Head Teacher

Job Description:
This individual will manage the center academic department by maintaining pro-active oversight over key areas, providing remedial action and training where necessary. This individual will collaborate with the Center Manager to build business opportunities for the center and create a strong customer base and work to form a highly reputable center teaching team that is productive and accountable within the wider national Athena team.
This individual will also be expected to foster a professional, collaborative culture of personal and departmental responsibility and ongoing improvement and growth.

Job Responsibilities:
• Uphold the highest standards of professional behavior, attitude and appearance as per the Athena Employee Handbook.
Management (50%)
• Pro-actively oversee and implement Athena curricula, screener and placement processes.
• Pro-actively oversee and implement Athena standards for student monitoring, assessment, feedback and reporting.
• Pro-actively oversee teachers’ academic administration documents (i.e. lesson plans and course files).
• Share teaching resources with colleagues at other Athena centers.
• Organize teacher training workshops that respond to both individual teachers, center and company needs.
• Implement Athena standards for teacher appraisal, including scheduled lesson evaluations, check-in sessions and setting of individual objectives.
• Maintain updated and accurate records of individual teacher training, observations and evaluations.
• Mentor and coach individual teacher to help them achieve their development goals.
• Support ongoing curriculum development of courses by retaining and sharing teaching resources and occasionally developing new resources under direction of Academic Management.
• Organize and co-lead focused and action-oriented weekly meetings with center staff and teachers.
• Complete all academic reporting as assigned by Academic Management.
• Conduct interviews of new teachers for center, reporting feedback to HR.
• Support the Centre Manager with business development. Help with sales, referral and marketing events.

Teaching (50%)
• Set high expectations that inspire, motivate and challenge students.
• Plan and teach outstanding and engaging lessons that meet course syllabus goals and objectives while applying Athena teaching approaches.
• Effectively deploy a range of strategies to manage and develop the classroom environment to create a welcoming, open, effective and positive learning environment.
• Differentiate class instruction, activities and resources in order to maximize learning opportunities for all learners.
• Apply appropriate forms of assessment to monitor student progress.
• Provide timely and effective student feedback.
• Update, maintain and submit a record of attendance, assessment and lesson planning using Athena course files.
• Write student reports and participate in teacher-parent meetings as per Athena Guidelines.
• Conduct student screeners and placement as per Athena guidelines.
Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in either Arts or Sciences. Preference currently given to candidates with an English, Education or Science major.
• A teaching qualification such as CELTA, TESOL, ideally at postgraduate level.
• Minimum of five years of relevant teaching experience of reading, writing and/or general English courses. Conversation classes would not count towards this experience.
Essential Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
• Excellent understanding of good classroom practice and key principles of child learning.
• Experience of developing own lesson plans and resources while working towards set goals and objectives.
• Experience of effectively managing a team.
• Ability to effectively collaborate with others to achieve desired outcomes.
• Strong organizational skills and time management skills; ability to be flexible and solve problems.
• Experience in managing multiple tasks and the ability to deal positively with obstacles to progress.
• Excellent ability to communicate through verbal and written means with individuals and small groups at all levels of the organization.

Desired Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
• Holds a postgraduate qualification in an education-related discipline, with post-qualification experience.
• Experience of managing and collaborating across departments and/or locations.
• Experience and competence with digital technology in the classroom.
• Prior experience with curriculum development.
• Prior experience with teaching programming, electronics, and technology.
• Prior experience in international departments and/or international school settings.
• Prior experience at English training centers.
• Prior experience with IB PYP, Inquiry-based learning, Project-based learning.

About the company
Athena Academy is the subsidiary of Elite K-12 International Education Group. We adopt the US Common Core Standard and the teaching methodologies of Project-based Learning (PBL) in designing our programs. Our aim is to provide our students opportunities in not only learning Academic English, but also acquiring the soft-skills of critical thinking, collaboration, communication, problem solving and creativity, which will enable them to adapt and enhance their own capacity in this constantly changing 21st century.