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The Search Associates Advantage
Since 1990, our Leadership Search and Consulting Services Team has partnered with schools and boards all over the world to recruit, select, and hire upwards of 1,000 executive and school level leaders.
We are pleased to be partnering with Beijing City International School (BCIS) to find their next Director of Teaching and Learning.
The School
Beijing City International School (BCIS) was opened in September 2005. It was established to provide an international education for the expatriate communities in Beijing, as well as, uniquely, offering education to the children of internationally-minded Chinese nationals.
Beijing City International School is a private, not-for-profit institution governed by an appointed Board of Trustees. The school is funded by tuition fees.
The school boasts purpose-built, state-of-the-art, air-filtered facilities specifically designed to support our curriculum and progressive teaching and learning environment. The 51,000 square meters main campus sits on a plot of prime land in the heart of the CBD and within one kilometer of the China World Trade Centre.
At BCIS, high-quality learning and teaching begins with our mission and is a responsive partnership that involves all members of the learning community.
Challenge: Learning and teaching is personalized, developmentally appropriate, collaborative, and allows for transfer of knowledge and skills into authentic contexts.
Empower: Learning and teaching is intentional, concept-based, agentic, and cross-disciplinary to foster critical and creative thinking.
Inspire: Learning and teaching allows for self-directed inquiry that presents opportunities for the learners to take meaningful action for the good of all in an ever-changing world.
Compassion: Learning and teaching is inclusive and supports the academic, social-emotional development and well-being of the whole learners.
Position Overview
Beijing City International School’s (BCIS) Director of Teaching and Learning is responsible for challenging and empowering learners to be compassionate and inspired people, who act for the good of all and the sustainable development of the world. By leading the implementation of current educational research findings into practical classroom practices, the work of the Director of Teaching and Learning builds the reputation of BCIS as a leader of progressive, values-based cosmopolitan education.
Responsible to the BCIS Head of School (HoS), the Director of Teaching and Learning is a member of the executive leadership team as well as a key member of the BCIS instructional leadership team. As an experienced pedagogical leader and specialist in the development of future-focused curricula, the Director of Teaching and Learning is tasked with the development, implementation and oversight of curriculum, teaching, learning and assessment across the school. Working closely in collaboration with the divisional Principals and coordinating the work of the divisional curriculum leaders, the Director of Teaching and Learning drives the creation of future-oriented educational programs consistent with the guiding statements of BCIS.
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