Drama and Theatre Teacher

Drama and Theatre Teacher

ACS International Schools is looking for an experienced Theatre and Drama Teacher to join the team at ACS Cobham. This role will work as part of the Performing Arts team, teaching Drama and Theatre to high school students with varying levels of skills and ability.

ACS has fantastic developments on campus, including the EJ Poularas Performing Arts Centre with two drama studios, performance spaces and a 500+ seat auditorium complete with fly-tower.

Knowledge, skills, and experience required:

• Educated to bachelor’s degree (or international equivalent) minimum – related subjects Teaching qualification Experience teaching high school Drama Theatre is essential (IB experience is desired but not essential) Strong IT skills Experience teaching in an international school preferred Demonstrates consistently high standards of personal and professional conduct Fluent in English both verbal and written.
• Educated to bachelor’s degree (or international equivalent) minimum – related subjects Teaching qualification.
• Experience teaching high school Drama Theatre is essential (IB experience is desired but not essential).
• Strong IT skills.
• Experience teaching in an international school preferred.
• Demonstrates consistently high standards of personal and professional conduct.
• Fluent in English both verbal and written.

Principal Accountabilities

• Demonstrate subject knowledge and understanding of developmental needs of students by providing relevant learning experiences that set high expectations that enable students’ use of higher level skills as appropriate.
• Plan using the school’s curriculum, effective strategies, resources, and data to meet the needs of all students ensuring that lessons are well planned with differentiating instructions, engaging content, planned learning is delivered and a love of learning is promoted.
• Effectively engage students in learning by using a variety of differentiated instructional strategies to meet individual student learning needs, including help for students needing additional learning support, working with resource teachers, including EAL and learning differences specialists, to support the learning needs of all students.
• Assessment of/for Learning Systematically gather, analyse, and use data to measure student progress and learning, guide instruction, provide timely feedback, inform own teaching and support curriculum development so that both students and the school achieve academic excellence.
• Learning Environment Use resources, routines, and procedures to provide a respectful, positive, safe, and student-centred environment that is conducive to learning.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues to develop teaching and learning resources for students at different levels, including on-line Virtual Learning Environment-based resources and materials, to address the students’ learning needs and the agreed curriculum for shared use in the department.

Start date: January 2023.

Duration: until June 2023.

It is an expectation that the teacher in this role contributes to the co-curricular programme of the Performing Arts Department, as producer, director, assistant director and, from time to time, as performer. These roles are additionally remunerated.

Safeguarding ACS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and as an employee of ACS you are expected to share this commitment. The protection of our students’ welfare is the responsibility of all staff within ACS International Schools and individuals are expected to conduct themselves in a way that reflects the principles of our organisation