Step 2: Review Associate

Gez Hayden of Search Associates

Gez Hayden registers with his branch of Search new-to-Search candidates, presently serving and/or wishing to serve in IB-system international schools, currently resident outside the United States, Canada, the UK and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

PO Box 132 Chiang Mai 50000 Thailand Email: gezhayden@searchassociates-ib.org Skype: gezhayden Tel: + 66 53 844668 Fax: :+ 66 53 844261

Gez does not register IB candidates currently resident in the United States, Canada, the UK and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Gez Hayden’s candidates might be a classroom or subject teacher with or without a responsibility post, covering one or more of the age 3-18 PYP, MYP and/or Diploma range. You might also be a qualified IB workshop leader, Trainer-Trainer, Head, Deputy, or Principal.

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 has been fortunate to develop 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. Two are IB Diploma graduates, and this trio has experienced PYP, MYP and Diploma education.

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.

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