MS English Teacher (KSA-Jeddah)

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

-Supports in developing curriculum documentation that reflect horizontal and vertical alignment

-Demonstrates planning with consideration of differentiation needs, scholar engagement, and anticipates scholars’

misconceptions and confusions

-Demonstrates a plan for summative and formative assessments to monitor scholar learning

-Demonstrates content knowledge in the areas of reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and social emotional

learning.

Classroom Management

-Is direct, specific, consistent, and tenacious in communicating and enforcing very high expectations.

-Shows warmth, caring, respect, and fairness for all scholars and builds strong relationships.

-Successfully inculcates class routines up front so that scholars maintain them throughout the year.

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

-Is alert, poised, dynamic, and self-assured and nips virtually all discipline problems in the bud.

Delivery of Instruction

-Orchestrates highly effective strategies, materials, and groupings to involve and motivate all scholars.

-Gets all scholars highly involved in focused work in which they are active learners and problem-solvers.

-Successfully reaches all scholars by skillfully differentiating and scaffolding

Collaboration

-Working with colleagues to analyze data for placements and reflect on work (what worked and what did not work)

-Seeking and accepting feedback from colleagues to improve student growth

-Capitalizing on each other’s strengths and working with each other’s areas of growth

Monitoring Assessment & Follow-up

-Frequently checks for understanding, adjusting teaching, reteaching and following-up from the data

-Analyzes and reflects on collected data to continuously ensure lesson & unit plans are designed to meet scholar needs

-Gives scholars a well-constructed diagnostic assessment up front, and uses the information to fine-tune instruction.

-Has 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

-Communicates respectfully with parents and is sensitive to different families’ cultures and values.

-Shows parents a genuine interest and belief in each child’s ability to reach standards.

-Gives parents clear expectations for scholar learning and behavior for the year.

-Promptly informs parents of behavior and learning problems, and also updates parents on good news.

-Updates parents on the unfolding curriculum and suggests ways to support learning at home.

-Responds promptly to parents' concerns and make parents feel welcome in the school.