Homeroom Teacher

Job Description

Teaching and Learning

• Set high expectations, establish a safe learning environment, and motivate pupils to achieve challenging goals.
• Plan and teach well-structured lessons, schemes of work, homework, and activities that extend learning.
• Adapt teaching to individual strengths, needs, development stages, and learning styles.
• Promote subject knowledge, literacy, intellectual curiosity, and a love of learning.
• Use ICT and new technologies to enhance teaching and learning.

Assessment and Behavior

• Assess, record, and report student development, progress, and attainment.
• Use formative and summative assessment, relevant data, targets, feedback, and marking to support progress.
• Maintain clear classroom rules and routines and manage behavior fairly and consistently.
• Support students with special educational needs, high ability, English as an additional language, and disabilities.

Professional Contribution

• Communicate regularly and professionally with parents about student attainment and progress.
• Contribute to curriculum development, department discussions, school improvement, and best-practice sharing.
• Plan or support after-school activities, school trips, community events, and wider school development.
• Participate in continuing professional development and take accountability for personal development.
• Embed UAE heritage and culture within the curriculum.

Position Requirements

• Bachelor degree in education, or another bachelor degree with PGCE, diploma, or Master in Education.
• At least two years of school-based teaching experience.
• Outstanding teaching experience in American or international schools.
• Strong knowledge and experience of international or American curricula.
• Excellent spoken and written English communication.
• Classroom and behavior management capability.
• Online and classroom teaching experience.

Competencies and Attributes

• Collaborative teamwork, strong interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence, and intercultural awareness.
• Integrity, confidentiality, flexibility, creativity, and a positive can-do attitude.
• Ability to promote high standards of literacy, articulacy, and correct Standard English.
• Understanding of systematic synthetic phonics if teaching early reading.
• Understanding of appropriate teaching strategies if teaching early mathematics.

Safeguarding and School Principles

• All staff share responsibility for student safety, supervision, wellbeing, and safeguarding.
• The school expects staff to follow policies, protect students from abuse and bullying, and support an inclusive learning community.
• Post holders are subject to vetting, references, and satisfactory criminal background checks or equivalent covering the previous 10 years of employment.