Latest Recruitment at Aga Khan Education Service, Kenya (AKESK)

Role Summary

• A PYP Homeroom Teacher is an informed, reflective practitioner who uses inquiry-based learning and teaching strategies to create a positive learning environment that motivates and challenges all learners to develop attributes of the IB Learner Profile to become independent, life-long learners and leaders.
• The PYP Homeroom Teacher will ensure student success and provide for the individual learning needs of each learner.  He/she will be responsible for creating an inquiry-based classroom and teaching within the IB's Primary Years Programme (PYP) philosophy. 

The requirements

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Education/Bachelor’s degree with PGCE
• 5 years of teaching experience in an international school
• PYP-focused professional development
• Proven ability to work effectively in a multicultural collaborative team and environment
• Be conversant with the use of technology as a teaching and learning tool
• Teachers Service Commission (TSC) registration certificate
• Certificate of good conduct

In addition to the above, experience with any of the following will be an added advantage:

• Sports Science
• Performance and Visual Arts
• Technology integration
• Modern European languages
• Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics (STEAM)
• Experience in Special Education Needs

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Role Summary

• The teacher will ensure the students recognize and use of the French Language as a vehicle of thought, reflection, self-expression and learning in other subjects, and as a tool for enhancing literacy. This will allow the students to understand the nature of the language and the process of linguistic integration, cultural and social components. The teacher should focus on effective teamwork and collaboration, use of differentiation to meet the needs of the learners and the teaching and learning should be informed by formative and summative assessments.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaboratively plan units of study designed for maximizing learning for all students
• Developing and planning French teaching strategies
• Communicate to students in the French Language
• Deliver effective, differentiated and inquiry-based lessons in a friendly and supportive atmosphere
• Create a safe and conducive environment in which the students can learn and thrive
• Use varied, adequate assessments, including formative and summative assessment in line with the IBO requirements
• Engage parents regularly and effectively in the education of their children
• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the relevant subject and modern pedagogy
• Accurately evaluate and comment on both the ability and developmental potential of each student
• Effectively communicate with students, colleagues and parents, including through email and the school information system
• Demonstrate an experience of high professional values and practices
• Show profound commitment to ongoing professional growth and to taking on responsibility for fulfilling the vision and philosophy of the Aga Khan Academy, Nairobi

The requirements

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Education and French or Bachelor’s degree with PGCE and French
• 3-5 years’ teaching experience preferably in the Primary Years Programme
  (IB- PYP)
• TSC registration certificate
• Certificate of good conduct