HIS Employment

Employment at HIS

Position Opening: HIS is seeking a part-time Elementary Music Teacher for the Sapporo Campus.

If you are interested in employment for the 2013-2014 academic school year, please send as email attachments (pdf attachments or Word documents) a cover letter, current resume with references, and letters of recommendation to the Head of School, Barry Ratzliff, at bratzliff@his.ac.jp. Please label file names with the applicant's last name.

As an international school, HIS seeks teachers who hold a valid teaching certificate, have experience teaching in international schools, and have experience teaching in their grade and subject area. HIS is an International Primary Curriculum and International Middle Years Curriculum school. The Advanced Placement program is a defining part of the high school curriculum.

We look for teachers who bring a collaborative spirit to work with colleagues, willing to work with students with diverse backgrounds, interested in participating in school activities and sports, and ready to be a part of the helping HIS achieve its goals in areas of curriculum.

We have many applicants each year and cannot respond personally to all of them; we will respond to candidates who most closely meet our potential needs and we will keep those candidates' resumes on file. The HIS salary and benefits package is competitive within Japan and Asia.

Hokkaido is an exceptionally beautiful place to live, and many of our teachers enjoy outdoor recreation including hiking, camping, fishing, and winter sports including skiing and snowboarding.

HIS Curricular Commitments
As a professional learning community, HIS has incorporated the following aspects of education as defining components of who we are. Incoming teachers are expected to be professional upholders of these commitments through ongoing professional development in these areas and through instructional methodology and participation that incorporates and supports these agreements.

HIS is committed to:

Being a data-informed school which seeks to improve student achievement through the use of in-house and external data collections.
Providing greater learning opportunities through multiage classrooms.
Supporting the individual needs of students through differentiated instruction.
Providing well-rounded and highly professional units of study through collaborative planning.
Maintaining a professional staff that is integrally involved in the ongoing process of curricular development.
The implementation of the International Primary Curriculum (IPC) as the cornerstone of collaborative instruction.
The alignment of the secondary program with AP and AP offerings.
Offering students academic challenges through the existence of “Honors Level” work in each secondary class.
Providing support to English language learners through the integration of ELL instructional techniques and collaborative planning with the ELL department and the creation of “Developing” work in each class.
Teaching reading with the 7 Keys to Comprehension as presented through the PD of Susan Zimmerman and in her book, Mosaic of Thought. (added 1/22/11)
The integration and mainstreaming of ELL students into the classroom with collaborative support from ELL teachers.