Kindergarten Librarian
Dipont Huayao Collegiate School Kunshan
Jiangsu
- Expiring soon
- Salary:
- Competitive salary
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Apply by:
- 21 May 2024
Job overview
Are you an early years’ educator who believes in guiding children to see how their thoughts, theories and views can make sense of and shape their world? Dipont Huayao Collegiate School Kunshan is seeking a Kindergarten Librarian to join its diverse, enthusiastic and highly supportive community of teachers, working in a beautifully appointed and state of the art campus.
Background
The kindergarten at Huayao Collegiate is an innovative hub of outstanding early childhood practice for children aged 2 to 6. It is grounded in evidence-based theories of education using an international curriculum framework fusing Chinese and Western pedagogical approaches.
Salary and benefits
- Highly competitive salary levels
- High quality housing
- Annual return airfare for employee and dependents
- Medical insurance for employee and dependents
- Full tuition support for employees with school-age children
About the Program
Grounded in Research
Our research-based program is underpinned by local and internationally renowned theories of education, past and present and draws from the curriculum frameworks of China, England and Australia. This robust approach ensures our scholars are equipped with the tools to embrace an ever-changing world with vigor. We enact the curriculum frameworks through in-depth modes of study. This innovative approach ensures learning is targeted, authentic and responsive to scholars needs, thoughts and theories.
Relationship Building
Our program is arranged so that children will develop a greater sensitivity to each other as they navigate the complexities of relationship building through a supported social model of learning. This model directly asks the question: “How can the inevitable challenges that arise when people come together in groups serve as an opportunity for learning rather than a source of contention?” Working in such a way allows for children to practice self-regulation, fairness and compassion.
Language and Literacy
Listening and extending children’s thoughts and theories is a hallmark of our program. For children, being able to express their ideas is inextricably linked to their sense of self. This strong focus on language acquisition allows us to support children to communicate effectively in two languages. However, developing strong communication skills goes beyond traditional ideas of language and literacy, which we have expanded to include, emotional, cultural and critical literacy.
Intellectual Rigor
Setting the environment up to facilitate problem-solving allows us to harness children’s natural curiosity and supports them to develop an intellectual response to problems. We do this by showing scholars how they can overcome problems by thinking and regulating their thoughts and behavior. Developing skills such as predicting, hypothesizing and investigating, and encouraging “why-type” questions, allows us to create the ideal learning platform for an intellectually challenging program.
Teachers
A strong sense of culture and place enables our students to feel connected to their home, community and the wider world. Our children do not have to sacrifice their first language and culture in order to acquire another. In embracing the full marriage of eastern and western cultures and educational beliefs, we seek to ensure that international mindedness runs indelibly through the DNA of our own cultural identity.
Our Preschool classrooms are led by a team of Chinese and Expat teachers who teach in both Chinese and English. Our teachers are co-leaders, co-contributors and equal partners. Encouraged by the blurring of cultural mores, our co-teaching model allows children to acquire both languages in an authentic way. Each teaching partnership seeks to motivate children into active learners capable of meaningful thought and communication in both English and Chinese.
About you
- Formal teaching qualification
- Experience in early years or lower primary education
- Interest in progressive early education and a growth mindset
- Ability to work collaboratively and contribute to the development of an outstanding school
Early application preferred. To submit an application, please click here.
For further information, please contact emily.wang@dipont.com
School website: https://www.dipont-hc.com/
*We are committed to a thorough and complete check of the credentials of all those employed to work with children in our organization.
About Dipont Huayao Collegiate School Kunshan
- Dipont Huayao Collegiate School Kunshan
- Junction of Jingwang Road and, Huanhuatang Road, Kunshan Economic and, Technological Development Zone
- Suzhou, Jiangsu
- China
This is Dipont’s third independent school project, following the successful establishment of RDFZ King’s College School Hangzhou and Nanwai King’s College School Wuxi. The campus in Kunshan is nearing completion and, at capacity, will provide an outstanding learning environment for 2,800 scholars and feature state-of-the-art laboratories, a performing arts center with an 800 seat theater and first-class sports complexes.
The school is enrolling students for September 2020 and opening up a range of teaching positions from preschool to 10th grade. By 2022, the school will grow into a full upper school through 12th grade, offering AP classes and advanced specialized electives in all subject areas over the following two years.
The campus consists of:
• A preschool for children aged 2 to 6
• An elementary school for grades 1 to 5
• A middle school for grades 6 to 8
• An upper school for grades 9 to 12
This is a partnership project between Dipont Education Management Group and The No.2 High School Affiliated to East China Normal University (commonly referred to in Chinese as Huaer).
Dipont Education is a highly successful international education management company at the forefront in developing international programmes in China. Over 6,500 students currently study A Level, IBDP or AP programmes in 26 partner schools. Please see http://www.dipont.com for more information.
East China Normal University is known as the premier teacher training university in China, and its affiliated high school has a long-established reputation for its progressive approach to the development of teaching and learning.
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