Kg Teacher

Teach Away-Manama, Bahrain

Contract Length: 1 year

Number of Vacancies: 3

Student Level:

  • Early Childhood
  • Licensed Teacher

Requirements:

  • Education Required: Bachelor
  • Minimum Teaching Experience: 0 year of teaching experience
  • Major: Childhood Education
  • Required Certificates:
  • Teaching Credential/License Job Benefits:

  • Settle in allowance

  • Shipping allowance
  • Transportation to/from school
  • Medical insurance

Job Description:
Duties and Responsibilities:
Teaching:

  • Create an environment of respect and rapport, engaging students actively in their learning.
  • Communicate clearly and positively, showing flexibility and responsiveness
  • Address the needs of students with different levels and abilities
  • Use prescribed curriculum framework with curricular standards
  • Use a range and balance of teaching strategies
  • Utilize developmentally appropriate instructional strategies
  • Use a variety of resources for pursuing open-ended inquiry
  • Recognize the importance of cultural heritage
  • Maintain constant awareness of the needs of second language learners
  • Provide prompt, regular, and appropriate feedback to students/parents by maintaining accurate records for each student
  • Use technology to optimize learning

Planning:

  • Plan collaboratively, based on the agreed curriculum framework, standards, and instructional goals.
  • Create learning units with the end of mind (backward design)
  • Involve students in planning their learning and assessment
  • Build upon students' prior knowledge and experience and accommodate a wide range of ability levels
  • Use varied and appropriate resources
  • Maintain accurate records including lesson plans and grade books

Assessing:

  • View planning, teaching, and assessing as interconnected processes
  • Use a range and balance of assessment strategies and documentation
  • Assess the levels of student’s current experience and understanding before embarking on new learning
  • Enable students to see assessment as a means of describing their learning and involving students and colleagues in the assessment process
  • Involve students in shared reflection during and at the end of each unit
  • Ensure students fully understand how their grades are determined
  • Maintain records of regular parental contact
  • Work collaboratively with colleagues to ensure that the results of an assessment provide a link to further curriculum development

Student Care and Support:

  • Provide a safe environment for the student at all times, in and out of the classroom
  • Efficiently carry out supervision responsibilities
  • Support the moral, social, and emotional development of each child
  • Demonstrate positive attitudes of tolerance, respect, and integrity by example
  • Celebrating multicultural and national identities in our community
  • Gain insight into students through communication and partnership with families and colleagues

Professional Appraisal and Staff Development:

  • Seek and participate in opportunities for professional growth
  • Support the emphasis on ongoing professional learning to further develop knowledge of pedagogy and teaching practice
  • Perform additional duties required by the administration that are consistent with the purposes and responsibilities contained in this job description.
  • Actively work and support the MKS growth process.