Department: Charter Schools
Direct Reporting Line: Head of Inclusion
Person Specification:
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree) in Special Education OR Bachelor in any subject + Diploma in Special Education
- Bachelor in any subject + CPD course in Special Education, as per the ADEK Inclusion Policy
Experience:
- A minimum 2 years of teaching experience working with students with additional learning needs
- with English Language Learner experience
Competencies:
Excellent communication skills in English with all stakeholders.
Excellent teaching skills
Excellent knowledge of SEN
Strong knowledge of and experience with the curriculum and assessment practices that support the learning of students of determination
Excellent knowledge of child protection and health and safety practices
Excellent command of relevant technology tools and platforms used for instruction, collaboration, and communication
Attributes:
Model of integrity, resilient, collaborative team player, empathetic listener, and strategic thinker
Able to convert vision into action
Internationally minded, emotionally intelligent, interculturally aware, creative and persuasive
Flexible and capable of instilling high standards
Adept in multilingual settings, spirited, pioneering, professional, and nurturing
Personal drive
Primary Job Purpose:
The core purpose of this role is to provide outstanding instruction to Students of Determination both in a small group and a one-to-one basis that secures excellent growth and development in order to reach their full educational potential. This includes students with learning, emotional, behavioural or communication difficulties, conditions such as ASD, dyspraxia, dyslexia and ADHD, sensory impairments (for example, visual impairment), sensory processing disorder and mental health issues.
Key Accountabilities:
Professional Readiness and Responsibilities:
Commit to the school’s vision, mission, and processes for
Take responsibility for improving teaching by undertaking appropriate professional development and responding to advice and feedback from colleagues.
Fulfil all assigned and published responsibilities, including those related to documentation, reporting, supervision duties, meeting participation, after school activities, use of resources
Establish and maintain effective professional relationships with colleagues, knowing how and when to draw on advice and support.
Make a positive contribution to the wider community and ethos of the
Model the attitudes, values, and behaviours that promote a love of learning and intellectual
Use available resources to establish and maintain inclusive, creative and inspiring learning environments.
Contribute to the design and implementation of an engaging and appropriate curriculum for students of determination
Contribute to the professional development of staff, including whole school CPD
Establish and maintain appropriate and respectful relationships with students and Comply with the Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy and the requirement to report to the Child Protection Officer any concerns relating to the safety or welfare of children.
Instructional Effectiveness
Support homeroom teachers in identifying individual needs and in understanding the needs of students of determination
Support the consistent use and dissemination of the most effective teaching approaches for individual students of determination to minimize barriers to learning
Carry out basic assessments and screening of students of determination
Collaborate with homeroom teachers to define appropriate activities for the students in relation to the curriculum
Liaise with external agencies and staff to co-ordinate their contribution provides maximum support and ensures continuity of provision.
Help students develop strategies that will enable them to learn more effectively in class, including the use of digital learning and IT
Expertly apply specialist knowledge in meeting the needs of students of determination
Use an in-depth knowledge of the students' strengths and weaknesses to monitor progress, set targets, and plan instruction.
Continually establish inspiring and challenging expectations and goals for students, regardless of their abilities, backgrounds, and dispositions.
In accordance with the school's behaviour policies, establish and maintain a safe, productive, orderly, and stimulating learning environment that engages students, responds to their needs, and ensures that all are treated with respect and dignity.
Demonstrate consistently an awareness of the physical, social and intellectual development of students and use that awareness to adapt teaching to support students at different stages of development.
Plan and prepare lessons based on students’ individual needs, whilst being aware of the need for flexibility and the ability to react to specific and particular needs
Deliver well-structured, imaginative lessons that make effective use of class time, reflecting regularly on their impact on students and making improvements as needed.
Skilfully use a variety of assessment strategies to ensure that students are making progress in line with their IEP goals
Provide students frequent, timely, comprehensive, and constructive feedback to promote further learning
Differentiate instruction appropriately so that all students always receive a high level of challenge and necessary support.
Demonstrate an understanding of and take responsibility for promoting high standards of literacy, articulacy, and the correct use of standard English.
Ensure that homework and other out-of-class activities meaningfully consolidate and extend the knowledge and understanding pupils have acquired.
Contribute to all termly and annual reviews of IEPs and attend meetings as requested
Communicate in an accurate, timely, and effective manner with parents regarding students’ achievement, progress, and well-being.
Provide frequent and detailed information about the instructional program to parents so they can effectively support their children's learning.
Other Duties
Undertake any other duties commensurate with the role, as reasonably requested by the management.
