Arabic Teacher - High School

Job Title

Nibras International School is looking for a qualified High School Arabic Teacher to join the team in August 2026.

Job Purpose and Responsibilities

• Set high expectations that inspire, motivate, and challenge pupils.
• Establish a safe and stimulating environment for pupils rooted in mutual respect.
• Set goals that stretch and challenge pupils of all backgrounds, abilities, and dispositions.
• Demonstrate consistently the positive attitudes, values, and behaviour expected of pupils.
• Promote positive progress and outcomes for pupils through accountability of attainment, progress, and outcomes.
• Use awareness of pupils' capabilities and prior knowledge to plan teaching that builds on these.
• Guide pupils to reflect on the progress they have made and their emerging needs.
• Apply knowledge and understanding of how pupils learn and how this impacts on teaching.
• Encourage pupils to take a responsible and conscientious attitude to their own work and study.
• Demonstrate good subject and curriculum knowledge, fostering and maintaining pupils' interest in the subject, and addressing misunderstandings.
• Enjoy a critical understanding of developments in the subject and curriculum areas, promoting the value of scholarship.
• Ensure high standards of literacy, articulacy, and correct use of Standard English across the curriculum.
• If teaching early reading, demonstrate a clear understanding of systematic synthetic phonics.
• If teaching early mathematics, demonstrate a clear understanding of appropriate teaching strategies.
• Plan and teach well structured lessons, imparting knowledge and developing understanding through effective use of lesson time.
• Promote a love of learning and pupils' intellectual curiosity.
• Set homework when appropriate and plan other out of class activities to consolidate and extend learning.
• Reflect systematically on lesson effectiveness and teaching approaches.
• Contribute to the design and provision of an engaging curriculum within the relevant subject area(s).
• Adapt teaching to respond to the strengths and needs of all pupils, differentiating appropriately using approaches that enable effective learning.
• Understand how a range of factors can inhibit learning and how best to overcome these.
• Acknowledge pupils' physical, social, and intellectual development and adapt teaching to support education at different developmental stages.
• Be aware of the needs of pupils with special educational needs, high ability, English as an additional language, and disabilities, and use distinct teaching approaches to engage and support them.
• Make accurate and productive use of assessment, including statutory assessment requirements.
• Use formative and summative assessment to secure pupils' progress.
• Use relevant data to monitor progress, set targets, and plan subsequent lessons.
• Provide regular feedback, orally and through accurate marking, encouraging pupils to respond positively to the feedback.
• Manage behaviour effectively, establishing clear rules and routines, and promote good and courteous behaviour in and around the school.
• Employ a framework for discipline with a range of strategies, applying praise, sanctions, and rewards consistently and fairly.
• Manage classes effectively, using approaches appropriate to pupils' needs to involve and motivate them.
• Maintain good relationships with pupils, exercise appropriate authority, and act decisively when necessary.

Key Accountabilities

• Represent and model knowledge, understanding, and skills to students.
• Lead by example in upholding truth, justice, equality, human rights, compassion, and benevolence.
• Engage and motivate students to achieve beyond their expectations and previous limits.
• Use excellent subject knowledge, pedagogic and interpersonal skills to enthuse and enable learning.
• Leverage ICT and new technologies to enhance teaching and learning quality.
• Plan lessons that account for students' individual learning needs, styles, preferences, and capabilities.
• Encourage all students to become effective, confident, and independent lifelong learners.
• Maintain professional relationships with colleagues, contributing to school improvement.
• Plan and deliver a programme of learning opportunities and activities that enrich the curriculum.
• Co operate with colleagues to establish fair and consistent disciplinary practices and protect students from abuse.
• Communicate professionally with parents about attainment and progress.
• Maintain confidentiality when speaking to parents and external parties.
• Model good academic practice.
• Contribute actively to department discussions and academic meetings.
• Plan after school activities as required.
• Support the school partnership with the community, including attendance at community events.
• Accept other responsibilities as reasonably requested.

Teaching Duties

• Plan and prepare schemes of work and complete planning documentation.
• Teach with consistent effectiveness, addressing all students' individual educational needs.
• Set and mark work for students in school, online, at home, and elsewhere.
• Promote intellectual, moral, spiritual, cultural, physical, and personal abilities and provide guidance on educational and social matters.
• Record and report on students' personal and social needs.
• Participate in whole school development and share best practice when appropriate.

Assessment, Recording, and Reporting

• Assess, record, and report on students' development, progress, and attainment.
• Provide or contribute to oral and written assessments, reports, and references for individual students or groups.
• Guide students to set targets to improve on previous bests and give regular feedback to support next learning steps.

Continuing Professional Development

• Review teaching methods and work programmes continually.
• Pro actively take accountability for personal development.
• Participate in arrangements for further training and professional development.

Curriculum Development

• Advise and collaborate with the Principal and colleagues on courses of study, teaching materials, schemes, methods, assessment, and pastoral arrangements.
• Take responsibility for specific subjects.
• Embed UAE heritage and culture within the curriculum.

Position Requirements

Education: Bachelor Degree in Arabic language or any other relevant degree.

Experience: 2 years of school based teaching experience.

Competencies

• Outstanding performance and teaching experience in American/International schools.
• Strong knowledge and experience of international/American curriculum.
• Excellent communication skills and command of the English language, spoken and written.
• Collaborative team player with excellent personal skills.
• Classroom and behaviour management proficiency.

Attributes

• Collaborative team player, inspirational speaker, empathetic listener.
• Integrity and confidentiality.
• Internationally minded.
• Emotional intelligence.
• Intercultural awareness and creativity.
• Proficiency in online and classroom teaching.
• Flexible and a can do attitude.

Additional responsibilities may be assigned that are not specified in this job description. Employees are expected to comply with reasonable requests from a manager for work of a similar level.

All post holders are subject to appropriate vetting procedures, including background checks covering the previous 10 years' employment history. The school commits to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, ensuring a safe learning environment.