Middle School Humanities Teacher at The International School of Kenya

Responsibilities:

Every educator’s primary responsibility is to ensure student-learning success and provide for the individual learning needs of each student. Some specific responsibilities include:

• Implement a program of study that adheres to the school curriculum as adopted by the Board of Directors
• Collaborate with your team to design learning that is robust and responsive, and reflects our Values
• Promote a positive learning environment
• Engage in ongoing professional learning
• Differentiate and personalize for diverse learners
• Implement our Strategic Focus Areas (Learning Design, Inclusion, Wellbeing)
• Be an engaged member of the community, including mentoring/coaching extracurricular learning
• outside the school day
• Fulfill supervision duties as assigned, including some evening and weekend events (as well as
• off-campus trips)
• Communicate regularly with families (e.g. conferences, reports)
• Protect the safety and well-being of children
• Perform other duties that may be reasonably assigned by the administration.
• Actively engage in implementing a Humanities curriculum that integrates Social Studies and English
• Language Arts along a conceptual framework

Education/Experience

• University Bachelor's degree, or equivalent (an advanced degree in Education is desirable)
• Teacher certification from an accredited university/college
• Degree/certification should be relevant to the teaching position
• Minimum 2 years relevant teaching experience
• Solid understanding of pedagogy and instructional approaches, curriculum design, and assessment aligned with our mission, vision and educational philosophy.
• Experience with Common Core State Standards for ELA and C3 Framework for social studies