Product Design Teacher

Product Design Teacher

ACS International Schools are recruiting an MYP/DP Product Design Teacher to join our Egham campus.

ACS International Schools are looking for an enthusiastic teacher of Product Design (DT). The role will encompass teaching Product Design in Middle School and/or High School. The ideal candidate would have MYP and DP experience and/or in using the Design Cycle in planning and delivering inquiry-based and student-centred lessons.

At ACS Egham International School we offer the IB - an aspirational, global, and modern curriculum that inspires children to become the drivers of their own success.

We’ve been teaching the IB at ACS for over fifty years, and our experience means we know how best to teach it. We know it gets results - and that’s why we offer the IB as our sole offering, orienting the entire school around its optimal delivery. Many of our teachers are IB examiners, meaning they know exactly how to help children to excel.

We are recruiting a teacher with a passion for inspiring students through a concept based, inquiry driven and student focused approach.

Knowledge, skills, and experience required:

• Educated to bachelor’s degree (or international equivalent) minimum – related subjects Teaching qualification
• Experience teaching relevant subject to (HS/MS/LS) students essential
• Strong IT skills
• Experience teaching in an international school preferred (of International Baccalaureate if in High School, AP, MYP, PYP where appropriate), alternatively experience teaching KS5/A levels experience is essential
• Demonstrates consistently high standards of personal and professional conduct
• Fluent in English both verbal and written

Principal Accountabilities:

• Demonstrate in depth and accurate knowledge and understanding of the curriculum, subject content and the 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: August 2023

Salary: £35-43,000 per annum depending on experience.

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