As a Senior School AEN Teacher you will serve as an integral part of the student journey, providing support for students with diverse learning needs within inclusive settings. This role is pivotal in supporting students by providing proactive and responsive services and in engaging all stakeholders to deliver programming to ensure extracurricular, academic, personal and social pathway development for all students. The AEN teacher acts as a student liaison and advocate, linking to all relevant departments and stakeholders to ensure student success. Working within a cohesive team, you will support and promote an inclusive culture which is focused on growth, purpose, and a sense of belonging as part of the student experience. Become part of an exciting educational organisation that encourages individual attention on the student, supporting families through transitions and staff engagement through professional learning and interactions.
Key areas of responsibility
The successful candidate will collaborate with and serve on interdisciplinary teams for the continual development and implementation of tiered programming to support students with additional educational needs to in include, but not limited to:
- Collecting and analysing cognitive, academic, emotional and behavioural assessment data for prevention and intervention recommendations.
- Recommending, supporting and implementing early intervention, targeted and intensive services.
- Supporting a tiered systems approach through a continuum of data collection, evaluation, analysis, documentation and recommendation.
They will also:
- Work closely with interdisciplinary teams, including pastoral and academic staff, to enhance student learning and wellbeing through the development of individual education plans to support personalised pathways.
- Collaborate with relevant staff and stakeholders to support the strategic development and implementation of effective and inclusive programming through differentiated instruction, co-teaching, co-planning, and flexible grouping.
- Serve as part of a wider team to make informed decisions and to ensure the articulation and vertical alignment of services and transitions from school to school and year to year for all students receiving AEN services.
- Collaborate with professional learning leads and other staff members to identify areas and ways to support professional learning on campus in the areas of additional educational needs.
- Understand and apply exam access arrangement processes.
The successful candidate will have:
- Relevant qualifications and certification in special education and relevant experience working within a school setting.
- Relevant experience in the interpretation and reporting on psychoeducational assessments.
- Deep knowledge of developing individual education/learning plans to include: creating individual goals, measurement, and evaluation.
- Experience working with international students and families with a deep working knowledge of the importance of culturally responsive practice.
- Experience working inter-departmentally in the development, implementation and support of tiered systems and processes to include relevant assessment practices, documentation, data tracking, and analysis.
- Relevant and responsive knowledge of current practice to support co-teaching, parallel planning and flexible grouping within inclusive settings.
- Experience working with outside agencies and community members to support programming in additional support areas as needed, to include occupational therapists, educational psychologists, mental health providers, and speech and language therapists.
Our Vision for Teachers
Dulwich College International (DCI) is a family of leading international schools in Asia. Across our schools, we are focused on nurturing every student to have the skills and motivation to thrive in life and make a positive difference in the world - that is, to Graduate Worldwise. To this end, we look to recruit the very best practitioners in international education who are passionate about unlocking the potential of our students, and who will continue to grow with us as Worldwise Teachers.
Worldwise teachers:
- Put students first in all they do
- Display a positive attitude, adaptability and open-mindedness
- Show professional initiative and perseverance
- Are truly collaborative and display highly developed communication skills
- Are committed to internationalism and equity
- Are committed to sustainability and global citizenship
Worldwise teachers believe in:
- The right of every student to be safe, supported and nurtured
- Evidence-based and innovative pedagogy
- Personalised and differentiated student learning
- Setting high expectations for every student
- Empowering students to reach their own goals
- High levels of student motivation and engagement
A Worldwise teacher's practice:
- Maximises every student's opportunity learn
- Promotes student agency, reflection and a love of learning
- Delivers academic rigour and holistic learning
- Reveals the complex and inter-disciplinary nature of learning content
- Creates a supportive and dynamic learning environment
- Develops students higher-order thinking
