Kindergarten Homeroom Teacher
Al Ain American School
Total years of experience :9 years, 8 Months
• Facilitates learning of students and ensures progress in line with school and curriculum expectations, whilst in a safe and
happy environment.
• Use excellent subject knowledge, pedagogic and interpersonal skills to enthuse students and enable students to enjoy
learning.
• Evaluating and developing the curriculum framework based on the guidelines of the Common Core Standards as per
ADEK expectations.
• Plan lessons taking in full account of student’s individual learning needs, as well as their individual learning styles,
preferences and capabilities.
• Deliver a program of learning opportunities and activities to enrich and enhance the taught curriculum.
• Engage and motivate students to achieve at levels beyond the expectations and previous limits.
• Assess and record students’ progress and provide grades and feedback.
• Make full use of ICT and new technologies to enhance the quality of teaching and learning for student’s attainment levels.
• Co-operate with colleagues to establish and maintain fair, consistent and positive behavior management in classroom,
around the school and on school trips.
• Participate in ongoing in service and education development opportunities.
• Observe and understand students’ behavior and psyche and report suspicions of neglect, abuse etc.
• Present lessons in a comprehensive manner and use visual/audio means to facilitate learning.
• Provide individualized instruction to each student by promoting interactive learning.
• Designing innovative approaches in teaching methods like technology integration across the curriculum experiential learning, literacy and diversity.
• Making effective use of online, audio and video resources to achieve academic aims and objectives.
• Establishing effective classroom management practices; collaborating working with other teaching staff to set goals, objectives and methods.
• Assess and record students’ progress and provide grades and feedback
• Prepared plans for KHDA inspection and organized resources and activities for KHDA inspection.
• Collaborate with other teachers, parents and participate in regular meetings.
• Plan and execute educational in-class and outdoor activities and events.
• Observe and understand students’ behavior and psyche and report suspicions of neglect, abuse etc.
• Collaborating with parents, guardians, support workers, and other professionals to safeguard and ensure the educational welfare of students who may have special educational needs (SEN).
• Meeting with other professionals such as education welfare officers and educational psychologists.\ Ensuring that schemes and forecast of work carried out in class are handed to the LSA in good time so that the necessary adaptations and resources are made for use with students with individual educational needs in class.
• Advising and co-operating with other teachers in the preparation and development of courses of study, teaching materials, teaching programs, methods of teaching and assessment.
• Reviewing and evaluating one’s own teaching and learning strategies, methodologies, and program/s in line with the National Curriculum Framework guidelines.
• In-charge of events like Graduation Day, Sports Day, Grandparents Day, Cooking competition, Fancy Dress Competition, Puppet show.
• Planning and implementing strategic operational plans for yielding higher growth and results.
• Evaluating curriculum, teaching methods & programs to determine their effectiveness and efficiency, thereby ensuring that activities comply with state regulations.
• Teaching students based on national curriculum guidelines within specific subject areas.
• Planning, preparing, and delivering lessons.
• Encouraging student participation in lessons and in other school-related activities.
• Supporting the leadership team to implement the school’s development plan.
• Establishing effective classroom management practices; collaborating working with other teaching staffs to set goals, objectives and methods.
• Providing educational and social guidance to students and/or signposting them to specialist areas of advice when needed.
• Ensuring the highest standards of quality and applying the most up-to-date teaching methods.
• Taking part in opportunities to boost my own learning and continuous professional development (CPD).
• Attending and taking part in staff meetings to support the smooth running and administration of the school.
• Researched novel materials and resources for primary school program, preparing the resource list and arranging resources for differentiated activities resulting in the betterment of students understanding
• Directed Student Comp, a reading comprehension exercise which resulted in a 70% increase in students’ participating in reading activities and story telling.
• Enriched students learning environment by incorporating short history, art and literature lessons into original curriculum.
• Teaching all areas of the primary curriculum
• Taking responsibility for the progress of a class of primary-age pupils
• Organizing the classroom and learning resources and creating displays to encourage a positive learning environment
• Planning, preparing and presenting lessons that cater for the needs of the whole ability range within the class
• Motivating pupils with enthusiastic, imaginative presentation
• Maintaining discipline
• Preparing and marking work to facilitate positive pupil development
• Meeting requirements for the assessment and recording of pupils' development
• Providing feedback to parents and careers on a pupil's progress at parents' evenings and other meetings.
• Coordinating activities and resources within a specific area of the curriculum and supporting colleagues in the delivery of this specialist area.
• Working with others to plan and coordinate work.
• Keeping up to date with changes and developments in the structure of the curriculum.