HS Biology Teacher (KSA-Jeddah)

AISJ High School teachers model the way. We model what we teach for our scholars. High school teachers know that we measure our success by the learning that is taking place inside and outside of the classroom, and not the teaching alone. High School teachers believe that by working in partnership with our parents, scholars, and greater community, all of our scholars will be prepared for success to get to and through college and make an impact on the world at large around them through collaboration, innovation, and excellence.

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 differentiated needs, scholar engagement, and anticipates scholars' misconceptions and confusions

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

-Demonstrates transdisciplinary and play-based content knowledge in the areas of language, literacy, math, science, social

studies, social-emotional, and cognitive 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

Delivery of Instruction:

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

-Promotes inquiry-based and concept-based learning

Professional Responsibilities:

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

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

-Seeks out effective teaching ideas from colleagues, workshops, and other sources and implements them well

-Supports scholars with understanding of their strengths and opportunities for development, action planning, and setting their goals.

-Promotes agency among scholars including voice, choice, and ownership

-Successfully reaches all scholars by skillfully differentiating and scaffolding

Monitoring Assessment & Follow-up:

-Frequently checks for understanding, adjusting teaching, re teaching 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.