Athena Academic English is dedicated to enhancing the ability of students 4-15 years old to use academic English for use in an international environment, especially the ability to read and write in English. Athena Academic English is devoted to building a personalized K-12 international education journey for Chinese students and advocates for them to develop the skills of “Learning to Learn, Learning to Think.”

Athena Academic English’s course framework is independently researched and developed based on the needs of Chinese students and is benchmarked to the US Common Core State Standards. All teachers with Athena Academic English are native English speakers who are dedicated to the goal of improving their students’ ability to use academic English through Athena Academic English’s guided reading and writing programs with a small class size of 4-12 students.

Currently, Athena Academic English has 10 centers in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, and Ningbo.

Role Description
An Athena Academic English Senior Teacher is primarily an experienced and professional teacher who delivers and manages high quality and engaging lessons across the Athena curriculum. As well as setting the example in their own classrooms, the Senior Teacher additionally provides a collaborative and supportive role to the Center Head Teacher with a view to developing and forwarding own competencies in areas including training, reporting, and curriculum development.

Senior Teachers will teach up to a maximum of 100 teaching hours per month. In addition, they may be asked to perform other administrative teaching duties including facilitating student placement assessments, conducting parent meetings and participating in staff meetings. During the months of Summer and Winter Camps, regular teaching hours may be increased as per the contract.

This individual will also be expected to help foster and engage with a professional, collaborative culture of personal and departmental responsibility and ongoing improvement and growth.

Duties and Responsibilities
• Set high expectations that inspire, motivate and challenge students.
• Plan and teach outstanding and engaging lessons that meet course syllabus goals and objectives while applying Athena teaching approaches.
• Effectively deploy a range of strategies to manage and develop the classroom environment to create a welcoming, open, effective and positive learning environment.
• Differentiate class instruction, activities and resources in order to maximise learning opportunities for all learners.
• Apply appropriate forms of assessment to monitor student progress.
• Provide timely and effective student feedback.
• Update, maintain and submit a record of attendance, assessment and lesson planning using Athena course files.
• Write student reports and participate in teacher-parent meetings as per Athena Guidelines.
• Conduct student screeners and placement as per Athena guidelines.