MS / HS ELA Teacher

Job Summary

Teach in Dubai! Middle School English 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, [coding and design] 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.

Interviews are conducted through Skype/ Google Meet.

Additional School Requirements

Qualifications

• Major in English
• 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
• Candidates must have experience teaching in a US district school offering the Common Core State Standards (New York State experience preferred)
• Fluent English speaker

MUST have the following to be considered

• US Passport Holder (valid 6 months or greater)
  2 or more years of certified teaching experience in the United States for the position applying for
• Bachelor’s Degree or Higher
  Current Resume
• 3 Current References to supply if offered a position: one from a direct, current supervisor (Principal, Assistant/Association Principal, Superintendent/Head of School)
• Experience Certificate (if 2 years or more completed at a school in the UAE)
• Preference is given to those who currently reside in Dubai or the UAE
• COVID Vaccination (proof) or willingness to get vaccinated upon arrival

Job Benefits

• Tax-free salary paid on a scale linked to teaching experience up to 13,000 AED per month
• End of service gratuity
• Housing allowance
• Joining and departure economy class flights to/from Dubai to the home of record for self
• Annual flights from to home of record [Economy class] for self, taken once during annual leave
• UAE-medical insurance for self
• 2,000 AED settling-in allowance
• 2-year renewable contract with option for renewal
• Visa processing costs (excluding document certification) for self
• Excellent career and leadership prospects

School Requirements:

• Education Required: Bachelor
• Minimum Teaching Experience: 2 years of teaching experience
• Major: English
• Required Certificates:
  Teaching Credential/License

• Work Visa Eligibility: United States (USA)

• Contract Length: 2 years
• Number of Vacancies: 1
• Student Level:
  Middle School, High School
• Eligible Candidates:
  Licensed Teacher