SeekTeachers is seeking for an experience PYP Coordinator to join our client in Singapore. The position is for ASAP/January 2017 start.
Our client is a private international school established about 10 years ago offering an unique bilingual curriculum to students from Kindergarten to Grade 12. The school offers a bilingual program (English and Chinese) that integrates Eastern and Western values, through the International Baccalaureate (IB) philosophy.
To apply, you must have the following:
- Bachelor degree or above in Primary Education
- Minimum of 5 years teaching experience
- Must be IBPYP trained
- Minimum 2 years Coordinator experience
- Native English speaker
- International/ESL experience preferred
- Flexible to adapt into new culture
The school is a growing school with approximately 400 students at present and a staff strength of 65 from 15 countries. To bring out the best in the students, the school offers an excellent learning spaces for work and play. All the classrooms are equipped with IT facilities to enhance the learning experience for students across all ages. The school also offers attractive outdoor facilities including football field, swimming pool, Olympics-sized track and indoor sports hall.
Job descriptions:
- Ensure the development of an action plan and, advise and support the formulation of the school’s strategic development plan
- Maintain the archive of PYP records from one year to the next, including the exhibition
- Ensure that the document entitled General regulations: Primary Years Programme is supplied to parents/guardians
- Ensure that the document entitled Rules for IB World Schools: Primary Years Programme I shared with relevant staff
Professional development
- Ensure that staff members are made aware of professional development opportunities
- Ensure PYP teaching staff receive ongoing training in the delivery of the programme
- Make recommendations regarding professional development opportunities on and off campus
- Keep a record of workshop attendance and school visits to ensure equality of opportunity to identify ongoing needs, and to complete authorization and programme evaluation forms
- Provide appropriate guidance and support are given to staff to implement the programme (for example, developing a programme of inquiry, use of the PYP planner, use of an appropriate diversity of assessment strategies, planning the exhibition)
- Assist teams or individuals in developing and documenting units of inquiry and individual student inquiries
- Support the teachers responsible for, and the students involved in, the PYP exhibition in the final year of the programme
- Ensure that all PYP teachers are issued with passwords to access the OCCResource management
Contact Win now on
+44 (0) 203 455 0195 or email me at
win@SeekTeachers.com for any further information.
