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Native English Teacher

Job Description

*Updated 2022-12-08

 

Our teachers should be professional teachers, people who are genuine about education, people who love to work with children and get great satisfaction working with children. We are looking for teachers who are eager to expand their career in education, people who are looking to grow. Our teachers are loving, caring and genuinely interested in children. They like to interact with children be they their own students or others. Our teachers are not afraid of letting their hair down, getting dirty and hands on with the kids. Our teachers are open to new concepts, to new ideas to new methodologies and are generally open to learning and keen to learn. 

Our teachers are organised, meticulous and perfectionists. They take pride in the work and they understand the need for excellence and they strive for this in everything they do. 

Our teachers become the best teachers and they become very proud of what they do and have achieved.

 

 

Duties

1. Teaching approx. 25 hours per week (give and take)

Unlike every other centre, we cap our teachers teaching hours for the sake of quality, passion and having enough energy to ensure each class is awesome.

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We don’t state that in the contract as it reduces the centre's ability to be flexible to accommodate for situations. However, all our centre managers do well to keep the teaching hours to around 25 hours during regular term time. During the summer programme (our peak season between mid July to the end of August), you should expect to teach around 28 hours (give and take). Most teachers find that if taken an average over a period like 3 months, their hours are within the informal cap.

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2. Admin Duties

Aside from your teaching hours specified in the job description, there are 3 main teacher admin duties

 

Monthly Parent Updates

You are expected to update every single one of your students parents once a month. Each parent update takes about 15 minutes, which means in one hour, you should aim to complete four.

To begin a parent update. You must enter an entry in our student journal, this is basically a few bullet points that outlines how a student have been learning for the past month, including progress and challenges.

After you have articulated this information in the journal, you can call the parent and perform a parent update (or speak to them in person if they come to pick up their kids after class). You should aim to deliver this information in a five minute phone conversation.

After you have completed the phone call, you must capture this conversation in a call log (just date and method), so you can you track your Parent Update progress through each month.

 

Progress Report Writing and Printing

At the end of each level, which is usually between 3 to 6 months long depending on the course. You are expected to write a progress report for each student that outlines the progress that they have made, and the skills that they've learned. In each report card, there is a comment box where you can write something positive, so that your students can bring this report card to any school interviews they might be going to.

Teachers can usually start writing these reports towards the end of the course, rather than after the end of a course to save time.

 

Preparing Lesson Materials

Most of our courses are now using printed books, so there is very little to prepare other than some activity cutouts. Before some high-level courses teachers are expected to print worksheets and booklets, this takes about an hour or so for each week's classes.

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3. Meeting with your centre manager to account for every single one of your students

4. Attend meetings & our company wide annual refresher training

5. Planning for special events

6. Participate in continuous professional development

 

 

Requirements

  1. Native English Speaker (A clear, general accent such as Received Pronunciation for British English or General American English is preferred; while heavy regional accents will not be acceptable)

  2. Teaching qualification of at least 120 hours TEFL / TESOL.
    NB: Immigration department of Hong Kong will not approve your visa application if you do not have this as a minimum. 

  3. Excellent spoken, written and grammar skills.

  4. Associate Degree, Higher Diploma, University Undergraduate Bachelor Degree or higher.

  5. Confidence – able to present oneself to parents confidently.

  6. Presentable – you look like a professional teacher.

  7. Experience (though we may consider candidates with less experience).

  8. Able to work with a range of children’s ages, from the ages of 3 to 12.

  9. Team player – you can work with colleagues smoothly.

  10. Positive CAN DO! attitude.

  11. Problem solver – NOT PROBLEM PRESENTER.

  12. Able to work independently.

  13. Able to work to deadlines.

  14. Accountable, responsible person who accounts for their work.

  15. Loves children! Finds them cute, finds them funny and enjoys interacting with them.

 

 

 

Benefits

  • Full Visa Sponsorship

  • Full training

  • Continual professional development

  • Appraisals and professional development

  • Orientation programme

  • Competitive incremental salary​

  • 14 days paid annual leave

  • 16 – 18 paid public holidays​

  • Social network connection

Professional Teacher Training

All teachers will undergo our rigorous structured teacher training programme regardless of their existing experience. Our training programme ensures that all teachers are teaching to our high standards and can deliver learning objective results using our curriculum and teaching methodology. 

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Week 1: Practical Training: Lesson Observations, Teaching Methodology, practicum; Teaching related Administration

Week 2: Practical Training via Practicum; Student Relationship Building; Company Information; Policies;  

Week 3-8: Independent teaching

Week 9-12: Head Office Lesson Observation, Lesson Demonstration & Evaluation

  • Programmes, Theory & Course Description Training: Every quarter

  • Refreshers Training: Annual company wide refreshers training for all teachers and staff held in September of each year

Evaluation: All lesson observations will be documented and graded and shared with the teacher and the centre manager. 

The Interview Process

 

APPLYING FROM ABROAD

Evaluation of your suitability will be done via Skype interviews. 

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APPLYING LOCALLY IN HONG KONG

Our interview stage consists of 2 parts. The first is the initial interview, where we get to know you better and you get to ask some more questions regarding the job and organisation. The second part is a lesson observation where you will be asked to participate in a full lesson and given a small section of the lesson to conduct. The purpose of the second interview is for us to evaluate your personality to see if you are the right fit! To see how you interact with the children, to see the chemistry between you and the kids as well as to have a glimpse of your teaching style.

 

Interview Location(s): TBC

 

Basic Information

Here is some information regarding the teaching post:

 

The Terms of Employment

  • Full time employment

  • 5 day working week

  • Day off on sun plus one other day in the week (company will try to fix this day as much as possible, but the company reserves the right to change days. FYI, we only really change at the start of every academic year, but nonetheless, the company reserves this right for purpose of rostering)

  • Working hours 09:30 – 18:30

  • Annual Leave 14 days (Not including the public holidays. You will be reimbursed a holiday, on a pro-rata basis, if your day coincides with a public holiday)

  • Average Teaching Hours – Please note this is just for your information to give you an idea of the current climate

  • MPF contribution

  • Medical and insurance (upon passing probation)

Professional Development

  • We believe our people are our greatest asset and as such, we are prepared to invest in our people as much as we are prepared to invest in the company.

  • We encourage all of our teachers to take up professional development courses available on line and off line, as long as they do not intrude with working hours and duties. There are a number of courses supplied by several organisations, some of which are free, and some are paid. For those that are paid, teachers must apply with their branch manager for approval in order to be sponsored.

Teaching Age Range

  • Our centre caters for children from the age of 3 years old to 12 years. 

  • The majority of our students lie in the kindergarten and lower primary age range. 

  • Our teachers mainly teach a section of this age range rather than the full spectrum, however, you should expect to teach the full spectrum.

Non Teaching Duties

  • Teaching related administration

  • Parents update

Start Date

  • TBC

Working Locations

  • TBC

  • All teachers are expected to take sub classes at other branches from time-to-time, however you will be predominantly based in one location.​

How to Apply?

If you would like to learn more, please send an email to hr@babington.edu.hk with the subject “Teacher web application” and include the following:

  1. C.V. (in PDF)

  2. SCRC (if you are a local candidate and have a HKID)

  3. Recent photo

  4. Start date

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