Early Years Teacher

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
September 2025

10 May 2025

**Job overview**:
We are seeking to appoint a passionate, dedicated and motivated **Kindergarten Teacher** starting from September 2025

As a Kindergarten teacher at BES Milan you will play a key role in fulfilling our mission to provide a holistic and engaging education to our students. You will plan, implement, and evaluate learning opportunities for your students and work with your colleagues in a positive and constructive manner.

**Teaching and Learning**
- Promote the ‘mission’ and philosophy of the school, ensuring that children are working towards being true global citizens;
- Be flexible and adjust to the needs of the school, actively contributing to its development plans and growth;
- Implement agreed policies and developments;
- Demonstrate thorough curriculum knowledge, teach, and assess effectively;
- Meet requirements for the assessment, evaluation, and recording of students’ development;
- Use the student tracking and monitoring processes to advance children’s learning in line with the school’s aspirations and priorities;
- Take responsibility for and contribute to professional development;
- Effectively communicate the school's key messages and values, be an ambassador for our school at all times.
- Planning and Classroom Management:

- Organise the classroom and learning resources to create a dynamic learning environment;
- Plan, prepare and present lessons that motivate students and that cater to the range of needs and abilities of the students in the class as well as ensuring the course of study follows ministry curriculum guidelines;
- Maintain good behaviour management in the classroom, promote a positive attitude to learning;
- Offer all students equal opportunities to learn and maintain an environment in which no student is exposed to discriminatory behaviour;
- Provide feedback to administrators and parents/guardians on a student’s progress through regular progress reports, meetings with parents/guardians including daily communication when appropriate;
- Liaise with colleagues;
- Be flexible and collaborative when planning and working within the school teams;
- Support the life of the school beyond the classroom;
- Be committed to participating in co-curricular activities;
- Support all school events such as productions and assemblies.

**Your profile**

**Education & Training**
- Bachelor of Education degree;
- Teachers’ Certificate or international teaching qualification, in good standing;
- Qualified to teach Kindergarten children;
- Native English Speaker.

**Experience**
- Proven experience teaching in Early Years;
- Demonstrates creativity and a passion for teaching and a strong work ethic;
- Experience with innovative teaching and learning;
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, problem-solving, and mediation skills;
- Commitment to the mission and vision of the school, the academic and co-curricular directions;
- Be enthusiastic, energetic, and able to nurture unique learning experiences for students;
- Able to thrive in a collaborative, flexible and supportive team environment;
- Commitment to safeguarding and equality;
- Commitment to maintaining confidentiality at all times;
- Independent school experience, and coaching/extracurricular experience is an asset.

**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 knowledge and skills for a smooth transition to the BES bilingual programme.

**BES**, founded in 1999, integrates the **Italian Ministerial programme** with the **Primary Years Programme (PYP) of the International Baccalaureate**, offering bilingual education of excellence with a global perspective. At BES every student is a unique and special individual engaged in hands-on, minds-on learning activities in line with the constructivist approach.

The stimulating learning landscapes, designed by the internationally renowned architect Rosan Bosch, give students the opportunity to foster a life-long love of learning. The school hosts a permanent Bruno Munari® art labor