Why work at Wheaton International Christian Academy?
As an international online school, offering full-time live education across the full UK curriculum, we are already attracting worldwide attention, and we expect to see teacher applications from across the globe as well.
You will see the timing of our School Day and the length of our School Year. Of course, our teachers do not spend time travelling to or from work; indeed, this may be the first time in your career where you might be considering a job application without having to move house. Working for WICA, you don’t even have to move country!
Of course, we know that teaching well, marking well and planning well makes our profession a demanding one, and so we want to give teachers as much control over their time as possible. That is one reason why our teaching hours are concentrated into a 4-hour day, so that staff can decide how best to manage the remaining 20. And yet our staff are on full-time contracts and receive full-time pay.
We are a school designed and built by teachers, for teachers who just want to teach. We know what gets in the way of that calling, and we ‘manage out’ those blockages so that our motivated staff can see our motivated children thrive.
We have a deep commitment to family time and family values, and are passionate about our staff and students being able to enjoy the very best that an engaging education can offer, without its unnecessary pressures, bureaucracies and ‘time-theft’.
As an international online school, we are not subject to OfSTED inspection and are genuinely able to enjoy the reality of positive and professional self-review alongside partners such as Cambridge International. We believe profoundly in inter-dependent teamwork and mutual trust, strong support, the sharing of expertise and a sense of service ; in this way, we seek to foster a deep commitment to provide the very best education possible for every child in our care.
We also have no buildings to build or maintain, no breaktimes or lunch duties to allocate, no furniture to buy or repair and no traffic delays to manage. And we give parents back the major role in the upbringing of their children which many fear has been stolen from them, while opening their children’s minds to a truly international and technologically-rich future.
WICA may not be rocket science, but so many teachers have been told that the basic realities of schooling cannot be fundamentally changed. As a result, many teachers leave the profession, disillusioned by the things that get in the way of the very best teaching and learning.
At WICA, we think differently, and we think creatively, so that obstacles are removed rather than crashed into. If that is the way you think too, you might just be the person we are looking for.