Lower Elementary Homeroom Teacher

**Job type**:
Full Time, Fixed Term

**Start date**:
01/08/2025

28 February 2025

**Job overview**:
**Responsibilities**:
**Planning and Preparation for Learning**
- Plan lessons and units by following the AISJ curriculum framework in collaboration with the other grade level teachers
- Supports in developing curriculum documentation that reflect horizontal and vertical alignment
- Demonstrates planning with consideration of differentiation needs, scholar engagement, and anticipates scholars’ misconceptions and confusions
- Demonstrates a plan for summative and formative assessments to monitor scholar learning
- Demonstrates content knowledge in the areas of reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and social emotional learning.

**Classroom Management**
- Is direct, specific, consistent, and tenacious in communicating and enforcing very high expectations.
- Shows **warmth**, **caring**, **respect**, and fairness for all scholars and builds strong relationships.
- Successfully inculcates class routines up front so that scholars maintain them throughout the year.
- Gets all scholars to be self-disciplined, take responsibility for their actions, and have a strong sense of efficacy

**Professional Responsibilities**
- Designs each lesson with clear, measurable goals closely aligned with standards and unit outcomes.
- Collaborates with colleagues to plan units, share teaching ideas, and look at scholar work.
- Seeks out effective teaching ideas from colleagues, workshops, and other sources and implements them well.

**Delivery of Instruction**
- Promotes scholar-centered learning through highly effective strategies, materials, and groupings to involve and motivate all scholars
- Promotes inquiry-based and concept-based learning
- Supports scholars with understanding of their strengths and opportunities for development, setting their goals, and action planning
- Promotes agency among scholars including voice, choice, and ownership
- Successfully reaches all scholars by skillfully differentiating and scaffolding

**Monitoring Assessment & Follow-up**
- Frequently checks for understanding, adjusting teaching, re-teaching and following-up from the data
- Analyzes and reflects on collected data to continuously ensure lesson & unit plans are designed to meet scholar needs
- Gives scholars a well constructed diagnostic assessment up front, and uses the information to fine-tune instruction.
- Has scholars set ambitious goals, continuously self-assess, give feedback, and take responsibility for improving performance.
- Help scholars develop as self-assessors and self-adjusters

**Family and Community Outreach**
- Communicates respectfully with parents and is sensitive to different families’ cultures and values.
- Shows parents a genuine interest and belief in each child’s ability to reach standards.
- Gives parents clear expectations for scholar learning and behavior for the year.
- Promptly informs parents of behavior and learning problems, and also updates parents on good news.
- Updates parents on the unfolding curriculum and suggests ways to support learning at home.
- Responds promptly to parents' concerns and make parents feel welcome in the school.

**Other Responsibilities**
- Engage with community in after-school activities
- Engage with community in open communication
- Supervision duties will be assigned
- After School Activity (1/week) and office hours (2/week)

**About**American International School of Neom (AISJ)**:
**American International School of Neom (AISJ)**
- PO Box 127328, Jeddah & Neom
- 21352
- Saudi Arabia

+966 2 232 8668