Arabic Social Studies Teacher August 2025
About This Role
The Position
ADNOC Schools is on the lookout for exceptional Arabic Social Studies Teachers for a start date in August 2025. This opening is located at ADNOC School, Madinat Zayed, in the Western Region of Abu Dhabi, UAE.
ADNOC Schools follow the Massachusetts State Curriculum and are situated in outstanding facilities throughout Abu Dhabi City and the Western Region of the Abu Dhabi Emirate.
Recognized as one of the most esteemed curricula in the United States, the Massachusetts Curriculum has strong connections with prestigious higher education institutions like Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Graduates from ADNOC Schools earn the American High School Diploma, which is the standard qualification for entry into US colleges and universities.
This position presents an exciting opportunity to join the successful Aldar family of schools and contribute to shaping the future of Abu Dhabi’s foremost educational group.
Ideal candidates will resonate with our core values and mission, demonstrating a genuine understanding and respect for the region's cultural values.
Key Responsibilities:
- Cultivating a learning environment that fosters outstanding educational practices
- Establishing clear objectives for teaching and learning
- Designing challenging tasks that engage students and maintain high levels of interest
- Setting appropriate, high expectations
- Defining clear targets that build on previous achievements
- Identifying students with special educational needs or exceptional abilities and ensuring their needs are met through tailored differentiation
- Providing structured lesson plans that maintain pace, motivation, and challenge
- Effectively utilizing assessment to enhance learning
- Leveraging performance data and key indicators to inform planning and deliver differentiated instruction
- Upholding discipline in line with the school’s ‘Behaviour for Learning Policy’ and promoting best practices regarding punctuality, behavior, work standards, and homework
- Employing diverse teaching strategies to:
- Align teaching methods with content, structure information, highlight key concepts, and use appropriate terminology
- Implement effective questioning techniques, actively listen to students, and address errors and misconceptions
- Select suitable learning resources and develop study skills through the library, ICT, and other educational technologies
- Evaluating the achievement of learning objectives and using this information to refine specific teaching aspects
- Grading student work at least bi-weekly and setting progress targets
- Utilizing performance data to inform lesson planning, ensuring that learning and teaching continue to deliver value
- Systematically assessing and recording student progress, maintaining records to monitor understanding and completion of work, identifying strengths and areas for improvement, and informing planning while recognizing the student's achievement level
- Carrying out assessments as required by examination bodies, departmental, and school procedures
- Preparing and presenting informative reports to parents
- Participating in subject development by creating, reviewing, and updating curriculum plans and schemes of work
- Keeping subject knowledge current through continuing professional development and professional reading
- Attending relevant professional development workshops
- Performing additional responsibilities as assigned by the Principal or Vice Principal.
Qualifications:
Applicants must be fully qualified teachers with:
- A passion for education and a caring disposition
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Social Studies/History or a related field, along with a PGCE or equivalent teaching qualification, and at least two years of teaching experience in the relevant area
- Familiarity with the American curriculum
- A commitment to a comprehensive enrichment program
- Recent active involvement in extracurricular activities
- A respectful attitude
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