Teacher - SEN - Al Danah Charter School

Job Description

Al Danah Charter School is an American Curriculum school in the beautiful city of Abu Dhabi. With our globally recognised and admired curriculum, dedicated and passionate practitioners and outstanding teaching and learning, Al Danah Charter School is a great place to work. It has an exciting, diverse, and progressive learning community that is committed to fulfilling the National Agenda for our Emirati students. Our learning culture is under pinned by our mission statement, Excite, Challenge, empower allowing all students to thrive. This is an exciting opportunity to join the highly successful Aldar family of schools and to help shape the future of Abu Dhabi’s leading school group. 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

Roles and responsibilities include:

• To deliver lessons that inspire students to succeed in order to achieve the best possible outcomes.
• To plan, develop, and implement lessons and other provisions for students primarily students of determination to achieve best possible outcomes in areas of academics social, and emotional.
• Teamwork and collaboration
• To be a good communicator at all levels.
• Be committed to developing positiverelationships with all members of the schoolcommunity.
• Working alongside fellow teachers to plan engaginglessons that meet requirements of the curriculum.
• Liaising with colleagues and working flexibly.
• Working with parents to ensure the happiness and best academicoutcomes for all children.
• Working cooperatively with curriculum supportstaff (where applicable) to support children’s development.
  
  
  

Teaching and learning:

• Clear understanding of the Curriculum.
• Organising the classroom provision and learning resourcesand creating displaysto encourage a positive and engaging learning environment.
• Planning, preparing and presenting sessionsthat cater for the needs of the whole abilityrange within the class includingstudents of determination, gifted and talented, and EAL learners.
• Motivating pupils with enthusiastic, imaginative teaching.
• Observing and assessing childrenin line with school assessments.
• Being reflective of the classroom provision, sessions taught, progress made, and adjusting environment, planning and curriculum to reflect this.
• Meeting with other professionals such as speech and languagetherapists, occupational therapists and educational psychologists, if required.
• Delivering and participating in intra and inter-departmental professional development.
  
  
  

Assessment and data:

• Taking responsibility for the progress of a class.
• Meeting requirements for the assessment and recording of student’s development using Target Tracker.
• Using data provided by assessments to influence furtherplanning, provision and intervention.
• Providing feedbackto parents and carers on a student’sprogress at Parent Teacher Conferences and other meetings
  
  
  

Behaviour management and duties

• Follow the school’s behaviour policy.
• Manage classeseffectively, using approaches which are appropriate to students’ needs in orderto inspire, motivate and challenge pupils.
• Maintain good relationships with pupils, exerciseappropriate authority, and act decisively when necessary within the school’s behavioural policy.
• Be a positive role model and demonstrate consistently the positive attitudes, values and behaviour, which are expected of pupils.
• Have high expectations of behaviour, promotingself-control and independence of all learners.
• Carry out duties as directed and within the school’s policy.
  
  
  

Wider professional responsibilities

• To work as part of a curriculum actiongroup, supporting planning,assessment, resources and special eventslinked to that team.
• Support the organising and taking part in school events, outingsand activities which may take place at weekends or in the evening.
• Communicate effectively with parents/carers with regards to student’s achievements and well- being using school systems/processes such as CPOMS as appropriate.
• Make a positive contribution to the widerlife and ethos ofthe school
• While every effort has been made to explain the primary duties and responsibilities of the position, it may not be possible to identify every task undertaken. The job holder is expected to comply with any reasonable request from the line manager to do work of the same level not specifiedin this job description. This job description may be modifiedafter discussion betweenthe line manager and the job holder.
  
  
  

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in the relatedsubject with PGCE or other teacher qualification

Minimum Experience

Minimum 1- 2 years Teachingexperience

Job Specific Knowledge & Skills

• Previous experience working with studentswhom English is not their first language
• Passion for teaching and commitment to educating the whole child
• A high level of professionalism and consideration of the well-being of children
• Recent and consistent involvement in extra-curricular activities
• Respect for all membersof a school community, irrespective of position, gender,age and ethnic background
• A positiveand solution-focused attitudeto working life
• A clean enhanced Disclosure and Barring Servicescheck or policecheck
• Must be bilingual – English and Arabic