Date posted:2024-05-20 | Writer: Keystone Academy | Email: [email protected]
Keystone Academy is a new model of education in China. It blends distinctive traditions in eastern, western, and international education, creating a “new world school” that is academically outstanding. At Keystone, we embrace a world that is dynamic and ever-changing. We learn from and we learn for this enterprising, global community.
Keystone will prepare graduates for top universities around the world and in China. Ultimately, a Keystone education will equip them to take their place as significant participants on a global stage.
Requirements for teaching at Keystone
Minimum
Love of teaching and learning
Genuine interest in China, Chinese culture and language
Bachelor degree in area assigned to teach
Full teaching qualifications / credentials (TEFL/TESOL preferred)
Three years teaching experience
Willingness to participate in boarding duties (middle/upper school)
Ability to offer a variety of high quality after-school activities
Flexibility, open-mindedness, robust sense of humour
Internationally minded
Willing to work in collaboration with colleagues to establish a positive school culture, and grow programs.
Confidence to allow a primary focus on student learning
A respectful listener
Up-to-date proficiency with information technology
Desirable
International experience
IPC experience (primary)
MYP experience (middle)
Bilingual immersion experience
Language acquisition training
Ability to lead curricular development and improvement in subject area
Willingness and ability to teach across divisions if needed
General expectations of living and working at Keystone Academy
We often say at Keystone that the Academy is about learning. This is true for all the people who live and work in this educational community. It is also a statement that goes far beyond the classroom. Learning at Keystone takes place in our dormitories, our hallways, on the playing fields and dining halls, and encompasses social and emotional goals as well as the purely academic. We are as much about developing character, as expressed in Keystone’s statement of Shared Values, as we are about academic rigour. Indeed, to suggest that there is a hard and fast distinction “between” areas of head and heart is to attempt to make simple what we know to be a much more complex and dynamic relationship. Consequently, in our work as teachers and administrators at Keystone, we commit ourselves to a vision of education that extends the experience of teaching and learning into all areas of campus life: we all teach, we all contribute to the curriculum beyond the classroom, we all embrace the residential program and the notion of living in community within our areas of responsibility.
We are not a community that relentlessly counts “hours” or constructs exhaustive lists of responsibilities. Keystone expects that its staff members respond positively and with a high sense of professionalism to the needs of the school, the students, the parents, and their colleagues. While avoiding “bean counting,” a broad outline of a teaching position is possible. A full-time teacher at Keystone, regardless of division, is expected to;
Teach 24 class meetings a week.
Participate fully in curricular and other planning meetings, collaborating with colleagues in the development of the Academy’s curriculum and programs.
Offer one KAP (Keystone Activities Program) per KAP semester; KAPs meet once a week for 1 hour; there are two KAP semesters of approx. 12 weeks respectively each year.
Communicate in a professional manner with families, students, and colleagues.
Engage in a variety of duties (e.g. Library supervision, taking students to a movie on a Sunday afternoon, dorm affiliate duty, lunchroom supervision, recess duty, etc.) necessary to the care of the students and the smooth functioning of the institution.
Actively participate in the professional growth program of the school.
Advise and mentor students in a formal way, either as a Homeroom Teacher in the Primary or within the advising system of the Upper School.
Homeroom Teachers and advisors act as the primary point of connection between families and the school.
For Upper School teachers at the discretion of the school, staff live in the campus residences, providing pastoral care for students at the direction of the Dean of Students and Dean of Residential Life.
For teachers who are boarding with the students, Keystone provides a stipend to recognize the additional responsibility that this position requires.
Residential Life at Keystone Academy Central to the character development of Keystone students is their life on campus during the high school years. Secondary school teachers have their own two or three bedroom accommodation provided by the school, and those apartments are located within the residence complex on a student floor.
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