Art Teacher

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
September 2025

28 February 2025

**Job overview**:
We are seeking to appoint a passionate, dedicated and motivated Art Teacher, who will join our growing Middle and High School Team, starting from September 2025

**Key Roles and Responsibilities**
- Teach Artistic content, such as visual arts and art history, in English, and contribute to extra-curricular and other activities;
- Promote the ‘mission’ and philosophy of the school, ensuring that students are working towards being global citizens;
- Ensure that planning, preparation, recording, assessment and reporting are of the highest quality and meet the varying learning and social needs of students;
- Create a classroom environment that is inclusive and where all students feel comfortable expressing their views, opinions and needs;
- Manage effectively classroom behavior;
- Demonstrate thorough curriculum knowledge, teach and assess effectively and take active responsibility for student progress;
- Communicate effectively to the school’s stakeholders, being an ambassador for the school at all times;
- Take personal responsibility for professional development;
- Contribute to curriculum planning and development;
- Be flexible and adjust to the needs of the school, actively contributing to its development;
- Ensure school policies are understood and followed consistently;
- Supervise students during the school day outside of the classroom;
- Be flexible and adjust to the needs of the school, actively contributing to its development and growth.

**Education & Training**
- Master’s Degree in Art (or related field);
- Qualified Teacher Status or international teaching qualification;
- Qualified to teach children of Secondary school age;
- Few / many years of proven success in teaching and assessing mathematics and physics in various curricula;
- Knowledge of the IB curriculum would be a plus;
- Mother tongue English or C2 level;
- Extensive knowledge of Italian would be considered a plus.

**Experience**
- Prior experience in an international school environment;
- A positive attitude that inspires staff and students;
- Ability to lead by example and inspire colleagues to follow;
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, problem-solving, negotiation, and mediation skills;
- Care for understanding and supporting the experience of all students in the secondary school;
- Capacity for managing various projects and prioritising demands;
- Strong classroom management skills;
- Ability to deal calmly and effectively with emotional situations;
- Excellent oral and written communications skills;
- Good team builder with leadership skills to oversee progress, guide activities, and steer a team towards achieving objectives;
- Evidence of commitment to continuous professional development;
- Commitment to safeguarding and equality;
- Commitment to maintaining confidentiality.

**The school**

The **Bilingual European School (BES)** is the first and foremost bilingual school in Milan, with a curriculum spanning from pre-school up to high school. Our students start their education with a pre-school English full immersion, then the succeeding programs (Primary, Middle and High Schools) are all based on a 50% - 50% integrated bilingual model (English / Italian), terminating with a double degree (Italian / International) in the last senior year, to allow students to enter the best universities in Italy and the world.

The BES Primary, Middle and High Schools are accredited by the Italian Ministry of Education (Italian Paritaria) and by international education organizations (International Baccalaureate, Blyth Academy), teaching an integrated and well balanced Italian and international curriculum, administering in-house all the Italian national exams and international certificates, providing learning and wellbeing support to students and teaching both knowledge and skills needed to succeed in elite Italian as well as international schools and universities.

**Safeguarding Statement**:
**About**The British American Pre-School and Bilingual European School (BAPS-BES)**:
**The British American Pre-School and Bilingual European School (BAPS-BES)**
- Via Val Cismon 9, Milano
- 20162
- Italy

+39 6611 7449

**The British American Pre-School** and the **Bilingual European School** prepare children aged 2 to 14 to be the travelers of the world, providing an outstanding educational journey that successfully lays the groundwork to meet the challenges of tomorrow, developing their natural talents both in English and Italian.

**BAPS**, founded in 1987, offers a full immersion English programme that combines the inquiry-based and child-centered educational philosophy with the **Early Years Foundation Stage** curriculum (for the first three age groups) and **Key Stage One** (for Reception children). BAPS full immersion English approach centred on the “play based learning” and the “learning by doing” provides children with the necessary kn