Job description

Aldar Education is currently seeking a high-performing English Teacher at the
Middle School/High School Level for January 2025. The current vacancy is
based in ADNOC School – Abu Dhabi Campus.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Aldar Education and to help shape the
future of Abu Dhabi’s leading school group. ADNOC Schools, managed and
operated by Aldar Education, offer world-class amenities, and are designed to
provide learners with a 21st-century curriculum using the latest technology
and world-class facilities.

ADNOC Schools are Massachusetts State Curriculum schools in superb facilities
in Abu Dhabi City and the Western Region of Abu Dhabi Emirate. The
Massachusetts Curriculum is one of the most highly regarded and successful
curricula in the United States, with close links to prestigious higher
education institutions such as Harvard University and the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Graduates of ADNOC Schools receive the American High
School Diploma – the standard entry qualification for US colleges and
universities.

The successful candidates will be closely aligned with our core values and
ethos and possess a genuine understanding and appreciation of the values of
the region.

• Responsibilities:*

• Creating a climate for learning that is conducive to outstanding practice
• Identifying clear teaching and learning objectives
• Setting tasks that challenge students and ensure high levels of interest;
• Setting appropriate and demanding expectations;
• Setting clear targets, building on prior attainment;
• Identifying SEN or very able students and ensuring that their needs are
met through differentiation;
• Providing clear structures for lessons maintaining pace, motivation, and
challenge;
• Making effective use of assessment for learning;
• Making effective use of performance data and key indicators to inform
planning and therefore deliver differentiated lessons
• Maintaining discipline by the school’s ‘Behaviour for Learning
Policy’ and encouraging good practice about punctuality, behavior,
standards of work, and homework;
• Assess how well learning objectives have been achieved and use them to
improve specific aspects of teaching;
• Mark students work at least once every two weeks and set targets for
progress;
• Using performance data to inform planning and therefore ensuring the
Learning and Teaching continue to ‘add value’
• Assess and record students’ progress systematically and keep records to
check work is understood and completed, monitor strengths and areas for
development, inform planning, and recognize the level at which the student
is achieving
• Assess students as requested by examination bodies, departmental and
school procedures
• Prepare and present informative reports to parents
• Take part in subject development by producing, reviewing, and updating
curriculum plans and schemes of work
• Keep subject knowledge up-to-date through CPD and professional reading
• Attend professional development workshops as appropriate
• Undertake additional duties as required by the Principal or Vice Principal
as appropriate.
• Using a variety of teaching strategies to:*
• match approach to content, structure information, present a set of key
ideas and use appropriate vocabulary
• use effective questioning, listen carefully to students, give attention to
errors and misconceptions
• select appropriate learning resources and develop study skills through the
library, I.C.T., and other learning technologies;