Foundation Primary Years

**About Boundless Education**

Boundless Education believes that our personnel are our biggest assets. We ensure that we offer our team a safe and secure environment in which to work.

**Vision**

Our vision is to empower a community of active and impactful learners.

**Mission**

We prepare children for an unknown future;
- By providing a transformational learning system that follows a child to any Boundless destination.
- By leveraging cultural immersion and experiential learning, to lay the foundation for creativity, innovation and connectivity to the world.
- By our educators working as collaborative mentors with our children, guiding them along personalised learning paths.
- By valuing parents, carers and the community as key partners in a child’s education.

**Values informing education**

Four core values guide all decisions at Boundless Education and influence our approach to teaching and learning:

- **Be Bold. **A growth mindset embraces challenges. Take risks, make mistakes, and learn from them.
- **Innovate**. Creativity is at the core of everything we do. Take initiative to find solutions.
- **Connect. **The best results are reached through collaboration and building connections. Respect yourself, nature and others.
- **Resilience. **Emotional well-being develops balance, concentration and empathy. Empower yourself through mindfulness.

***NOTE: At this time, we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa**

**Foundation Primary Years Educator (Ages 7-12)**

This is a full-time position. **We are looking for a Foundation Primary Years (Ages 7-12) Educator to join our team starting **August 2023 in Tuscany, Italy**. Online training would begin in August, and in-person duties would begin in September.**

A key responsibility of our educators is the duty of care they provide for our explorers in all areas. Learning opportunities happen all the time and our educators are responsible for actively facilitating these opportunities. The educators coach our explorers through phases of interdisciplinary units of learning, guiding and monitoring their progress along personal learning pathways.

**Primary responsibilities**
- Duty of care of all children
- Promote a sense of community and belonging within all classes and explorer groups
- Foster positive self-image and holistic wellbeing of all children, encompassing their physical, social, and emotional health
- Plan lessons in an interdisciplinary manner, incorporating local experiences in each destination
- Create authentic learning experiences and activities using the Boundless Education Questing framework
- Advise and establish goals with children and support them in reaching those goals
- Monitor and assess progress through routine use of verbal and written feedback linked directly to learning objectives
- Ensure that the learned curriculum and taught curriculum are aligned with the written curriculum
- Maximise use of educational technology tools to further child’s learning
- Provide multiple weekly updates to parents via Magic Moments or other similar platform
- Find and highlight a common thread that connects different Boundless destinations
- Take the time to connect with each individual child and provide a more personalised journey
- Provide and lead three conferences within a 3-month cohort
- Collect data to file for end of cohort Growth Trackers

**Compensation & Benefits**
- Competitive salary
- 9 weeks off including public holidays, or legal minimum in your region if greater
- Global health and dental insurance (subsidised)
- Boundless Education tuition paid 70% by Boundless.
- Currently Boundless Education offers education for early years and primary years (1 year old to Grade 6)

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree (Master’s degree or higher preferred).
- Minimum of three years full-time classroom experience.
- Experience working with inquiry based educational programs.
- Experience teaching in collaborative teams.
- Experience working with culturally and linguistically diverse learners.
- Knowledge of:

- Child safety and protection practices
- Age-appropriate psychological and social/emotional needs of children
- Research-supported instructional techniques.
- A range of assessment strategies and learning activities.
- Subject knowledge and skills
- Ability to:
- Collaboratively plan and manage engaging learning experiences
- Design and conduct instruction addressing a diversity of learner readiness
- Anticipate and adapt to opportunities which may arise as ‘teachable moments’
- Create innovative methods for embedding those connections in instruction
- Be adaptable: Boundless Life is growing quickly, so we’re looking for team members who can adapt to changing landscapes
- Skilled in:
- Communicating clearly and effectively in both oral and written language.
- Establishing and maintaining positive, respectful relationships with students, staff, families and the surrounding community
- Balancing the