Ib Psychology Teacher

**San Silvestre School**
Peru**Salary**:

Competitive Package**Job type**:

Full Time, Fixed Term15 July 2025**Job overview**:
Join Our Team as an IB Psychology Teacher at San Silvestre School

Are you an enthusiastic, inspiring teacher with a love for Psychology and a passion to share this with your students? Do you create a nurturing learning environment where everyone can reach their full potential? If so, we have a fantastic opportunity for you

At San Silvestre, you will work alongside and learn from experienced practitioners. We welcome teachers at various stages of their careers, whether you are recently qualified or have many years of teaching experience. We are committed to your professional development within our department and the wider school community.

What We’re Looking For:

- Experience: Whether you are a Newly Qualified Teacher or have a high level of teaching experience, we want to hear from you.
- Collaborators: You can build strong professional relationships and work well in a team.
- Inspirers: You motivate and inspire students and staff to achieve their full potential.
- Energetic and Positive: You have a ‘can-do’ attitude and bring energy to the classroom.
- Confident Leaders: You have strong career aspirations and the confidence to pursue them.

If you meet these criteria and are ready to make a difference in the lives of our students, we’d love to hear from you

A member of the Latin American Heads’ Conference (LAHC), Round Square, and the Girls’ Schools Association, San Silvestre is one of the leading independent schools in South America. Founded in 1932, San Silvestre is an all-girls, not-for-profit organisation with approximately 1400 pupils, aged from 3 to 18 years.

The educational ethos at San Silvestre is one of care and commitment, providing a stimulating environment in which the needs of the girls are met in every dimension of school life: academic, sporting, cultural, artistic, and social. San Silvestre is rooted in history and tradition whilst embracing pedagogical innovation.

Why San Silvestre?

Pioneering Education: Choose an environment that encourages innovation and values forward-thinking educational practices. Our commitment to the challenge of growth creates an inspiring and motivating space for both educators and students.

Holistic Development: You'll play a key role in shaping the future by nurturing not only academic excellence but also the social, emotional, and creative dimensions of young minds. Care is our trademark

Community: Join a vibrant community where every voice is heard and valued. Collaborate with dedicated educators, engaged parents, and enthusiastic students who collectively contribute to a culture of growth and exploration.

Further information can be found in the attached job description.

Three professional references will be sought, at least one of which must be from your present employer.

**About**San Silvestre School**:
**San Silvestre School**
- Av. Santa Cruz 1251, Miraflores
Lima
15074
Peru
- +51 241 3334**Our Philosophy**

San Silvestre provides a stimulating, happy and caring atmosphere in which each pupil is encouraged to achieve her potential with confidence and self-esteem.

Having had the full opportunities of an integral formation, a San Silvestre pupil can assume her role in society as a valuable person capable of contributing positively to whatever environment in which she is involved.

**Ethos**

A happy school, with high academic standards, San Silvestre School for Girls provides an environment which fosters individual goals and achievements while providing a friendly and caring atmosphere throughout the school. The dedicated staff are committed to providing a stimulating environment in which the needs of the girls are met in academic, sporting, cultural, artistic, technological, communication, social, civic and spiritual areas. Each pupil, from the Nursery 3 year-olds to the Secondary Section 18 year-olds, is encouraged to compete with herself and this is possible in an atmosphere where she can grow in confidence.

As a British-Peruvian school, it is absolutely essential that we transmit the virtues of both cultures, strengthening pupils’ individual skills and encouraging all efforts aimed at their overall development. Academic training, learning languages, social commitment and self-competition are some of the goals achieved through consistent encouragement and monitoring from a very early age.

**“I am, I can, I ought, I will”**
That is our motto, which is a true reflection of the philosophy of life that we try to transmit to the girls who have been entrusted to us. Our goal is to ensure that our students leave school with a high level of self-esteem, a good measure of common sense and the ability to stretch themselves, to commit themselves to become actively involved in their community and to assume the responsibility for their own actions. Our girls realise that through their own work they can achieve personal dev