Position:AP Psychology Teacher
On board time:August 2024
Location:Ningbo city,Zhejiang province

The Teaching
The International Department has a roll of approximately 270 students in grades 10
through 12 and is a stand-alone center within Ningbo Foreign Language School, a public
high school with approximately 2000 students.
Our students are fantastic! They are highly motivated, outgoing, well-mannered and co operative. Their parents are very supportive and encourage high achievement. Places in the
Center are competitive, so we admit the best students from Ningbo city and surrounding
areas. All students are Chinese nationals and intend to study internationally, and our
instruction is 100% in English.
Class size varies (currently, from 6 through 31). We emphasize a wide curriculum with a lot
of choice, and so are open to smaller class sizes that many other schools might consider
unviable.
Relationships with the host school are very positive. The school wants to provide conditions
in which expat teachers can get on with teaching to high standards – two examples: all
classrooms have smartboards, and the Center has a full coffee shop that would rival a
Starbucks for facilities – best of all, free coffee for teachers.
Ningbo Foreign Language School offers above average students, facilities, salary and
benefits; in return excellent teaching is expected.
The culture within the Center is very much one of everybody cooperating and working
towards a common aim – for students to achieve the best results they can, so as to go to the
best university/college for them. The informal motto of the Center is We are all in this
together.

The working year and working week
As we are a public school, we follow the government school dates; but foreign teachers get
the same number of holidays as a teacher in an international school would.
A working week is 45 x 40-minute periods, and a teacher will teach up to 26 of these
periods per week.
A teacher might be on one of two shifts – each of about 4 ½ days a week:
 Sunday lunchtime to Thursday
 Monday to early-afternoon Friday
Teachers will stay on the same shift for the semester, and hopefully the year. We do not do
split shifts or on-call work.
A further option is to teach evening classes on one or two days within your shift. In this
situation, each evening class generates a 6-period credit. This means that, for example,
teaching two periods on a Monday night means that the teacher would start late on Monday
and Tuesday (or finish early on some other day).
Our working week may seem complicated, but once you get your head around it, it is
flexible and can suit people in ways that benefit them and their individual working style. In
all cases we need to work within timetabling requirements, but we do our best to
accommodate teachers’ requests.
A free shuttle van is provided by the school for all teaching arrangements.

The Program
Our key aim is to prepare students for successful university careers and for life overseas, in
part developed through an international style of teaching that inspires critical thinking,
debate and application of learning.
We teach grades 10, 11 and 12. There is a comprehensive selection of courses including 24
Advanced Placement (AP) courses, IGCSE and A Levels, as well as Pre-AP courses. In a
parallel program, students study Chinese curriculum courses in preparation for Zhejiang
Provincial Xuekao exams.
We are fully committed to a comprehensive humanities education and so several elective
courses are offered including Human Geography, US History, World History, Economics and
Psychology. These courses emphasize connections between social studies and literature
while fostering a capacity for analytical writing, responsible research and critical thinking.
To allow students to study the full breadth of AP we also offer the full AP Studio Art
program as well as more common AP courses such as AP Calculus, Environmental Science,
Physics, Chemistry and Biology, AP Computer Science Principles, AP Computer Science A
and AP Capstone.
We are accredited by the College Board for AP and Pre-AP subjects, and by Oxford AQA as
an examination center
Working closely with teaching staff, the 7 bilingual Chinese staff from our College
Counselling Centre assist students in the college search and selection process, as well as
providing counselling on individual application questions, essay writing and a myriad of
related topics. In addition, the counsellors are responsible for inviting admission officers
and representatives from a wide range of international universities to NBFLS for individual
and group presentations. During the previous academic year over 200 colleges came to our
school, giving our students a great opportunity to interact with Admission Officers from
colleges worldwide.

The Campus
The campus is outstanding – it is just outside Ningbo city (about 15 km). There are
extensive gardens, paved walks, ponds, streams and sitting places. The view is to tree-clad
hills and glimpses of Dongqian Lake, a famed local tourist spot.
Teachers travel to and from work by a variety of methods. The Center runs a free shuttle
bus door-to-door (or close to it), and teachers may also choose to travel by public bus (USD
0.75), China’s version of Uber, Didi (USD6.00), by bicycle, or by e-bike. Because the school is
out of town, we are flexible about provision for personal business during work time.