Classroom Teacher

• Middle School

• Licensed Teacher

• Education Required: Bachelor
• Minimum Teaching Experience: 1 year of teaching experience
• Major: English or English Literature
• Required Certificates:
  Teaching Credential/License
• Work Visa Eligibility: Australia, Chile, Colombia, Ireland, Jamaica, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, United Kingdom (UK), United States (USA)

End of service indemnity: Half a month's salary for each year taught at AAG for the first 5 years of

service and full month salary starting with the 6th year and onward; 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: 40% discounted tuition for dependents

Depending on the total number of periods a day, each teacher is allowed a 40 minutes prep period a day or 80 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 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 next steps of growth on a class-wide basis and for individual student’s 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.