Secondary Japanese Teacher

As a teacher of Secondary School Japanese, you will be a well-qualified, enthusiastic, and inspiring teacher who will be joining a supportive, welcoming, and successful team, with excellent outcomes. The successful candidate must also be hard-working, dedicated, and ideally, be keen to join the team in providing additional support to students in need, thereby encouraging success for all.

The key duties of this role will include:

- Teaching Secondary Cambridge International Japanese to Grade 6-10 students

- Ensuring that teaching and learning in the classroom are of a consistently high quality

- Teaching engaging and challenging lessons that promote students’ abilities to learn independently and to respond effectively to feedback

- Contributing to the MFL team and taking an active part in curriculum planning and preparation

- Instilling in students a love of Japanese

- Actively contributing to a cohesive, hardworking, and happy team, with a strong collegiate culture

- Promoting and developing students’ academic, personal, and social development beyond the classroom

Your background and experience

This is a certified Secondary School Japanese teaching position that requires you to have a recognised teaching qualification in teaching Secondary-age Japanese.

Please note that you must have the following qualifications to be considered:

- Bachelor or Master in Education or

- Relevant degree (minimum 3-year Bachelor degree) and a post-graduate qualification in education and/or a teaching certificate from a national/state accreditation board

Furthermore, we are looking for a teacher who:

- Has a strong curiosity about learning about other cultures and working with diverse people

- Has a genuine interest in the field of languages from both a pedagogical and theoretical perspective

- Display an open mindset and ability to develop efficient student and parent relationships

- Shows a willingness to embrace our VAS core values

- Has real enthusiasm for their subject and a commitment to teaching Japanese

- Believes that languages play an important role in the development of students’ skills, knowledge, and understanding

- Recognises the value of learning beyond the classroom in enhancing the understanding and experience of the world in which we live

- Is a team player, with a ‘can do’ solution-focused attitude

- Possesses outstanding communication skills and personal integrity