High School Teacher -Humanities Biology -Fixed Term (Maternity)
Green School New Zealand, New Zealand
Job Description
What does happiness, sustainability, optimism, community, compassion and a commitment to New Zealand, and the planet, have in common? If you answered Green School New Zealand you may be one of the teachers who will help us change the paradigm of learning. We are recruiting qualified experienced High School educators, and presently have fixed term maternity cover leave. (Full Time: Fixed Term: Term 4 2021 - end of Term 2 2022). As Green School expands, we are looking to increase our team so this is a great opportunity to join our community and work towards the possibility of future positions.
At Green School we are educating tomorrow’s environmental leaders. We embrace high quality learning, within a growth mindset, that fosters a connection between what we learn, and how we learn, with care and compassion. We endeavour to find joy everyday within our community and regeneration within our connection to the environment and the land. Our unique environmental campus, or village, in the rural area just outside New Plymouth is a living, learning, green community, where we work hard, challenge our thinking, and ask compelling questions of ourselves and our learners.
If you have experience and training in Biology/Humanities and want to thrive with purpose, we look forward to speaking with you.
Requirements
You must registered as a teacher by the Teaching Council of New Zealand, and have a current practising certificate. Candidates must be able to live and work in New Zealand.
Benefits
- Being part of a global group of schools that focus on sustainability
- Be part of a team inventing progressive education with a purpose, while enjoying the freedom and independence to engage in new learning methods, projects and experiment with your ideas.
- A beautiful site with undulating hillside, regenerated native bush, natural amphitheatres, a river and bordering the Egmont National Park which is close to Taranaki Maunga.