English Teacher

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We are looking for a dedicated English Teacher who will help us with our  NGO’s charity project: Kids.acadEMy.

Kids Academy is currently running in five of Bucharest’s Child Daycare Services centers: “Pinocchio” Center and “Casa din Tei” Center, „Sf. Pantelimon” Center, „Casa Sperantei” Center and „Eu si prietenii mei” Center.  Its mission is to teach the children of these centers three domains: Computer Science, Maths, and English.

The Kids.acadEMy vision is to break these children from their social heritage by providing them access to things that wouldn’t otherwise be available to them in regular circumstances: computers, tablets, smartphones, and knowledge. We want these kids to be able to access higher grades education and become an inspiration for their community.

Responsibilities

• Our new Teacher will be helping children coming from difficult families or backgrounds. They will learn basic English. We aim to help them acquire the necessary skills for them to be able to go through schools with good results and a chance at a better future..
• Works with children to help them acquire basic English skills for them to have access to more learning and development opportunities;
• Facilitates an atmosphere where the children should be safe to try new things and to make mistakes, where they can feel included and valued;
• Prepares materials for training and instruction sheets;
• Ensures that children have at their disposal the appropriate tools, hardware, and software for assigned tasks;
• Provides age-appropriate instruction in conversational English;
• Evaluates educational needs of the children and develops effective children educational experiences that engage and stimulate their school learning;
• Communicates expectations provide guidance, and shows an active interest in children’s progress;
• Uses formal and informal assessment strategies to manage children’s learning and monitor progress;
• Helps children identify and make use of supplemental instructional/media resources;
• Encourages self-reliance, problem-solving, critical thinking, creativity, and performance skills;
• Maintains a positive learning environment. Facilitates learning activities that encourage collaboration and positive relationships among each other;
• Evaluate children’s achievements, prepare progress reports.

Requirements

• Has followed a Psycho-pedagogy module or has previous teaching experience in educational projects that involved working with children (minimum 1 year);
• Excellent communication skills;
• Very good organizing and prioritizing skills;
• Intuition and proactivity;
• Problem-solving attitude;
• Easily adaptable;
• Train the trainer certification is a plus.