Department: Administration
Direct Reporting Line: Deputy Head of Secondary
Safeguarding Statement:
Taaleem is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. At Taaleem, we hold ourselves to a high standard of effective practices in relation to child protection, and we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We expect all staff to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be subject to various background checks including receipt of references, proof of relevant qualifications, identification, and police checks, including overseas checks.
Job Purpose:
Provide administrative and logistical support to the IB Program Coordinators, ensuring a smooth functioning of the IB Program.
The role requires excellent organisational and communication skills, attention to detail and a good understanding of the IB Curriculum.
Key Relationships (Internal and External):
- All School Departments, Parents, Students, SLT
Key Accountabilities:
- Assist IB Coordinators and Head of School with daily administrative tasks including managing calendars, scheduling meetings, and organising appointments.
- Support the preparation, submission, and tracking of IB program documentation, including student registrations and exam materials.
- Serve as a liaison between IB Coordinators, students, parents, and teaching staff to facilitate clear communication.
- Schedule meetings with parents for progress updates with SSLT
- Maintain accurate and confidential records of IB students, assessment results, and other program- related data.
- Coordinate logistics for IB exams, workshops, meetings, and events in collaboration with IB Coordinators.
- Assist in preparing reports, presentations, and correspondence related to the IB program.
- Monitor deadlines and ensure timely submission of all IB requirements and documentation.
- Assist with the update of School management systems.
- Collaborate with teachers to ensure the implementation of the IB curriculum, including organizing resources and materials for exams.
- Provide administrative support with the logistics of the end of year exams, Mock Exams and IB Exams
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Seasonal Events:
- ADEK Wellbeing Census
- Official November and May IB Diploma Exams
- PASS TEST
- Alis Test
- Grade 12 Mock Exams
- Grade11MockExams
- Grade6-10InternalExam
- CAT4
- GLS
- IBT
Administrative:
- Collect and print all exams.
- Prepare cover sheets for all exams.
- Prepare and manage invigilation.
- Invigilation – support.
- Administration of subject change/course change letters to parents and scheduling of interview dates
- Retrieve data from the GL assessment site for GL results.
- Create interview schedules for grade 10 meetings.
- Collect grade 10 Subject forms from IB Coordinators and SSLT.
- Create a form for the grade 10 Subject forms.
- Send exam results to parents through mail merge.
- Management of Coordinators' Calendars
- Support for Grade 10 Options SLT/Coordinators Interviews
- Support in collating and communicating internal and external IB-related information (predicted grades, registration documents, etc)
- Support in sending out parcels and documents to IB via couriers - Aramex, DHL (Exams, etc)
J ob Purpose:
The Taaleem teacher embodies, radiates and transmits the unique Taaleem ethos of excellence, innovation, creativity and compassion. Through inspirational teaching, with a deep understanding of students’ individual learning needs, the Taaleem teacher strives to ensure that our distinctive curriculum programmes lay firm foundations for academic and professional success, personal and spiritual fulfilment and a love of lifelong learning in each and every one of our students. Taaleem Teachers inspire young minds.
Key Relationships (Internal and External):
Students, colleagues, parents and the school Principal, Heads of School and Senior Leadership team.
Job Description:
Department: Education
Direct Reporting Line: Principal/ Vice Principal/Early Years Coordinator/Head of Faculty Cycle Level
Person Specification:
Education: Bachelor’s Degree in the Education of the subject, or bachelor’s degree in the subject (or a related subject) + Valid teaching license OR Diploma teaching qualification
Experience: A minimum of teaching experience in the subject.
Key Relationships: Relationships: Students, colleagues, parents and the school Principal, Heads of School and Senior Leadership team.
Primary Job Purpose:
The Taaleem teacher embodies, radiates and transmits the unique Taaleem ethos of excellence, innovation, creativity and compassion. Through inspirational teaching, with a deep understanding of students’ individual learning needs, the Taaleem teacher strives to ensure that our distinctive curriculum programs lay firm foundations for academic and professional success, personal and spiritual fulfilment and a love of lifelong learning in each and every one of our students. Taaleem Teachers inspire young minds.
Key Responsibilities:
- Representing areas of knowledge, understanding and skills, in all their richness, to students taught
- Inculcating by precept and example the highest regard for truth, justice, equality of opportunity, human rights, benevolence and compassion
- Engaging and motivating students to achieve at levels that are beyond their expectations and previous limits
- Using excellent subject knowledge, pedagogic and interpersonal skills to enthuse students and enable students to enjoy learning
- Making full use of ICT and the new technologies to enhance the quality of teaching and learning for students of all ages and attainment levels
- Planning lessons taking full account of students’ individual learning needs, as well as their individual learning styles, preferences and capabilities
- Encouraging and enabling all students to become effective, confident and independent life-long learners
- Maintaining excellent professional relationships with colleagues by making a wider professional contribution to the continuing improvement of the school
- Planning and delivery of a programme of learning opportunities and activities to enrich and enhance the taught curriculum
- Co-operating with colleagues to establish and maintain fair and consistent disciplinary practices in the classroom, around the school and on school trips, and taking active measures to protect students from all forms of abuse, including racist or sexist abuse, bullying, and any kind of corporal punishment.
