Qualities of the Learning Support Teacher will include:

• Actively contributes to a positive work environment.
• Maintaining confidentiality and privacy.
• Demonstrates healthy personal and emotional boundaries in balance with sensitivity and care for students with special educational needs.
• Proactively seeks help and guidance.
• A solid understanding of middle school and high school aged students' academic, social, and emotional development.
• Attention to detail.
• Familiarity with International Baccalaureate vernacular, mission, and curriculum or a willingness to learn.

• Must be in school during working hours as specified in the BIS Staff Working Agreement.
• Serves as main caseworker for students identified as being on the learning support roster for learning support teacher's assigned grade levels.
• Assesses students formally and informally including classroom observations, which results in assessment reports, circulation of relevant findings, meetings with parents and teachers, designing of IEPs and monitoring further recommendations.
• Administers extended times accommodations, standardized assessments and/or mock exams as required by the school.
• Communicates with other professionals such as speech therapists, psychologists and occupational therapists.
• Teaches individual students and small groups of students using appropriate and motivating materials including assistive technology, evidence-based learning support intervention and curriculum support. Student contact based on need and as pull out or in class support.
• Provides on-going, timely feedback (academic progress, social/personal, etc.) to individual students.
• Provides a point of contact for teachers to discuss students with learning challenges.
• Provides regular opportunities to liaise with parents and class teachers to discuss student progress.
• Assists classroom and single subject teachers to implement modifications in work tasks to better match the needs of all learners.
• Attends faculty meetings, in-service meetings, grade level meetings, or department meetings as required under the BIS Staff Working Agreement.
• Coordinates meetings between groups of teachers to discuss students with learning or behavioural concerns.
• Collaborates as part of the ‘Student Support Service’ team to discuss students and review the quality of the services offered at BIS.
• Establishes and maintains positive relationships with students and parents.
• Establishes and maintains expectations of student behaviour in and out of the classroom to create a well-functioning learning atmosphere in the school.
• Contributes to the wider school curriculum through active involvement in after-school activities, field trips, overnight trips, etc.
• Maintains professional competence by pursuing professional development opportunities both internally and externally and by engaging in the BIS appraisal process.
• Models the values and professional demeanour as expressed in the BIS Code of Professional Conduct and the BIS Standards of Teaching Excellence.

• Education: An appropriate college or university degree from an accredited higher education institute is a must; preferably a master's degree in special education or educational psychology.
• Certification: Up-to-date credential required for the assigned teaching position. This credential must be issued by a national or state certification board or its equivalent, and this credential must be responsible for filing appropriate documentation with Human Resources.
• Experience: A minimum of five years of special education/learning support teaching experience in a diverse setting.

We offer a varied and exciting job with an international spirit, at a modern campus with the best equipment. We promote professional development and training and provide our employees with their own laptops and among other things. We live diversity, and the work-life balance of our employees is important to us. Therefore, we offer excellent working conditions and social benefits.