Homeroom Teacher

Job description / Role

Homeroom teachers needed at an outstanding school in Riyadh.

Job Responsibilities:

Student Learning
- Have direct classroom responsibility for planning, delivering and evaluating a learning and teaching program in the context of the learning community
- Deliver a predominantly skills based curriculum that utilises assessment to develop learning skills
- Ensure students are involved in active learning with correctional support through differentiation strategies of teaching and learning
- Imbed informative feedback to students on their academic performance and approaches to learning in the everyday implementation of programs

Pedagogy
- Ensure a predominant teaching approach of social constructivism; based on a progression of developmentally appropriate understandings, and involving student collaboration, the synthesis of research based data, a presentation of outcomes and a social application of understandings gained
- Collaboratively plan a framework of curriculum scope and sequence
- Collaboratively develop units of work and procure appropriate resources Quality & Standards Compliance
- Comply with expectations and standards integral to any framework and/or accreditation requirements of the school
- Positively contribute to high team morale
- Be an ardent student of effective teaching and academic assessment practices
- Using a data driven approach, collaboratively evaluate the appropriateness and effectiveness of approaches to learning and teaching
- Collaboratively evaluate the appropriateness and effectiveness of curriculum content, scope and sequence
- Access and participate in professional networks
- Actively contribute to staff meetings by sharing ideas and materials

Stakeholder Relationships
- Develop and maintain a highly functioning professional relationship with each student
- Report learning expectations and student academic progress to families and the senior leadership team according to school guidelines
- Ensure a family connection with each students learning General Administration
- Positively contribute to the School Improvement Plan
- Positively contribute to the creation, implementation and evaluation of Program

Requirements

- Must be experienced in your native curriculum and have the ability to adapt to the challenges that a blended curriculum presents.
- A sound knowledge of best practices in Literacy and Numeracy education and an ability to transfer these skills in order to enable them to deliver the American Common Core State Standards is required.
- Teachers need to have experience working with a variety of teaching resources and be willing to contribute to the planning and preparation of additional resources.
- Understanding of Assessment for Learning tools such as standards based assessment, diagnostic/benchmark assessments and MAP testing would be an advantage.
- Exemplary classroom practitioner as evidenced by references
- Technologically capable, experienced in working with interactive whiteboards, mobile learning technologies and learning management systems
- Resilient, positive personality with the ability to develop meaning professional relationships
- International experience working with ESL students an advantage
- At least 2 years experience as an exemplary teacher
- Demonstrated high quality teaching skills
- A demonstrated high level knowledge of student centered approaches to learning and teaching, including planning, implementation, student assessment and program evaluation
- A demonstrated high level knowledge of relevant curriculum areas
- A demonstrated understanding of high quality and effective education resources
- A demonstrated ability to respond effectively to emerging educational initiatives and priorities
- Demonstrated high level professional behaviour when interacting with families, students and colleagues
- A demonstrated ability to successfully organise and manage aspects of the wider school program
- A demonstrated ability to improve teaching performance through critically evaluating professional practices
- A demonstrated ability to provide high level professional support to colleagues

Personal
- Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills
- Strong communication and motivational skills
- High level personal resilience
- High level English literacy and oral competence
- Educated to at least Bachelors Level in education/English or the equivalent
- Teacher accreditation or the equivalent

About the Company

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