Job-Alike
STANDARD B: The Induction Stage
This Job Alike is an opportunity for education professionals with similar job responsibilities to share challenges and identify opportunities to improve HR management practices related to the following Search Associate Induction Standards:
Communicating expectations about professional behaviour and teaching practices clearly and respectfully
Ensuring new employees are properly enculturated to their new working and living environment
Onboarding is inclusive of family members
New employees are given sufficient guidance, assistance, and resources to carry out their contracted obligations.
Language
English & Chinese Concurrent Session
What is a job-alike?
It is an opportunity to promote collaboration among education professionals with similar job responsibilities to enhance their craft, share knowledge, and network regionally. These highly intensive learning sessions provide an opportunity to share resources, information and engage in discussions and planning that will immediately benefit their schools.
Facilitators
Bill Turner
Dr. Barry Drake
Gez Hayden
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Bill Turner has over 33 years of experience in international education. His three Headteacher/Principal positions cover two Middle Eastern countries and the British system, the IB and American APs. Bill began his career in education in 1982, after graduating from Eton College and earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of East Anglia. After adding a Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) certificate from International House in London, he taught EFL in Sudan, Italy, and London. Having then acquired his Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) from Hertfordshire College of Higher Education he taught English and Drama at Brighton Hill School, Basingstoke, and Durrington High School, Worthing.
Since 1987, Bill has assumed leadership positions: as House Leader; Assistant Head of English and then Department Head of English; and, at the George Ward School in Melksham, Assistant Headteacher, and then Deputy Headteacher. During this period he completed his MEd, his NPQH (National Professional Qualification for Headship), and became a GCSE examiner.
For the past 11 years, Bill has brought his school leadership skills to positions in the Middle East, where he has also become a British Schools in the Middle East (BSME) accredited inspector. From 2010-2014 Bill earned the rating “Outstanding Leadership” in all Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) inspections; this organization is responsible for the growth and quality of private education in Dubai.
As Secondary Headteacher/Deputy Principal at Al Khor International School, Qatar, Bill introduced the school’s first sixth form and increased enrollment by over 300 students. As Middle/High School Principal at GEMS World Academy-Dubai, the GEMS flagship IB World School in the city, he oversaw the authorisation of the IB Diploma. From 2012 until 2016 Bill, as Founding Secondary Head Teacher and School Principal, has been instrumental in the start-up of two sister-schools in Dubai: Kings’ School Al Barsha and Kings’ School Nad Al Sheba.
However, Bill says his greatest learning experience comes from bringing up three boys. He is also a linguist, speaking Italian well and French not quite so well, and a little Arabic. He says he has learnt much of his Arabic from translating road signs whilst stopped at traffic lights.
Bill is supported in his leading of the Dubai Search Fair by his wife Alison, who has been a Primary Head Teacher and School Principal in five schools in the UK, Dubai, and Thailand. Her Primary expertise enables them as a team to cover the 3-18 range in their support of schools and teachers. As a School Head with so many years experience in meeting the recruitment needs of aspirational teachers and aspirational schools, Bill is really excited about building great relationships with all parties and developing this aspect of his professional leadership
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Barry Drake joined Search Associates in 2010 following 40 years teaching and leadership in international schools in Africa, the Middle East, South East and East Asia, including periods in with the United World Colleges in Wales and Hong Kong. Barry was responsible for setting up the Fair in Hong Kong, where he spent the last 18 years of his school-based career. In 2009, Barry was presented with the ECIS Award for the Promotion of International Education. Barry's commitment to international education has been shaped by 26 years of involvement with the IB programmes incorporating over 20 years as an IB History examiner and moderator. Barry also has considerable experience with bilingual, bi-cultural education in the Middle East and China, and has shared his research on culture and education both in workshops and in his published papers. He has a BA in Economics and Modern History, and an MA in Economic History. His Ph.D in Education was awarded by the University of Bath (UK) for his research on pastoral care programmes in international schools. Barry was instrumental in developing comprehensive personal and social education programmes, including University and Careers Guidance, for students in his last two schools. Barry's other major areas of interest lie in the fields of teacher improvement/appraisal policies and in the opportunities for transformational educational offered through service learning. Outside of Search Associates, Barry has recently helped set up the new United World College in China as a senior consultant and Interim Founding Head.
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Gez Hayden organises East Asia (Singapore) and London-January Search Associates Job Fair and conducts international school leadership searches.
Gez's office registers new candidates with International Baccalaureate (IB) experience and who currently work in IB schools or want to do so — except for candidates currently living in the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand. Also, new candidates currently living outside the above countries, planning to attend the East Asia (Singapore) and London-January job fairs, are advised to choose Gez Hayden as their Associate. Gez's candidates include classroom and subject teachers with or without a responsibility post, experienced with the age 3-18 PYP/MYP/Diploma range, IB workshop leaders, Trainer-Trainers, Heads, Deputies, or Principals.
Joining the Search team in 2009, Gez Hayden was born and brought up in the United Kingdom, graduating from the University of Birmingham with a B.A. in modern languages. Before training to teach in the UK, he worked in France and Switzerland, later serving in government schools in the UK as a Department Head.
Gez began his international career in the International School of South Africa in 1990. After gaining his M.Ed. at the University of Bath, UK, in 1995, he moved on to international schools in Thailand and most recently China, where he was involved in implementing the IB Primary Years, Middle Years and Diploma programmes.
As Director of Nanjing International School, China, Gez was successful in leading NIS to become China's first international school authorised to offer all three IB programmes: PYP, MYP and Diploma.
An active member of the international school community, Gez has participated in authorisation and accreditation visits to schools in China, Japan and Australia, representing the International Baccalaureate Organisation, the Council of International Schools and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
For several years, Gez was a member of the Board of the Association of China ad Mongolia International Schools (ACAMIS), where he promoted the development of the ACAMIS programme of professional development for teachers in the China international school network.
Gez is married to Amelia Ren-Hayden, a lawyer and Human Resources Professional, who assists with the work of the Gez Hayden Branch of Search Associates. Gez's three children – all boys - are former IB students, of whom two are IBDP graduates, and all three have experienced PYP, MYP and DP between them.
Gez has broad and varied experience of IB and other international schools, having visited many in the course of his career. He is able to bring the benefit of his understanding of these schools and their programmes to helping candidates and schools he serves.
You will have the opportunity to discuss the following case studies with peers: