UPPER ELEMENTARY CHINESE HOMEROOM TEACHER (2024-2025)
UPPER ELEMENTARY CHINESE HOMEROOM TEACHER (2024-2025)
Join the vibrant community at the Chinese American International School's Lower School as a lead Chinese Teacher for the academic year of 2024-2025. Become part of a team striving to be the world’s most innovative, inspiring, and influential Chinese English dual-language immersion school!
OPPORTUNITY
This position offers a unique opportunity for passionate Lower School educators to foster a joyful learning community that strikes a developmentally appropriate balance between deepening students’ academic skills and nurturing the curiosity and creativity of our learners. Consistent with its Strategic Vision 2020-2025, CAIS is committed to reimagining immersion to achieve greater student engagement and proficiency in Chinese and cultivate the cognitive, character and intercultural competencies that are the “CAIS Immersion Bonus.” We are seeking an Upper Elementary Chinese Homeroom Teacher who is eager to collaborate with our experienced faculty to continue implementing the best Chinese immersion pedagogy in the 2024-2025 school year.
OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE
The ideal candidate finds resonance with CAIS’s mission to Embrace Chinese, Become Our Best Selves, and Contribute to a Better World. As CAIS aims to empower inquisitive, creative, and inspired learners, we look for a candidate adept at student-centered pedagogy such as differentiation, inquiry-driven learning, use of assessment to inform teaching, and a dynamic application of best practices in Chinese language and literacy instruction. This candidate can foster a joyful learning community that strikes a developmentally appropriate balance between deepening students’ academic skills and nurturing the curiosity and creativity of our learners. Our new team member will collaborate with cross grade level Chinese/grade level Chinese and English partner teachers and enjoy a wealth of professional development opportunities. Within the framework of a strong curricular vision supported by Chinese and English program directors, the candidate will enjoy considerable autonomy in developing the classroom curriculum. CAIS offers a dynamic dual culture setting in which faculty are immersed in a culture of language learners. We look for a candidate who will embrace CAIS’s work to create an equitable, inclusive environment where all faculty, students, and families are supported in their individual identities. We welcome all applicants who aim to actively support and participate in our diverse and inclusive community.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES
Position responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
● Develop a positive intellectual, emotional, and social environment within the classroom and a class community in which all children feel valued and a sense of belonging.
● Demonstrate teaching excellence, a growth mindset, professionalism, and integrity.
● Support the educational program by challenging, supporting, and engaging students.
● Encompass a positive discipline approach in guiding student behavior.
● Developing engaging instructional strategies that are employed in the target language for each student
● Actively support and collaborate on school initiatives, such as events and committee work.
● Work with English partner teacher to develop and deliver integrated Social Studies and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion units.
● Work collaboratively and maintain standards of respect, courtesy, and mutual consideration with the school community, including students, staff, and parents.
● Communicate effectively, promptly, and proactively with families.
● Prepare assessments, grades, and progress reports according to school procedures.
● Attending Teacher Collaboration Time (TCT) meetings to plan and discuss pedagogies in all aspects with the Chinese Program Director and division meetings during the term of employment.
● Engage in school-wide cultural events and collaborate with cross division grade level teams
● Progress toward and eventual certification to administer and rate the ACTFL OPI and WPT assessment
● Working collaboratively with Chinese Language Support (CLS) teachers to monitor how students progress in Chinese and set individual academic goals
● Supervision on student field trips and occasionally chaperoning global programs to either China or Taiwan
● Other duties and responsibilities as determined by the Head of Lower School and the Chinese Program Director
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS
● Native or near native proficiency in Mandarin
● Experience teaching upper elementary Mandarin in an immersion program
● Minimum of bachelor's degree
● Ability to work with colleagues from different backgrounds and cultures
● Strong communications skills in English and Mandarin
TO APPLY
CAIS’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion is central to our mission. People of color and LGBTQIA
candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
Please apply through the link below: https://www.cais.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Upper-Elementary-Chinese-Homeroom-Teacher-2024-2025.pdf