Kindergarten Teacher

Job Summary

• Teach basic skills such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.
• Establish and enforce rules for behavior, and policies and procedures to maintain order among students.
• Observe and evaluate children’s performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
• Instruct students individually and in groups, adapting teaching methods to meet students’ varying needs and interests.
• Read books to entire classes or to small groups.
• Demonstrate activities to children.
• Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.
• Confer with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students’ behavioral and academic problems.
• Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate those objectives to children.
• Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development such as games, arts and crafts, music, and storytelling.
• Identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems, and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists.
• Prepare materials, classrooms, and other indoor and outdoor spaces to facilitate creative play, learning and motor-skill activities, and safety.
• Collaborate with other teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of kindergarten programs.
• Prepare, administer, and grade tests and assignments to evaluate children’s progress.
• Involve parent volunteers and older students in children’s activities, to facilitate involvement in focused, complex play.

Other requirements

• Willing to relocate in Abu Dhabi
• Kindergarten teaching experience preferred