Teaching Assistant - Dubai

Key Responsibilities:
Teaching & learning support
* Deliver a high quality teaching and learning experience to the students
* Carry out teaching within a clear and established programme in a variety of settings from small groups to large classes
* Develop own teaching materials, with assistance and support as required.
* Set and mark assignments with assistance and support as required
* Transfer knowledge in the form of practical skills, methods and techniques
* Develop of examination questions appropriate to the learning outcomes
* Assess student progress and provide constructive feedback
* Continually update knowledge and develop skills to inform and support teaching integrating pedagogy or professional activities where appropriate
* Develop the skills of applying appropriate approaches to teaching
* Develop student's critical thinking and study skills

Scholarship & pedagogy
Reflect on practice and the development of own teaching and learning skills
Maintain a general awareness of developments in relevant subject areas
Seek ways of improving performance by reflecting on teaching design

Communication
* Deal with routine communication using standard media
* Communicate information and ideas to students
* Report results of assessments and student feedback to course co-ordinators and administrative officers
* Prepare handouts, VLE-based information and other basic learning support materials

Liaison & networking
* Liaise with colleagues and students
* Join appropriate internal networks
* Participate on school/Institute committees; for example, teaching groups

Managing people
Manage, with guidance, own teaching activities.

Teamwork
* Actively participate as a member of a teaching team
* Attend and contribute to relevant meetings

Pastoral care
* Show consideration to others
* Act as mentor to students as required
* Initiative, problem-solving and decision-making
* Deal with problems which may affect the delivery of teaching
* Contribute to decisions affecting the work of the team

Planning and managing resources
* Plan own day-to-day activity within the framework of the agreed programme
* Co-ordinate own work with that of others to avoid conflict or duplication of effort
* Contribute to the planning of teaching programmes

Sensory, physical and emotional demands
* Sensory and physical demands may vary from relatively light to a high level depending on the discipline and the type of work carried out
* Balance with help the competing pressures of teaching and administrative demands and deadlines

Work environment
Required to be aware of the risks in the work environment

Expertise
* Possess sufficient breadth or depth of specialist knowledge in the discipline and of teaching methods and techniques to work within own area
* Knowledge of appropriate teaching and assessment methods including, for example, developing teaching materials and setting and marking assignments with appropriate support
* Ability to organise own teaching workload, ensuring deadlines and standards are met, with general supervision from senior colleagues.
This document sets out the standard role requirements of a grade ‎6 teaching
role, and in addition the TA is expected to maintain their registration as a
PhD student as appropriate.
The deadline for all applications is Thursday 18th August ‎2022.