Infield Mentor Trainer - Chorley

Job summary

Teacher Trainers are lead support level individual contributors, responsible for ensuring that in-residence missionaries receive effective training by leading teachers, conducting individual and group trainings, and facilitating ongoing improvement and coaching of teacher performance.

Responsibilities

• Trains and provides ongoing evaluation and development of teachers and missionaries
• Provides individual coaching and continuing in-service training of teachers through leading weekly meetings
• Provides teachers with materials and policy information
• Observes and evaluate missionaries and teachers
• Facilitates opportunities for teacher improvement according to needs
• Assists the Manager of Training in training new teachers prior to classroom experience
• Ensures teachers understand and effectively teach approved MTC curriculum
• Leads in establishing updates or new MTC curriculum
• Fills in as a classroom teacher when needed
• Leads in advocating for missionary well-being
• Evaluates missionary experience and performance
• Ensures the well-being of each missionary
• Leads teachers in providing for the individual needs of missionaries
• Leads teachers in creating an ideal learning environment

Qualifications

• 6 months experience as an MTC teacher
• Must be a returned missionary
• Must be fluent in a non-native language (except for English or ESL area assignment)
• Demonstrates knowledge of MTC language learning strategies and methodologies
• Must have a solid understanding of MTC training principles, demonstrate problem-solving and organizational abilities, and have exceptional training competence
• Must communicate effectively
• Demonstrates the ability to handle pressure well
• Must have technology skills to adequately function in the MTC environment
• Must have exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills
• Must have a solid understanding of Preach My Gospel
• Demonstrates encouraging attitude, proactivity and self-motivation
• Experience having served as a missionary

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