Full Time, Part Time, Permanent

01/02/2025

31 January 2025

You Can Make a Difference:
Seeking a certified Learning Support Specialist with experience working with students with mild learning differences. This role may be part-time or full-time depending on your needs, and requires fluent English.
Responsibilities of the Learning Support team members:

• Work with students (including students with mild diagnosed learning differences and gifted learners) to develop individual learning plans based on their needs and goals. About 15-20% of our students have learning differences including ADHD, dyslexia/dysgraphia, and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
• Communicate learning plans and annual reports with teachers and parents.
• As needed, support in classrooms, in small groups in the afternoons, or one-on-one.
• Help train teachers on common strategies to support students with learning differences in class (adaptive teaching).
• Work with others in the Student Support Team to maintain records and coordinate support.

What we require:

• Degree or certification in a field related to learning support or special education
• At least 2 years' experience working with students with mild to moderate learning differences (especially ADHD, dyslexia, ASD)
High level of professionalism and communication skills in English (fluent)

What makes you stand out:

• Passion for progressive education
• Asset-based focus
• Ability to network with other members of the Student Support Team as well as the teaching staff
• Willingness to lead professional learning sessions for staff on common accommodations and/or modifications
• Interest in current educational research and practices

What we offer:

• Working with other passionate educators in a values-driven environment
• A well-integrated Student Support Team
• Open-minded and supportive school management
• Further training opportunities
• A well-developed funding concept
• Access to employer-supported childcare
• Opportunities for your high school-aged children to attend our school
• Relocation support, accident insurance, and employer contributions to Swiss retirement fund
• A unique village-like campus home in the heart of the Swiss alps, located within an expansive ski resort

If you are a trained, creative and sustainable person with a sense of humor and calmness, and if you can work in a team, we look forward to getting to know you.

The Ecole d’Humanité, an international boarding high school, is located in Hasliberg Goldern, just off the rail line between Interlaken and Lucerne. Surrounded by the awe-inspiring peaks of the Bernese Oberland, our international village for living, learning, and growing is home to children and adults from some 25 different countries. The stunning natural setting provides both a wholesome learning environment and exceptional opportunities for hiking, skiing, climbing, and other outdoor activities.
The academic program at the Ecole aims to promote meaningful understanding rather than surface knowledge. Students take only three academic subjects per trimester. This allows them to concentrate on each one with special intensity. Small classes (student-teacher ratio is 5:1) allow for individualized instruction and demand active participation.
To balance the intensive academic program in the morning students devote their afternoons to the arts, sports, and practical work, selecting from some eighty possible courses. Blacksmithing, skiing or snowboarding, woodworking, painting, pottery, rock-climbing, the annual Shakespeare production, French theater, classical, jazz, folk, and pop music ensembles, instrumental and voice lessons, gardening, and animal husbandry are just a few of the fields students can choose to explore and then concentrate on in their afternoons.
The Ecole d’Humanité offers both Swiss and American academic programs. The American Program leads to a High School Diploma and includes preparation for the College Board SAT exams, for which the Ecole is an official testing center. Students can also prepare for exams leading to the AP International Diploma (see facing page) and entrance to universities around the world. Our Swiss Program offers primary and normal secondary school diplomas which are recognized throughout Switzerland. Older students can prepare for university via the Swiss Matura exams or the College Board AP exams, or they can take courses that increase their chances of winning a place in a demanding apprenticeship or a vocational college.