Laboratory Technician

Position Objective: A VAS teacher is a role model for every member of the VAS community, and uses a range of strategies to encourage a life-long love for learning and the acquisition of transferrable skills in his/her students.
Reporting to: The Respective Divisional Principal
Interfaces with: Administrators, colleagues, faculty, staff, students and parents
VAS teacher is accountable for:
- The level of achievement for students assigned
- Providing evidence(s) of progress of their students
- Fostering a safe and encouraging learning environment for all students
- A commitment to personalized lifelong learning
- Reporting to parents on the progress of each child
- Effectively differentiating the learning to meet the needs of all children
- Using a broad range of approaches for teaching and learning
- Showing care and empathy for students at all times
- Collaborating with colleagues
- Maintaining high standards when implementing responsibilities
Job Description
1. Approaches to teaching
- Know his/her subject
- Approach inquiry-based and constructivist in nature
- Use a range of appropriate teaching strategies, including a well-informed understanding of how we learn
- Differentiate to meet students' individual needs
- Use assessment to promote continuous learning
- Continually monitor student attainment to demonstrate progress
- Effective use of ICT to enhance learning
- Effective and thorough unit planning
- Encourage individual student engagement
- Motivate students to achieve beyond previous performance levels
- Effective class management
- Create a learning environment conductive to learning
- Actively reflect on their own teaching practice
2. Caring for students
- Encourage students to ask clarifying questions (before/during/after lessons)
- Make time available for students
- Cater to students' individual leaning needs by adapting content/changing teaching approaches and pacing of lesson/unit
- Use virtual classroom as an extension of leaning
- Monitor student academic progress and taking immediate steps
- Monitor social and emotional well-being and taking immediate steps
3. Communication to students and parents
- Actively and immediately communicate with students and parents using appropriate tools (phone calls, email, face-to-face, etc.)
- With important messages, phone call or face-to-face interaction should be followed up by an email
- Tone should always be professional and courteous. When in doubt, ask a colleague or ELT member to proofread
4. Collaboration in the workplace
- Value cooperation, mutual support and highly effective communication
- Promote harmony
- Demonstrate open-mindedness
- Actively seek appropriate resolutions to conflicts (should they arrive)
- Support all colleagues
- Develop and promote good rapport with all members of the school community
5. Professionalism (link to appraisal: observations, attendance and contributions in meetings and on committees)
- Demonstrate to professional ethics, international mindedness and the school's mission
- Adhere cooperatively to VAS policies and regulations, including duties, deadlines, programme requirements, and HR policies
- Seek clarification in cases of lack of clarity in order to fully meet all expectations of the role
- Set and maintain consistently high standards
- Contribute to the development of curriculum and assessment documentation
- Show exemplary attendance to work
- Recognize the importance and support for the VAS extended school day activities
- Expend effort and energy beyond the regular timetabled day to contribute to the welfare of students and programme
- Attend staff meetings and serve on committees as requested/needed
6. English Speaking Environment
All technicians are required to encourage and enforce an English-speaking environment for all students within the school compound. No communication in Vietnamese should be allowed during and within all Cambridge and English classes.
7. Other tasks
- Participate in extra-curricular activities and responsibilities connected with others engaged in the teaching profession, including staff meetings, parents evenings, open houses, examination supervision, etc. as directed by the Education Leadership Team of the School
- Participate whenever the School is involved in wider community activities and do so on good demeanor and appropriate role model and professional attire/dress representing the School in a most positive manner
- Undertake other tasks as and when assigned by the Immediate Superior and/or the school.