- Communicate open and professionally with parents on a regular basis about the attainment and progress of their child.
- Maintain high levels of confidentiality when speaking to parents and external
- Model good practice of academic honesty
- Contribute actively to department discussions in meeting
- Contribute to and plan after-school activities as required
- Actively support the school partnership with the community e.g. attending school / community events which may occasionally occur at weekends or in the evening i.e. school concerts etc.
- Other responsibilities as reasonably requested
Teaching:
- Plan and prepare schemes of work and complete planning documentation
- Teach with consistent effectiveness the students in her/his classes, taking full account of all students’ individual educational needs
- Set and mark work to be carried out by the students in school, at home and elsewhere as appropriate
- Promote the intellectual, moral, spiritual, cultural, physical and personal abilities and aptitudes of the students in her/his classes and provide guidance and advice to students on educational and relevant social and other matters
- Make records of and reports on the personal and social needs of students
- Take part as appropriate in whole school development and share and promote best practice.
Assessment, recording and reporting
- Assess, record and report on the development, progress and attainment of the students in her/his classes
- Provide or contribute to oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual students or groups of students
- Guide students to set targets to improve on their previous ‘best’ and give regular feedback to students to support next steps in learning
Continuing Professional Development
- Keep under review her/his methods of teaching and programmes of work
- Be pro-active and take accountability for own development
- Participate in arrangements for her/his further training and professional development as a teacher.
Curriculum Development
- Advise and co-operate with the Principal and other colleagues on the preparation and development of courses of study, teaching materials, teaching schemes, methods of teaching and assessment and pastoral arrangements
- Take responsibility for specific subjects
- To embed UAE heritage and culture within the curriculum
Taaleem Professional Teachers’ Standards:
Teachers make the education of their pupils their first concern and are accountable for achieving the highest possible standards in work and conduct. Teachers act with honesty and integrity; have strong subject knowledge, keep their knowledge and skills as teachers up-to-date and are self-critical; forge positive professional relationships; and work with parents and other stakeholders in the best interests.
Job Purpose
The Taaleem teacher embodies, radiates and transmits the unique Taaleem ethos of excellence, innovation, creativity and compassion. Through inspirational teaching, with a deep understanding of students’ individual learning needs, the Taaleem teacher strives to ensure that our distinctive curriculum programmes lay firm foundations for academic and professional success, personal and spiritual fulfilment and a love of lifelong learning in each and every one of our students. Taaleem Teachers inspire young minds.
Key Relationships (Internal and External)
Students, colleagues, parents and the school Principal, Heads of School and Senior Leadership team.
Job Purpose
The Taaleem teacher embodies, radiates and transmits the unique Taaleem ethos of excellence, innovation, creativity and compassion. Through inspirational teaching, with a deep understanding of students’ individual learning needs, the Taaleem teacher strives to ensure that our distinctive curriculum programmes lay firm foundations for academic and professional success, personal and spiritual fulfilment and a love of lifelong learning in each and every one of our students. Taaleem Teachers inspire young minds.
Key Relationships (Internal and External)
Students, colleagues, parents and the school Principal, Heads of School and Senior Leadership team.
Job Purpose:
To assist in providing an engaging, inclusive learning environment that supports the developmental and educational needs of all the children, under the overall direction of the Class Teacher.
Key Relationships (Internal and External):
Teachers, Students, Parents, Principal and other members of the School Senior Leadership Team
Key Accountabilities:
To work with individual or small groups of children as directed by the class teacher and subject teachers.
To work with groups of children in the classroom enabling them to access the curriculum. Be proactive with the learning and in conjunction with the class teacher be ready to change strategy or approach as needed to facilitate learning.
Support with the recording and presenting of evidence of learning as required.
To follow agreed programmes of work with individuals and groups of children working towards set targets.
To contribute to the well-being of the children in terms of physical, emotional and social needs.
To support staff with minor admin tasks when not directly working with students, for example in non-contact time, e.g. photocopy, file or complete records.
To prepare and store general resources required.
To make notes in Individual Education Plan (IEP) books for children as required.
To give verbal and written feedback to the Class Teacher to support report writing, assessments and IEPs.
