

• Have a range of teaching, learning and behaviour management strategies and know how to use and adapt them, including how to personalise learning and provide opportunities for all learners to achieve their potential.
• Know the assessment requirements and arrangements for the subjects/curriculum areas they are trained to teach, including those relating to public examinations and qualifications.
• Be informed of a range of approaches to assessment, including the importance of formative assessment.
• To follow assessment guidance set out in the whole school assessment policy.
• Know how to use local and national statistical information to evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching, to monitor the progress of those they teach and to raise levels of attainment.
• Have a secure knowledge and understanding of curriculum areas to enable you to teach effectively across the age and ability range for which you are trained to teach.
• Know and understand the relevant statutory and non-statutory curricula frameworks, including those provided through the National Strategies, for your curriculum areas (all taught areas), and other relevant initiatives across the age and ability range for which you are trained to teach.
• Know how to use skills in literacy, numeracy and ICT to support your teaching and wider professional activities e.g. planning and assessment.
• Understand how children develop and that the progress and well-being of learners are affected by a range of developmental, social, religious, ethnic, cultural and linguistic influences.
• Know how to make effective personalised provision for the children you teach including those for who English is an additional language.
• Know and understand the roles of colleagues with specific responsibilities, including those with responsibilities for learners with SEN and disabilities and other individual learning needs.
• Be aware of current legal requirements and policy concerning the wellbeing of children.

PREFERRED APTITUDES

• Passionate about inclusive education and committed to supporting the needs of all learners.
• Experience of inquiry-based learning.
• Empathetic and patient, with a positive and proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Highly organised with excellent time management skills.
• Culturally sensitive and able to work effectively in an international environment.
• Capability in seamlessly integrating 21st-century technology into classroom settings to enhance the learning experience.
• A reflective practitioner.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

As an employer of choice, Wellington College China is committed to making professional learning and personal development central to its ethos and approach. WCC fully recognises its responsibilities for safeguarding children. Our safeguarding policy applies to all staff, governors and volunteers working in the Group.

Wellington College International Tianjin is the first international partner school of the highly prestigious Wellington College in Berkshire, England. The school is a vibrant and popular co-educational school offering a top-class British education for pupils aged 2-18 years. The strength and breadth of the partnership with Wellington College in England are almost unique among British schools.
Besides the royal foundation and shared heritage, Wellington College International Tianjin has teachers with extensive Wellington College UK experience, enjoys pupil and staff exchanges, collaboration between subjects and classes, as well as embedding vital elements of the core values (respect, integrity, courage, responsibility and kindness), shared Wellington identity and commitment to a wellbeing programme. These shared parts of our DNA mean that pupils in Wellington grow into hard-working, resilient young men and women capable of leading full and active roles in their lives and communities. They understand the meaning of service to others and lead their lives rooted in the shared values that helped to shape their childhoods. As even a casual observer at any of our annual year 13 graduation ceremonies can see, the pupils that emerge from the school at 18 years of age are prepared to face the wider world with quiet self-confidence, disarming humility and a steely determination to forge their place in the world.
Our Class of 2024 graduates have had an exceptional year, with 32% of graduates receiving offers from G5 super-elite universities. Nearly 40% secured places at universities ranked within the top 20 by QS World Rankings, with 50% reaching the top 50. Pupils are holding offers from The University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, London School of Economics and Political Science, University College London, King’s College London, The University of Edinburgh, The University of Manchester, and the University of the Arts London (QS arts rankings #1 in the world), The Bartlett School of Architecture, Seoul National University (Medicine major), University of California Los Angeles, New York University, University of Toronto, The University of Sydney and The University of New South Wales.
We have in the past 5 years received the HR Asia's 'Best Companies to Work for in Asia' Award and rank consistently within the top 10 schools in China through the Hurun Report and Kinglead for innovation, teaching and leadership.