Upper Elementary Music Teacher

JOB DESCRIPTION / ROLE

Job Type: Full Time

Job Location: Saudi Arabia

Nationality: Any Nationality

Salary: Not Specified

Gender: Not Specified

Arabic Fluency: Not Specified

Job Function: Education & Teaching

Company Industry: Education

Role overview

ES teachers work in collaborative teams and are responsible for providing an engaging, inquiry-based program to scholars. Our teachers create a safe, structured, and joyful learning community that fosters excellence, collaboration, and innovation. Teachers at AISJ are outcome-oriented, hardworking, and receptive to feedback, putting in the time necessary to ensure scholars meet AISJ’s high expectations for learning.

Job responsibilities

Planning and preparation for learning

Plan lessons and units by following the AISJ curriculum framework in collaboration with the other grade level teachers

Support in developing curriculum documentation that reflect horizontal and vertical alignment

Demonstrate planning with consideration of differentiation needs, scholar engagement, and anticipate scholars’ misconceptions and confusions

Demonstrate a plan for summative and formative assessments to monitor scholar learning

Demonstrate content knowledge in the areas of reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and social emotional learning

Classroom management

Be direct, specific, consistent, and tenacious in communicating and enforcing very high expectations

Show warmth, caring, respect, and fairness for all scholars and build strong relationships

Successfully inculcate class routines up front so that scholars maintain them throughout the year

Get all scholars to be self-disciplined, take responsibility for their actions, and have a strong sense of efficacy

Professional responsibilities

Design each lesson with clear, measurable goals closely aligned with standards and unit outcomes

Collaborate with colleagues to plan units, share teaching ideas, and look at scholar work

Seek out effective teaching ideas from colleagues, workshops, and other sources and implement them well

Delivery of instruction

Promote scholar-centered learning through highly effective strategies, materials, and groupings to involve and motivate all scholars

Promote inquiry-based and concept-based learning

Support scholars with understanding of their strengths and opportunities for development, setting their goals, and action planning

Promote agency among scholars including voice, choice, and ownership

Successfully reach all scholars by skillfully differentiating and scaffolding

Monitoring assessment & follow-up

Frequently check for understanding, adjusting teaching, re-teaching, and following up from the data

Analyze and reflect on collected data to continuously ensure lesson and unit plans are designed to meet scholar needs

Give scholars a well-constructed diagnostic assessment up front, and use the information to fine-tune instruction

Have scholars set ambitious goals, continuously self-assess, give feedback, and take responsibility for improving performance

Help scholars develop as self-assessors and self-adjusters

Family and community outreach

Communicate respectfully with parents and be sensitive to different families’ cultures and values

Show parents a genuine interest and belief in each child’s ability to reach standards

Give parents clear expectations for scholar learning and behavior for the year

Promptly inform parents of behavior and learning problems, and also update parents on good news

Update parents on the unfolding curriculum and suggest ways to support learning at home

Respond promptly to parents' concerns and make parents feel welcome in the school

Other responsibilities

Engage with community in after-school activities

Engage with community in open communication

Supervision duties will be assigned

After school activity (1/week) and office hours (2/week)

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American International School of Neom (AISJ), Saudi Arabia