Creative Design Teacher (Al Ain)
Purpose: To create effective and stimulating learners-centered opportunities for learning through high quality instruction that enables the development and progression of all learners. To have enthusiasm for the subject matter that inspires others to have a lifelong love of learning and the motivation, skills and attitudes to be productive citizens contributing positively to the development of the country. Creative Design Teachers foster creativity while providing hands-on instruction in art and graphic design using traditional drawing techniques and the industry's popular software, audiovisual materials and book.
Principal Tasks and Responsibilities:
• Exercise leadership by taking personal responsibility for monitoring and assessing the progress of all learners
• Maximize efficiency, maintain discipline and morale, promote teamwork, plan, communicate, focus on results, evaluate progress, and make constant adjustments to their professional practice
• Use a range of strategies to promote positive relationships, cooperation, and purposeful learning in the classroomEngage learners in individual and cooperative learning activities that help them develop their knowledge, skills, understanding and attitudes for learning
• Organize, allocate, and manage the most appropriate educational resources to facilitate active and equitable engagement of learners in productive tasks
• Use a range of teaching and learning strategies to engage learners in active learning opportunities that promote the development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance capabilities and that help learners assume responsibility for identifying and using learning resources
• Use formal tests, responses to quizzes, evaluation of class assignments, learner performances, projects, and standardized achievement tests to understand what learners know
• Use formative assessment strategies that involve learners in self-assessment activities to help them become aware of their strengths and needs, and to encourage them to set personal goals for learning
• Maintain up to date records of learners work and performance and communicate learners progress knowledgeably and responsibly, based on appropriate indicators, to learners, parents, and other colleagues
• Keep the needs of learners at the center of all professional planning and decision-making
• Actively participate in staff development programmes and performance review
• Pursue further training and professional development as a teacher
• Prepare learners for qualifications and external examinations
• Participate in and support extracurricular activities, such as outings, social activities and sporting events
• Participate in departmental meetings and reviews as required
• Communicate and consult with parents on learner progress
• Actively participate in and support whole-school training events
• Provide guidance and advice to learners on educational and social matters
• Maintain a clear distinction between personal values and professional ethics
• Maintain discipline in accordance with the rules and disciplinary system of the institute
• Work collaboratively with colleagues, families, and the community to support the learning environment
• Uphold the Institute’s code of conduct and all school policies
• Undertake such other related duties as may be assigned from time to time by the institute. • Bachelor degree in Fine Arts from a recognized university. Masters degree is preferred
• Teaching Certificate / Diploma from a recognized university or equivalent
• 3 years’ of teaching experience in a reputable institute/school
• Academic IELTS Band 7 With state-of the-art facilities and excellent support services, the Institute of Applied Technology offers Career-based Technical Education (CTE) in English at the secondary and tertiary levels. In Addition, IAT encompasses well established higher learning programs in aviation, logistics and nursing. The institute has an overall of twenty campuses (fourteen schools, four colleges for Fatma College of Health Sciences and two colleges for Abu Dhabi Polytechnic), located in the United Arab Emirates in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Western Region, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Quwain, Ras Al Khaima and Al Fujairah; with its directorate based in Abu Dhabi.
The Institute was founded in 2005 through Royal decree of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, Ruler of Abu Dhabi as a corporate body with full financial and administrative independence. |