Overview:  Not for profit, international school in China, requires a K-12 School Counsellor to join their team.

Location: Tianjin, China  

Contract Terms: Contract begins in Sept 2012 is for a one year term, with an option to renew.

Compensation and Benefits:

-          An excellent starting ranging from US $ 38, 000 – 70,000 per annum

-          Signing on Bonus of US $1000

-          Vacation Pay

-          Medical Insurance

-          Professional Development

-          Free Tuition for Dependants

Qualifications and Experience Sought:

The school seeks a dynamic person to continue the development of a school-wide counselling program. This is a growing school with an increasing number of graduates every year. The successful candidate will have a degree and counselling qualification and at least 3 years or relevant counselling experience. A strong interest in college counselling is essential, including North American, UK, European and Korean universities. The school provides a dynamic, child-centered learning program where the individual student’s educational and social needs are addressed and where students are encouraged to construct knowledge through inquiry. The school is authorized to teach the IB Primary Years, Middle Years and Diploma Programs. Experience of these IB programs is not essential, although experience with the DP program would be an advantage. Flexibility and the ability to be a team player are essential qualities.

Description of Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing a school-wide counselling program, to include:

• Personal counselling for individual students and parents
• Group/whole class counselling
• Parent education sessions
• College and career counselling
• Development and administration of standardized testing program (SAT)
• Assisting the ongoing implementation and development 

The school has a warm, family atmosphere and it is essential that the counsellor will contribute strongly towards maintaining that ethos. The position is ideal for a creative and caring person seeking to continue to build an outstanding counselling program.

Additional Responsibilities:

In addition to his or her teaching responsibilities, the successful candidate will be expected to:

• participate in Week Without Walls field
• carry out periodic supervisory duties at break times and /or at the beginning or end of the school day
• participate in parent-teacher conferences
• attend special events and support student functions outside of the regular school day
• serve on an events committee and a task committee
• lead at least one extra-curricular activity for students
• participate in the professional development program for teachers and actively seek out opportunities to improve professionally
• Provide assistance and resources to the Health teachers
• contribute to a positive school climate of collegiality and collaboration

About The School:

Although it is a young school, they have a strong and positive reputation. They have an excellent faculty, most of whom are expatriate, and they are supported by competent and enthusiastic assistants and administrative staff. The students are a delight – hard working, cooperative and unfailingly polite! They also have a beautiful and spacious campus with unusually good facilities for a school of only some 500 students. This is  a student-centered school with a warm family atmosphere.

School Motto

Working together

Learning together

Acting together for our common future

SCHOOL PHILOSOPHY

Our school is a friendly place where the needs of the student come first. We all agree that the school and the family must work closely together to help each child achieve his or her unique potential. We help our students develop high self-esteem, expecting them to be respectful of others and to recognize that everybody is entitled to his or her own point of view.

Our students love to learn. They learn to think for themselves, but they also understand the benefit of working together in teams. Our students learn how to think creatively and critically, how to make sound judgments, and how to apply their knowledge in real life situations. Teachers and parents have high social, moral and academic expectations of our students. Together, they challenge students to make the most of their abilities, and help them to make meaningful connections between the different branches of human knowledge. Our teachers appreciate that individual students learn differently, so they provide a variety of learning experiences and use a wide range of teaching methods, and assessment strategies. Our community celebrates all kinds of student success and appreciates that adults, too, are learners.

Our common future requires that we all look beyond our immediate needs. For this reason, our students learn that they have a duty to the wider community and to the environment. They learn to take part in government, to give service to others, and to work towards a better and more peaceful world. They learn about our host country, China, and reflect on how different people in the world can learn from each other. Our students learn to be honest, to persevere in everything they do, and to have the courage to defend their views while making informed and ethical choices as future leaders in our changing world.

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