Female Middle School English Teacher

Contract Length: ‎2 years
Number of Vacancies: ‎1
Student Level:
* Elementary, Middle School
Eligible Candidates:
* Licensed Teacher, ESL Instructor
Requirements:
* Education Required: Bachelor
* Minimum Teaching Experience: ‎0 year of teaching experience
* Major: English
* Required Certificates:
Teaching Credential/License
* Maintain accurate attendance and tardy records.
* Keep records of materials assigned to students.
* Complete inventory tasks, as required.
* Keep nurse folders accurate and available.
* Maintain up-to-date and attractive bulletin boards including student work.
* Foster a healthy and safe classroom environment.
* Report maintenance needs.
* Send photocopying with correct forms a minimum of three days ahead.
* Ensure the classroom remains tidy.
* Ensure shelves, tabletops, and desks are tidy.
* Begin and end classes on time so that timetables may be accurately followed.
* Cooperate with IA, escort and pick up students from special classes and washroom trips. (ECE & ES only)
* Cooperate with IA, and escort sick students to the nurse's office. Follow the nurse's instructions: send the child home, etc. (ECE & ES only)
* Build a portfolio of student's work to show growth and progress. (ECE & ES only)
* Provide play time and role-play opportunities at proper developmental levels. (ECE & ES only)
* Prepare child-centered activities as well as learning centers. (ECE & ES only)
* Provide extra assistance as needed.
* Provide positive classroom procedures, management, and records.
* Submit all letters or notes to parents to the principal for review and approval before sending them to parents.
* Evaluate and report student progress as required by the principal.
* Progress Report each quarter
* Inform the counselor and/or parents of any change in their child's behavior or academic progress as needed.
* Prepare, check, and mark homework assigned to students.
* Return graded homework to students promptly.
* Update grades in systems promptly.
* Cooperate with the principal and the Music teacher (if available) to produce graduation and concerts.
* Cooperate with the principal, Arabic staff, and Music and/or PE teacher to produce Kuwait national day and other concerts (e.g.: Spring Concert)
* Plan regular field trips with the grade-level team according to field trip procedures.
* Assume other duties assigned by the principal.
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, and cable TV
* 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:
Management Tasks and Responsibilities:
Depending on the total number of periods a day, each teacher is allowed a ‎45
minutes prep period a day or ‎90 minutes prep period when on a ‎4-blocks-a-day
schedule. The remaining time will be used as instructional teaching time.
Develop yearly unit plans and weekly lesson plans. All plans should include
outcomes, assessments, resources, vocabulary, and differentiation strategies.
All plans must be available for the Principal upon request and for the teacher
's absence.
Maintain pupil records of achievement: anecdotal records, writing samples,
homework completion, portfolios, and records of parent meetings.
Use assessment results to determine the next steps of growth on a class-wide
basis and for individual students' growth.

Participate productively in:
* All team meetings
* All staff meetings
* All professional development days, meetings, and/or workshops
* Curriculum development
* Instructional in-services
* Textbook adoption programs
* 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.
* Meet with parents, at teacher, parent, or principal 's request.
* Attend Parent/Teacher conferences, Open Houses/Orientation, and other such events, and as needed during the year.
* 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. Eating, drinking, or using a mobile during supervision or duty will result in receiving a warning letter.
* Meet report card expectations and due dates as set by the Principal.