Grade 3 Homeroom Teacher in Inquiry - Playa Venao, Panama (2024)

Manglares Discovery School

Playa Venao, Panama

Qualifications:

Teaching License: A valid teaching license for the appropriate age group (typically ages 3-12) is essential.

Dispositions:

• Inquiry-Based Learning Experience: You should be passionate about inquiry-based learning. This involves guiding students to ask questions, explore topics, and develop knowledge through investigation. IB experience is a plus
• Student-Centered Approach: The teaching approach mustrevolvearound students being active participants in their learning. You'll need to be adept at creating engaging lessons that empower students to take ownership of their education.
• Transdisciplinary Skills: You should be comfortable creating connections between different subjects and fostering a holistic understanding in students, encouraging learning across disciplines.
• Global Citizenship: We emphasizeinternational mindedness and fostering global citizens. You should be comfortable integrating global perspectives and intercultural understanding into your lessons.
• Differentiation: You should have some experiencedifferentiating instruction to cater to individual student needs and learning styles.
• Assessment: Experience at assessing student learning through formative and summative assessments that go beyond traditional tests.
• Collaboration: You should be comfortable working with colleagues, parents, and the wider community to create a strong learning environment.
• Passion for Learning: A love for learning is contagious! Being a lifelong learner yourself will set a positive example for your students.
• Strong Communication Skills: Effective communication is instrumental in guiding students through inquiry, providing feedback, and collaborating with others.

This is a Direct to School Job

This is a Direct to School Job

About the School:

Our Philosophy

We believe that every child wants to and can learn.

When children find meaning in learning, they are motivated and challenged, and take ownership of their learning.

We value every child as an individual. Our children have diverse learning needs and bring with them a wide range of experiences, beliefs, knowledge, and skills. We adapt our teaching pace, approaches, and assessment practices to be effective and appropriate for where the child is in development.

We believe that learning takes place in caring and safe environments. We cultivate positive teacher-student and peer relationships so that there is a culture of care and mutual respect in our classrooms, where children learn to appreciate diversity. They are encouraged to take risks, learn from their mistakes and one another, and be confident in expressing their views.

Learning takes place individually and collaboratively, as children construct and co-construct meaning from knowledge and experiences. We guide learners to activate prior knowledge and assimilate and accommodate new knowledge through exploration and interaction with others. This allows them to build a strong foundation of knowledge by connecting new ideas and experiences with what they already know, thus facilitating the understanding of concepts and the application of what they have learned to different contexts.

We believe in developing thinking skills and dispositions in our learners. To do this, we guide them to construct, interpret, and evaluate knowledge from different perspectives. We help learners understand that by thinking about their thinking, they can monitor, assess and improve their learning.

Assessment is integral to the learning process and helps children become self-directed learners. As such, we design assessments with clarity of purpose, to provide our learners and us with feedback to address learning gaps and improve teaching practices.

About Panama:

Teaching in Panama, owing to its great variety, can be as laid back or as exciting as you want to make it. Surrounded by turquoise ocean and filled with tons of natural terrain and bustling cityscapes to explore, the adventurous will be just as happy as those who like to lay back on the beach.

This is a Direct to School Job

This is a Direct to School Job