Product Design Teacher
ACS International Schools are recruiting a Product Design Teacher to join our Egham campus.
ACS International School Egham is looking for an enthusiastic teacher of Product Design (DT) to teach throughout our Upper School. We are recruiting a teacher with a passion for inspiring students through a concept based, inquiry driven and student focused approach.
ACS Egham is recruiting a Product Design Teacher who is innovative, a problem solver, and a teacher who is able to develop projects proactively.
At ACS Egham International School we offer the IB - an aspirational, global, and modern curriculum that inspires children to become the drivers of their own success.
We’ve been teaching the IB at ACS for over fifty years, and our experience means we know how best to teach it. We know it gets results - and that’s why we offer the IB as our sole offering, orienting the entire school around its optimal delivery.Many of our teachers are IB examiners, meaning they know exactly how to help children to excel
Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Educated to Bachelors degree or international equivalent as a minimum in the relevant subject or a Bachelor of Education
- A teaching qualification (e.g. PGCE/PGDE/QTS/valid Teaching Licence)
- Experience teaching Product Design at Middle and High School level
- A minimum of two years’ post qualifying teaching experience
- Experience teaching IB MYP and DP is advantageous but is not essential
- Strong IT skills (e.g. Apple Teacher qualification)
- Experience of/willingness to integrate technology to improve teaching and learning
- Demonstrable positive and tolerant outlook, enthusiasm for teaching and good understanding of behaviours of the relevant age group
- Fluent in both verbal and written English
- Experience of teaching in an international school is desirable
- Commitment to excellence in education
- Understanding of and commitment to the Mission, Aims and Values of ACS International Schools
- A collaborative approach to team working
- Positive personality, with the ability to judge the appropriate balance of support and challenge that individual young people need in order to thrive.
Benefits of Teaching at ACS:
- Recognising that time is needed to plan, collaborate and provide meaningful feedback to students, teachers at ACS international Schools teach a maximum of 21 hours per week
- Our maximum class size is a manageable maximum of 22 with most classes being smaller than that.
- We are a well-resourced school, enabling us to provide our students and teachers with the resources they need to learn and achieve.
- We take the professional development of our staff seriously and provide ample opportunities and resourcing to support this.
- Working at ACS Egham provides an excellent route into teaching the internationally-recognised, International Baccalaureate programme.
- Employment benefits include: 3 annual personal days, competitive salary, relocation allowance and visa sponsorship*, PMI + Medicash, pension scheme, income protection, life assurance, employee assistance programme, subsidised meals in the canteen, home leave allowance* and access to the gym for a small fee.
Start date: August 2025
SAFEGUARDING
ACS is committed to inclusion across race, gender, faith, identity, and abilities. We believe that diversity helps us to fulfil our purpose, realise our vision and exemplify our values.
ACS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and, as an employee of ACS, you are expected to share this commitment. This position is therefore subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.