Blub and Interview Padlet by Rima Singh https://padlet.com/rimasingh3/zyawg4oya1o9utcx en-us 2022-10-13 09:57:56 UTC 2025-10-24 00:46:55 UTC hello@padlet.com PYP Coordinator: Environment Marketing Blurb! (Paul Cheevers) pcheevers1 https://padlet.com/rimasingh3/zyawg4oya1o9utcx/wish/2347042532 Role: PYP Coordinator

Academia Cotopaxi supports their entire learning community through providing essential structures, systems and resources, to help ensure the best possible learning environment.

Our school’s leadership ensures that we are consistently reviewing our programs and have qualified coordinators in place to facilitate these systems. Our leadership works closely with teams to create time for collaboration and continuous improvement of our program's facilities through funding and resources for our teachers. Our school’s support reaches to our entire school community.

Our students are supported with an array of human, natural, built and virtual resources to enhance their learning experiences.  Our learning support team helps to develop the social emotional and overall well being of our students.

Finally, our teachers are supported with professional development, time and resources, to help ensure that they are keeping up with best practices.

Interview Questions (Environment)

What professional development have you done within the last few years? How did this professional develop yourself, as well as other members of your school community?

What do you find to be the most challenging obstacle when it comes to keeping up with best practices? What do you do to overcome those challenges?

Our teachers and students have an incredible amount of support when it comes to social, emotional and overall well being. Even with this, we feel that every member of our community plays a role in the overall well being of each child. What are some strategies that you use to help ensure that learners in your class are being supported not just academically, but socially and emotionally as well?


]]> 2022-10-19 13:41:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rimasingh3/zyawg4oya1o9utcx/wish/2347042532 SJS ESF- Charlotte phillc2_2 https://padlet.com/rimasingh3/zyawg4oya1o9utcx/wish/2348705779 Role: Leader Teacher Y2

Sha Tin Junior School is an all inclusive international school that builds its relationships with the wider community in order to create a relationship of learning in and out of our school context. Drawing upon many of our talented parents, carers and people within our community, allows for further understanding of the IB curriculum and enhances our children’s learning experiences. 

SJS fosters the social, emotional, and physical well-being of its students and teachers through a fantastic leadership team who listen, support and guide where needed. The school includes on its pedagogical leadership team an IB-trained programme coordinator who is empowered to facilitate successful programme implementation. With our IB curriculum coordinator we organise time for learning and teaching that provides a broad, balanced and connected curriculum and serves the changing needs of its community.
 
Are you…
  • Calm, caring and have a fun nature
  • A team player who brings energy and enthusiasm
  • Enthusiastic, willing to learn and progress your knowledge further
  • Well organised, reliable and trustworthy
  • Have excellent communication skills
  • Committed to working as part of a team
  • Patient 
  • Good time management skills
  • Have high expectations and standards 

We can offer…
  • To work within Hong Kong’s leading international education organisation
  • To work in our internationally-minded and fully inclusive school
  • To work alongside an incredible team of talented educators
  • Child-centred, open-ended, engaging teaching and learning opportunities
  • Dedicated and supportive professional environment 
  • Huge range of CPD opportunities world wide
  • Developmental opportunities that link to your aspirations
  • Network of 22 ESF schools to collaborate and professionally work alongside


Interview Questions:

  1. Why are you a teacher? What is your teaching philosophy?
  2. What do you do to create a positive learning environment in your classroom?
  3. How do you ensure that students in your class are appropriately challenged and supported in their learning?
  4. What do you believe you bring to a team and its daily interaction and collaboration?
  5. How do you develop effective relationships/partnerships with parents and the wider community?
]]> 2022-10-20 09:16:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rimasingh3/zyawg4oya1o9utcx/wish/2348705779 Sandra- Marketing Blurb and Interview Questions https://padlet.com/rimasingh3/zyawg4oya1o9utcx/wish/2352290634
 At SIBS, we are now hiring for the 2023-2024  academic year, and we are seeking teachers who are dynamic, imaginative, adaptable, reflective, and lifelong learners who challenge themselves and their students to think creatively. We require educators who are risk-takers and who encourage children to ask questions about their environment and what they are learning. We are recruiting educators who appreciate the importance of working on real-world problems and who will help students broaden their worldviews through intelligent, challenging, and engaging units of study. As the core of our literacy program, we want our candidates to recognize the significance of fostering reading and writing abilities. We want our children to be exposed to as many writing and reading genres as possible and to be able to comprehend the purpose of what they read and write about, as well as the significance of taking into account the various aspects of communication. We seek educators who can truly make a difference in the lives of children by allowing students to have agency and become leaders within and beyond the classroom. We pledge to treat you with the utmost courtesy and to provide you with ongoing professional development so that you will look forward to coming to work. Having happy teachers enables us to create a work environment that encourages a growth attitude as opposed to a fixed mindset.  We welcome educators who will make a difference and provide our students with the attention and respect they require in order for them to become better individuals and contribute to making the world a better place to live.                           If any of this information resonates with you, you have come to the right place.
 
 Interview Questions:
In what way is the PYP philosophy apparent in your classroom? 
How does your class differ from a regular classroom?
Do you find it challenging to cover both the curriculum and the transdisciplinary themes? If so, how do you overcome those issues?  
What type planning do you carry out at your school?                                                 How do you include the 5 PYP essential elements? (Knowledge, concepts, skills, attitude, and action)
In what way do you include the learner profile in your classroom?
How do you know that students have addressed each aspect of the learner profile?
How do you ensure students develop international mindedness?
When and how do you incorporate inquiry into your classrooms?
What has been your most successful Unit of Inquiry and why?
How do you teach a child to read and write?
How do you use assessment?
How do you promote agency in your classroom?
What type of action do you expect to see in your classroom?
How do you help students to make connections between one class and others?
How do you give students opportunities for independent learning, if any?
 How can differentiation be seen in your classroom? 
                 
 
]]> 2022-10-23 13:46:51 UTC https://padlet.com/rimasingh3/zyawg4oya1o9utcx/wish/2352290634 Sharon https://padlet.com/rimasingh3/zyawg4oya1o9utcx/wish/2358905675 Role - Head of Music and Performing Arts

Sha Tin Junior School is now inviting candidates to register their interest for the position of Music Teacher. Are you a skilled Music teacher, with the ability to motivate, inspire and engage with students in creative and innovative ways, both within and outside the classroom?

We are a school with a strong commitment to taking an inclusive approach to meet the needs of all students. We pride ourselves on the ability to communicate effectively and sensitively. We use a range of strategies for positive classroom management, flexible groupings and structured inquiry, in line with the IB philosophy, ensuring excellent outcomes. We offer a vast range of PD world wide and a network of 22 schools to collaborate alongside in state of the art facilities.
 
Questions:
What is your teaching philosophy?

How would you teach music performance in an inquiry based way?

To what extent have you taught music as a cross curricular subject?

What digital technologies are you confident in that enhance learning?

Describe to me your dream ‘music room’, what would it look like? What would be in it?

How would you ensure that students' needs are met and that their learning is supported?

Describe to me your successes in leading musical ECAs.
]]> 2022-10-27 11:37:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rimasingh3/zyawg4oya1o9utcx/wish/2358905675