The Swedish Community School in Addis Ababa is a school with a Swedish profile. The Swedish School was founded in 1946 and the School has more than 70 years of experience, delivering Swedish education in the English language in a foreign environment.
Today the school offers Preschool, Primary and Lower Secondary and has around 150 children ranging from 3 to 14 years old. The Swedish Community School provides education in English in accordance with the Swedish Curriculum, LGR 11, for compulsory school.
Full Time:
Art
Physical Education (PE)
Substitute Teachers:
French
English
Primary Responsibilities:
Maintain and enrich your expertise in the subject area you will teach;
Develop lesson plans that ensure the attainment of state learning standards and the additional specific grade-by-grade learning standards set forth in the charter;
Coordinate lesson plans with other teachers to maximize possibilities for teaching similar topics in the same general time frame, thus reinforcing student knowledge on an interdisciplinary basis;
Provide direct and indirect instruction;
Long and short-term planning addressing individual needs of students;
Prepare students adequately for all required assessments;
Evaluate students’ progress;
Prepare at least quarterly individual student achievement reports for parents;
Provide an inviting, exciting, innovative, learning environment;
Engage in effective and appropriate classroom management;
Accept and incorporate feedback and coaching from administrative staff;
Serve as an advisor to a students, including organizing advisory groups, overseeing the academic and behavioral progress;
Perform other duties, as deemed appropriate, by the principal.
Compensation:
The position will be compensated with a competitive salary, based on school standards of pay, experience and qualifications
Job Requirement
Minimum Essential Qualification:
Minimum of Bachelors of Education, with specialization in your subject.
Demonstrated expertise in the subject they will teach, as evidenced by personal skills and knowledge, an undergraduate major or minor or graduate degree in the subject they will teach, or direct subject-area teaching experience;
Demonstrated communication skills;
Demonstrated ability and experience to engage the interest of school-age children;
Demonstrated ability to work with diverse children, including those with special needs;
Teaching experience in a public or private school, preferably in an urban setting;
Demonstrated ability to work well with parents;
Demonstrated ability to work effectively as a team member;
Demonstrated ability to evaluate tests and measurements of achievement;
Demonstrated willingness to be held accountable for student results.
Experience:
2 years in the classroom
Work experience from community or international schools is highly desirable
Essential knowledge- skill requirements:
High degree of communication skills
Ability to maintain sound working relationships.
Autonomous and well organized with ability to meet tight deadlines.