To accompany children on school trips where appropriate and ensure you follow school policy in regards to reading, understanding and following the trip documentation.
Supervise children during breaks (including before and after school if necessary).
Communicate appropriately and professionally with parents to support the image and reputation of the school.
Carry out any other tasks of a similar nature as directed by the Class Teacher, including being flexible to support in other classes or areas of the school as and when required.
Job Purpose
Support the school in managing all health-related issues and in maintaining appropriate systems that fulfill DHA/HAAD compliance requirements.
Key Accountabilities
Deal with students’ health issues including administering drugs, vaccines and other appropriate treatments
Check on lunch boxes and the food served in the school canteen to support the school’s agenda on maintaining a healthy living environment; as well as undertaking healthy eating talks with students
Support Health and Safety in school by liaising with Facilities Manager on regular checks
Manage all issues with DHA/HAAD including compliance, approvals and statistics
Make sure all First Aid Kits are appropriately maintained
Undertake School Medicals with specific year groups Communicating with Parents regarding health and safety issues
Administer vaccinations in the school (DHA/HAAD approved only)
Communicate and liaise with Children’s Health department at the DHA/HAAD
Support, manage and caring for children with very specific health issues e.g. diabetic students
Member of the Health and Safety Committee Support and work closely with the school on Child Protection Input clinic visits into proactive system
Job Purpose
The Taaleem teacher embodies, radiates and transmits the unique Taaleem ethos of excellence, innovation, creativity and compassion. Through inspirational teaching, with a deep understanding of students’ individual learning needs, the Taaleem teacher strives to ensure that our distinctive curriculum programmes lay firm foundations for academic and professional success, personal and spiritual fulfilment and a love of lifelong learning in each and every one of our students. Taaleem Teachers inspire young minds.
Key Relationships (Internal and External)
Students, colleagues, parents and the school Principal, Heads of School and Senior Leadership team
Safeguarding Statement
Taaleem is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. At Taaleem, we hold ourselves to a high standard of effective practices in relation to child protection, and we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We expect all staff to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be subject to various background checks including receipt of references, proof of relevant qualifications, identification, and police checks, including overseas checks.
Job Purpose:
Responsible to the Head of Secondary and ultimately the Principal for the management and leadership of the teaching staff and delivery of the academic programme in the relevant department. This encompasses quality assurance, raising standards and tracking each teacher’s planning and delivery of the curriculum .
Key Relationships (Internal and External):
Head of School, Principal, Teachers, Students, Parents, Senior
Leadership Team .
Key Accountabilities:
Plan, implement and review the curriculum within the
framework of the school's communicated aims and objectives .
Oversee teaching within the department through the
preparation of schemes of work .
Responsible for the planning, administration and monitoring of
curriculum delivery .
Monitor data in the department, using it to develop action
plans for the improvement of student outcomes (progress,
attainment and learning skills) .
Ensure that students' work is regularly assessed, their
achievements recorded and that the department standardises
assessment tasks .
Manage the ordering, storage and use of materials,
equipment, books, etc. and to account for spending within any
allocated budget .
Oversee the work of teaching (and if appropriate non teaching)
staff assigned to the department and to advise and assist the
Principal in matters of staff appointments and staff review and
development .
Ensure the department develops and adheres to set
assessment schedule within the framework of the assessment
calendar .
Standards
To lead by example when it comes to outstanding teaching.
You are expected to keep abreast of curriculum developments and best practice in teaching in international schools .
To ensure that all the students receive the best possible preparation for internal and external assessments.
Each HOD will develop a SMART action plan for their department, identifying areas of strength and areas for improvement. HODs are expected to provide evidence of, or action plans, designed to achieve the standards outlined by the Regulator and any applicable Inspection and Accreditation Bodies.
HODs will provide evidence, both qualitative and quantitative, that evaluates the relevant sections of any inspection or accreditation frameworks applicable to their department.
Person Specification:
Education: Bachelor’s Degree in education or relevant degree
Experience: At least three years in a middle leadership role .
Competencies:
- Extensive experience with the School’s specific Curriculum
- Experience of working with DSIB, NEASC, CIS or similar school inspection/accreditation authority
- Experience of working in an international school setting
- Fully qualified to teach in the UAE
Attributes:
- Knowledgeable, Reflective, Inquirer, Thinker
- Empathises with and believes in the values of the school
- A student of learning and leading
- Solutions-focused
- Believes in the potential of all students
- Committed to professional learning
- A strategic thinker who can shape and deliver change
- Caring and Open-minded
- Passionate about international education and working with young people
- Sees leadership as a service to others
