Year 1 Homeroom Teacher

Job Openings**:Year 1 Homeroom Teacher (Teach everything)**

Location**:Kuala Lumpur**

Terms**:1-year contract**

Salary**:RM 2,800 - RM 3,500**

Start Date**:April/May 2025**

Work Arrangement**:On-site**

**About us**:
Arus Academy is an education social enterprise specialising in creating high-quality education solutions for students and teachers in Malaysia. Arus is constantly searching for ways to make education more accessible and impactful through systemic and ground-up approaches. We advocate for five main literacy areas, which are STEAM education, financial literacy, media and information literacy, social and emotional learning, and global citizenship education.

In our mission to empower today’s problem solvers, we have been running year-long school programmes with students from Buku Jalanan Chow Kit.

**Main Responsibilities**:
**Year 1 Homeroom Teacher**is an associate role in Arus.An associate at Arus is a growth-driven professional who excels as an **effective educator and a resourceful project and outreach coordinator**. They effectively coordinate projects with an educator's insight, ensuring the program's content and delivery are thoughtfully executed. They also proactively identify opportunities to seamlessly integrate their passion into existing and new programs in Arus. Their adaptability is evident in how they embrace innovative ways of content creation and delivery through exploring technology, experimenting with pedagogy and andragogy and continuous peer learning support.

A Year 1 Homeroom Teacher is expected to support in, and not limited to the following tasks:
**Effective educator**

At Arus, we believe that every member, regardless of role, should embody the spirit of an educator. This entails a commitment to ongoing learning and effective teaching of knowledge to others.
- **Design and develop interactive and engaging learning experience**and activities for both in-person and online delivery. This task may involve writing creative content such as learning modules, newsletters, articles, websites including effective use of images, videos and graphics as well as presenting on social media. The delivery of this task requires organising the materials in a logical and effective manner.
- **Deliver and facilitate impactful student and teachers programmes**through purposeful activity design, thoughtful and clear instructions and meaningful assessments.
- **Model REACH (Respect, Efficient, Adventurous, Collaboration, Honest) values towards others**through personal leadership.
- **Research and study content** relevant or integrable to your project and develop a specific area of knowledge or skill in which you excel.

**Resourceful project and outreach coordinator**

A resourceful coordinator is someone who adds value to the team by skillfully coordinating internal and external resources to achieve project goals and make sure their work is dynamic, relevant, and impactful.
- **Support and organise** yearly and semester curriculum planning for Year 1 students.
- **Collaborate with teachers**to ensure optimised planning and coordination.
- **Conduct regular check-ins** **and class observations**with other teachers to continuously improve teaching and learning experiences.
- **Monitor and evaluate** students' progress by tracking the progress of students meaningfully and timely throughout each semester
- **Conduct analysis and action plans** with relevant teachers based on progress reports of students.

**Key Measures of Success**:

- Students’ academic and behaviour mastery.
- Student progress and outcome.
- Teacher’s professional development.

**Expected skills**:

- **Teaching skills**

Passionate about teaching and creating meaningful learning experiences.

Passionate about growing into a strong and effective teacher.
- **Compassionate and professional**

Able to work well with children. Respect diversity and model integrity. Interested in working with young children. Plus points for prior experience teaching/volunteering in education.
- **Growth mindset**

Strong desire to learn new things and grow professionally. Willingness to learn new skills such as STEM, financial literacy, media literacy & Global Citizenship.
- **Strong communication skills, both written and oral**

Able to quickly and easily express oneself in a way that's also easy for students to comprehend.
- **Cultural competency and sensitivity**

Able to understand, make and execute inclusive plans for cultural diversity. Commitment to the belief that every student deserves quality & meaningful education.
- **Ability to build and maintain relationships**

Able to provide prompt responses and communicate compassionately and clearly.
- **Excellent interpersonal skills**

Able to connect to and model Arus’s REACH values (Respect, Efficient, Adventurous, Collaboration, Honesty). Believe that every teacher can learn and adopt new strategies to meet students’ needs.
- **Ability to work independently and as part of a team**

Able