Pay Band: Senior Teacher
Location: Napier Road, Singapore
Department : Regional F2F Academic Teachers
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract, 2 years
Closing Date: Thursday, 14 March 2024- 23:59 Singapore Time (GMT +8)
Role Purpose:
- To maintain and enhance professional development and academic quality in the teaching centre, through the management of in-house teacher development programmes and support.
- To promote and ensure quality teaching and effective learning of English.
- To provide learners with a rewarding and stimulating English language learning experience.
- To support the wider aims of British Council and its cultural relations mission.
Main accountabilities but not limited to the following:
Teacher Support
- Provide effective line management and support for staff including observations as per performance management guidelines, policies and procedures.
- Ensure that all teaching is delivered to standards set out in teachers Role Profiles, the Global Statement of Approach and British Council Global Teaching Standards.
- Proactively monitor the well-being of all line managees and provide an appropriate level of personal support.
- Provide academic support to teachers, parents, students.
- Assist in the recruitment, induction and onboarding of new teachers.
- Provide or set up mentoring programmes for new teachers/teachers teaching new life stages etc where appropriate.
Teaching Excellence
- Contribute to the design and implementation of an annual CPD programme which aligns with Regional Teaching Excellence Action Plan.
- Actively identify appropriate opportunities for staff learning and development.
- Act as a role model for good classroom practice by encouraging teachers to observe you or others teaching, doing demonstration lessons, leading teacher development sessions and conducting observations.
- Share thought leadership. Routinely monitor developments in ELT theory and practice and bring these to the attention of your teaching team through presentations, practical sessions, recommended reading.
- Represent the British Council at local ELT conferences, where appropriate.
- Proactively look for opportunities to highlight examples of best practice within centres and externally.
Product and service delivery and development
- Ensure frameworks to support teaching and learning (Statements of Approach, IP, Teaching Standards Framework, Product guidelines, TEAP) are understood and implemented by academic colleagues in their day to day work.
- Ensure other relevant colleagues (e.g. TOps, CS, TAs) are aware of frameworks to support teaching and learning.
- Ensure teachers communicate relevant policies to learners (e.g. statement of approach, behaviour policy, product information, EDI etc) during the course and support and advise other teams with communications (e.g CS and Marketing).
- Work with the Teaching Operations and Customer Services teams to deal with academic enquiries or complaints ensuring teachers are fully briefed and consulted where appropriate.
- Contribute as appropriate to cluster / regional product team.
- Contribute to the regional monitoring and evaluation of global products and related services to meet students’ needs.
- Organise the piloting of new courses and materials where relevant.
- Introduce new products to teaching staff and provide training and support for teachers.
- Ensure that SCM and Marketing teams receive necessary information about new and existing products.
- Develop products that are suitable for the Singaporean context as required.
- Ensure existing products maintain relevance to the requirements of the Singaporean educational context and reflect customer wants and needs.
Safeguarding, EDI and SEND
- Embed Safeguarding culture in teaching and learning through contributing to country safeguarding risk assessment and plan and implementing assigned actions.
- Act as Deputy / Safeguarding Focal point as appropriate to size of country operation and risk profile.
- Embed EDI through delivery of regional EDI objectives and workplans through local teaching teams (e.g. through Teaching Excellence Action Plan - TEAP).
- Act as or support country SEND champion / Country SENCO and work with Teaching Operations, CS and other colleagues as appropriate to ensure teaching centre inclusion policy is effectively embedded in the centre.
Role specific knowledge and experience:
Essential
- 2 years post-diploma i.e. DELTA/Trinity Diploma TESOL experience.
- Extensive knowledge and experience of management and delivery of teacher training.
- Experience of line managing/ coordinating teaching teams.
- Experience in teaching relevant age groups:Early Years aged 2-5 (800+ hours).
Primary aged 6 to 10 (800+ hours).
Lower Secondary aged 11 to 14 (400+ hours).
Upper Secondary aged 15 to 17 (400+ hours).
Adults General English 18+ (400+ hours).
Desirable
- Knowledge of the Singaporean educational context and requirements of the Ministry of Education for Lower Primary age students.
Education
Essential
- Undergraduate Degree.
- Cambridge CELTA/Trinity Certificate TESOL.
- Cambridge DELTA/Trinity Diploma TESOL.
- Relevant Young Learner / Early Years qualification.
Desirable
- Relevant masters/post graduate qualification.
Requirements:
- Candidates must have the right to live and work in the country in which the role is based. Visa will be arranged for candidates outside Singapore.
- Full Mastery of English across 4 skills, equivalent to CEFR C2 (IELTS Academic Paper Band 8/9 in each of the 4 sections).
- Young Learner Senior Teachers in Singapore have a Wednesday to Sunday working week with Monday and Tuesday as days off. The YL operation in Singapore has a fixed leave policy.
- The post holder is required to flexibly support holiday programmes and open days.
