Job Description
Job Description:
Teach in Dubai! Middle School ELA/SST Teacher required for an immediate start! Ignite School recruits motivated, dynamic, qualified, and experienced international faculty who are best able to engage our students in creative and innovative learning. The staff of Ignite School is supported by a peer-led professional learning community shaped by reflective practice and collaboration. Ignite School shapes creative and innovative “21st-century citizens of the world” through a sustainability-focused, student-centered learning environment that celebrates diversity. We seek to instill exemplary character and life-long learning skills in our students through inclusive school life programs and extracurricular activities that empower and challenge the realization of potential in each of our learners. Every Ignite School student feels welcome, accepted, safe, valued, and happy. Host-country national students feel they have the potential to make a valuable social, cultural, and economic contribution to the well-being of their local community and their country. The American curriculum is rigorous, relevant, and service-oriented with a curriculum design that adheres to international best practices. Our inquiry-based learning model provides a platform for the development of creative processes that weave together sustainable development, science, mathematics, technology, analysis, logic, debate, and innovation. Our holistic approach to learning encourages the physical, social, intellectual, and emotional development of our students through real-world experiences as well as inside our high-quality learning facilities. With the aid of learning technology, students develop the 21st-century citizenship skills of critical thinking, complex problem solving, collaboration, cognitive flexibility, emotional intelligence, and creativity.
Education Required:
- Bachelor’s degree, ideally a Bachelor or Master of Education
Qualifications:
- Teaching Credential/License, US Certified
- Valid teacher certification for the subject and level you are being hired to teach
- Candidates holding valid and relevant New York State teacher certification preferred
- 2 years of recent post-certification teaching experience
- Fluent English speaker
Experience Required:
- Minimum of 2 years of teaching experience
- Experience teaching in a US district school offering the Common Core State Standards (New York State experience preferred)
Job Benefits:
- Full air fare
- Housing allowance paid to employees for self or furnished hotel apartments
Interviews are conducted through Skype/Google Meet.