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MS English Teacher

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.
Posted: September 2021
This is a Direct to School Job

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LocationSalwa, Kuwait
Start DateOctober 2021
Eligible CandidatesLicensed Teacher
Student LevelElementary, Middle School
Number of Vacancies2

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

 

Qualifications and Requirements

Education RequiredBachelor
Work Visa EligibilityUnited States (USA), Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Chile
MajorEducation or English
Additional School Requirements
  • Teaching experience preferred, but not required.
  • Teaching certification preferred, but not required.
  • Fluent English speakers only.
  • Only female applicants!