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History Teacher

History Teacher

La Escuela de Lancaster

MEXICO

Job type:
Full Time, Fixed Term
Start date:
January 2015
Apply by:
10 October 2014

Job overview

Contract type: Full time
Contract term: Two years (renewable)

We are a bi-cultural school with a progressive educational philosophy, firmly committed to both Mexican and British educational systems and authorised by the IB, catering for 850 children from 3 to 18 years, mostly of Mexican nationality from professional and academic families.

We are looking for professional, enthusiastic, caring teachers with a genuine commitment to the education of the whole child, preferably with a minimum of two years' experience, who are willing to adapt to a different culture and work in an informal and friendly atmosphere alongside their Mexican counterparts and who see this opportunity as more than a paid holiday.

  • Classes are small and there is daily non-contact time for preparation and marking
  • Good local salaries
  • Return air fare
  • Shared furnished accommodation
  • Spanish classes are provided.

Please send CV and letter of application including

  • contact telephone/FAX number
  • names of two referees with e-mail or fax details.

to:

Alan Downie recruitment@lancaster.edu.mx

The letter should address specifically and fully your reasons for applying to the Lancaster School and for wanting to live in Mexico, and should include three words that best describe you as a person. Spanish is not a requirement.

For more information about the school and the posts available visit our website at http://www.lancaster.edu.mx and look under Employment

Opportunities.Apply by 10th October 2014

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About La Escuela de Lancaster

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  • La Escuela de Lancaster
  • Prolongation May 5 # 67, Colonia San Pedro Mártir, Tlalpan Delegation
  • México City
  • 14650
  • Mexico
+52 55 666 9796

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“The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and star saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities”

- Charles Dickens

The Lancaster School is a non-profit, private school founded in 1979 and is located in the south of Mexico City. From small beginnings, the school has grown in size and quality, while keeping a strong sense of its individualism and identity, in line with the School’s Mission and Philosophy. From the start, Lancaster has offered all our students integrated programs combining the Mexican and British education systems, taught through both English and Spanish.

Lancaster has a unique educational philosophy, based on our long-standing view that the real aim of education is to allow each person to embark on a life-long journey of self-discovery, so constructing our own identity. As such many of our school systems are focussed on supporting Lancaster students discover who they are and who they want to be. Mariana, one of our Lower 6 students, wrote about the school as part of an anthropology class assignment:

“The Lancaster School has a sense of freedom, diversity, respect and empathy. Lancaster allows you to see the world from a different perspective. They teach you how to be a human being and not a machine. Teachers don’t let you fall, but rather, hold your hand to guide you. They let you be free.”

Lancaster has a reputation for being an unconventional school and this is, in ways large and small, indeed true. This stems from our philosophy and the reality that we are, as our mission states, a community of learners. The central idea is that we are engaged in the development of our individual identity, applies to the adults in our community as much as our students. Each of us who takes up the challenge of working at Lancaster finds that we have to examine some of our most cherished beliefs about education. It is our aim that during their time at Lancaster all our staff grow as people, in ways planned and perhaps unplanned. As a community, we welcome diversity in all its forms and the complexity that goes with this.

To be happy and successful at Lancaster teachers need to be: passionate about what they teach, be open-minded, and be reflective. They also need to be adaptable and believe that learning is a process, not a task for our students and ourselves. If you find yourself agreeing with this we would be happy to talk to you about becoming a member of the Lancaster team.

For more detailed information about Lancaster please read our 'General Information for Candidates' document, which you can find at this site.

October 2022

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