22 Oct
Ignite School
Dubai
Number of Vacancies : 2 Student Level :
Middle School, High School
Eligible Candidates :
Licensed Teacher
School Requirements :
- Education Required : Bachelor
- Minimum Teaching Experience : 2 years of teaching experience
- Major : science
- Required Certificates : Teaching Credential / License
Additional School Requirements :
Qualifications :
- Teaching Credential / License
- Valid teacher certification for the subject and level you are being hired to teach.
- Candidates holding valid and relevant New York State Teaching certifications are preferred.
- 2 years of recent professional work experience in the education field as Science in the US curriculum.
- Minimum of Bachelor’s degree and ideally a Masters.
- Candidates must have experience teaching in a US district school offering the Common Core State Standards (New York State experience preferred).
- Fluent English speaker.
Job Benefits :
- Tax-free salary paid on a scale linked to teaching experience up to 13,000 AED per month.
- Housing allowance paid quarterly to an employee for self.
- End of service gratuity.
- Joining and departing 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 an option for renewal.
- Visa processing costs (excluding document certification) for self.
- Excellent career and leadership prospects.
- Positions of Additional Responsibility are available for suitable candidates wishing to take on greater roles within the school community.
Job Description :
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 extra-curricular 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 Meets.
This is a Direct to School Job This is a Direct to School Job About the School :
Ignite School offers a KG1 to Grade 12, American education experience leading to a High School Diploma for Emirati and expatriate students.
The Ignite School curriculum aligns to the New York State Learning Standards, which includes the New York State P-12 Common Core Learning Standards (moving to NYS Next Generation Standards) as well as KHDA guidelines.
Ignite School commenced classes in September 2018 and now has more than 1400 students enrolled for KG1 to Grade 9. We anticipate opening Grades 10 and 11 in 2024 / 25 followed by Grade 12 in 2025 / 26 with a capacity for 2,000 Emirati and expatriate students.
High School will offer Advanced Placement tracks. We have just achieved NEASC candidacy status and expect full accreditation in 2023 / 24.
When you join the Ignite School Community in Dubai and you will have the unique opportunity to shape school culture, develop and promote best teaching practices and experience living in the UAE.
Our vision is for all young people to experience that learning has lasting value beyond their life at school.
Our mission is to know the need of every student, collaboratively creating a student-centered,
sustainable 21st-century learning environment that fosters leadership, social cohesion, creativity, responsibility, and ambition providing a catalyst for abilities of lasting relevance to emerging.
Learning at Ignite is a student-centered and engaging process of acquiring new knowledge and skills. This empowers our students to be responsible and respectful global citizens, preserving Emirati and global cultural values.
Ignite students will be our future leaders and life-long learners who will be resilient, creative, inquisitive, and collaborative forces within their communities.
The Core Values that best express what we strive to impart to our students are Collaborative, Respectful, Responsible, Creative, and Leadership.
Come join our team!
This is a Direct to School Job This is a Direct to School Job About Dubai :
Drawing millions of visitors each year, Dubai allows teachers to experience a unique combination of traditional Middle Eastern ways of life and an upscale expatriate lifestyle.
Dubai's many private schools provide opportunities for licensed teachers to teach in one of the most exciting and dynamic modern cities in the world.
Language : Arabic Population : 2,106,177 Currency : UAE Dirham Major Religion(s) : Islam Climate : Hot desert climate Size : 4,114 km² This is a Direct to School Job This is a Direct to School Job