Homeroom Teacher

Contract Length: ‎2 years
Number of Vacancies: ‎3
Student Level:
* Early Childhood, Elementary
Eligible Candidates:
* Licensed Teacher
Requirements:
* Education Required: Bachelor
* Minimum Teaching Experience: ‎0 year of teaching experience
* Major: Early Childhood Education or Education
* Teacher certification preferred, but not required.
* Some experience preferred, but not required.
* Fluent English speaker.
Job Benefits:
* End of service indemnity: Half a month's salary for each year taught at AAG for the first ‎5 years of service to be received upon completion of service.
* Relocation allowance: ‎120 KD, payable upon arrival
* Personal days: ‎3 per academic year (‎10 KD paid for each day not used at the end of the year)
* Sick leave: ‎6 per academic year
* Contract: Paid over ‎12 months including school holidays with pay
* Emergency leave: Handled case by case
* Bereavement leave: Five days with pay/five days without pay for immediate family members
* Airline ticket: Provided to and from your point of origin every summer
* Extra baggage allowance: ‎65 KD
* Housing: Furnished apartment (‎2 bedrooms) with phone, free utilities, cable TV & internet
* Transportation: Provided to and from school
* Medical care: Subsidized private (‎90% paid by Board) health insurance
* Professional Dev: Provided by the school
* Dependents: Discounted tuition for dependents
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
* Develop yearly unit plans and weekly lesson plans. All plans should include outcomes, assessments, resources, vocabulary, and differentiation strategies.
* Maintain pupil records of achievement: anecdotal records, writing samples, homework completion, portfolios, and records of parent meetings.
* Use assessment results to determine next steps of growth on a class-wide basis and for individual student 's growth.
* Participate productively in alll team and staff meetings, professional development days, meetings, and/or workshops.
* Meetings with parents, either initiated by the school, or parent
* Plan and prepare assignments, experiments, assessments, demonstrations, teaching aids, bulletin boards, homework, etc.
* Plan, organize, and supervise students at assemblies and other special programs, making a professional contribution to overall school operation.
* Maintain consistent, honest, and whenever possible, positive communication with parents throughout the year by responding to or initiating contact through phone calls, emails, meetings, or agenda notes.
* Work positively and professionally with all students and their families, but in particular, high risk students, understanding that positive teacher/student/parent relationships are often a determinant of school success.
* Attend duties on time and take the opportunity to interact positively with students and parents. Show professional behavior at all times.
* Meet report card expectations and due dates as set by the Principal.