Full Time, Permanent

January 2025

20 December 2024

Jan 2025 Start -IB Middle and High School Visual Arts teacher -EU Passport Holder ONLY ( or currently working in Italy)

We are looking for a dynamic and collaborative Visual Arts teacher to join our school team in the Creative Arts faculty in January 2025.
The ideal candidate will have strong drawing and painting skills as well as an ability to work in 3D. All teachers at ICS Milan are expected to effectively develop and deliver the curriculum to excellent standards.
Teaching responsibilities:

• Plan and prepare learning activities and guide students towards the achievement of curriculum objectives
• Use a range of instructional techniques and media consistent with available resources and student needs and capabilities
• Expand the students' use of individual and collaborative strategies to generate concepts and ideas
• Incorporate new technologies and tools in the creative process
• Teach students how to identify elements of art and design and apply them to create concepts
• Further the students' knowledge of visual arts and media through art theory and history
• Develop an aesthetic understanding and appreciation that allows students to make qualitative judgments about art
• Enable students to create a functional portfolio of their art works
• Plan, coordinate and prepare art displays and exhibitions for the school and community
• Evaluate each student's performance on a continual basis
• Prepare evaluative student reports
• Ensure the required standards of classroom management and student behaviour are met

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts or equivalent
• Qualified teaching certificate/licensure appropriate for grade level and subject area
• Solid working knowledge of the concepts, activities and techniques related to teaching the Visual Arts at the required level
• Strong foundation in classroom management

Essential qualities:

• Positive, creative, collaborative leader
• Committed to ensuring high standards of teaching and learning
• Flexible, resilient, supportive team player
• Passionate about learning
• Effective communicator
• Diplomatic, proactive, problem solver
• Interculturally aware with well developed interpersonal skills
• Well organized and efficient
• Able to meet deadlines

Safeguarding Statement:

ICS Milan is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.

The school has four campuses throughout the Milan area:

• ICS Symbiosis
  - Viale Ortles, 36
• ICS Tenca
  - Via Tenca, 2
• ICS Colletta
  - Via Colletta, 27
• ICS Milano2
  • Strada di Spina ang. Via Fratelli Cervi, Segrate (MI)

ICS Milan offers an international curriculum driven by a desire for excellence in working methods and collaborative learning. The school is a centre for educational innovation built upon the fundamental principle of education as a preparation for playing an active and successful role within the international community.
ICS Milan believes in teaching students to embrace creativity, responsibility, respect, diversity, compassion and shared values. Students are invited to develop a sound knowledge base and to reflect on and reassess their surroundings from a variety of perspectives.

Curriculum

ICS Milan offers a stimulating learning journey which is defined by a rich and well-structured curriculum that integrates the following frameworks:
EARLY YEARS

• The British Early Years Foundation Stage, a play-based framework, featuring the learning and development goals for young children from birth to five years.

PRIMARY SCHOOL

• The Cambridge Primary Programme, covering English and maths.
• The IPC - International Primary Curriculum, covering the topic-based subjects (science, social studies, geography, history, art and international mindedness).
• National recommendations for the curriculum as established by the Italian Ministry of Education for the Italian language and culture programme. In the 2016/17 academic year, ICS Milan was granted officially recognised school status (parità).

SECONDARY SCHOOL
ICS Secondary School has been designed to offer the IB Programme of the International Baccalaureate:

• Middle Years Programme for students from 11 to 16 years old.
• IB Diploma programme 17-18 years old.

As a Scuola Paritaria, our students have the flexibility to move between the Italian and international curriculum, opting to complete the Scuola Media and sit the Licenza Media exams with us, and move back to the Italian system for Liceo, or, to continue with us to complete their Scuola Superiore studies in 4 years alongside the IB, MYP and DP.

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