Classroom Assistant UAE National - Bateen World Academy Immediate Start

Aldar Education is currently seeking a Classroom Assistant (UAE National) for Bateen World Academy in Abu Dhabi commencing immediately.

Located in the center of the city of Abu Dhabi, Bateen World Academy is a hugely popular school based in a vibrant community. The school is a high-achieving British and IB World School, recognised for excellence and consistently exceeding IB Diploma global averages while achieving outstanding I/GCSE results. As an established and outstanding institution, the school offers the IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) from FS1 to Year 6, and the IB Diploma Programme (DP) and Career-related Programme (CP) in Years 12 and 13. This provides the community with a seamless, all-through school experience from FS1 to Year 13, combining the best of PYP, UK, and IB pathways.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the highly successful Aldar family of schools and to help shape the future of Abu Dhabis leading school group.

The successful candidates will be closely aligned with our core values and ethos and possess a genuine understanding and appreciation of the values of the region.

Responsibilities

Main Duties:  

• Provide support for individual pupils / groups of pupils inside and outside the classroom to enable them to fully participate in a range of activities during the school day and to provide for their social, emotional and physical well-being 
• Be pro-active in matters relating to health and safety 
• Assist in the implementation of individual education programmes for individual pupils / groups of pupils and help monitor their progress 
• Support pupils with additional support needs e.g. emotional and behavioural difficulties and help to develop their social skills 
• Assist class teachers with maintaining pupil records 
• Prepare and present displays of pupils’ work 
• Support class teachers in photocopying and other tasks in order to support teaching 
• Support the aims of the school; comply with the requirements of health and safety, other relevant legislation and school policies. 

Specific Duties: 

• Academic assistance. 
• Giving group instruction as prescribed by the teacher/providing individual instruction. 
• Demonstrating various instructional activities. 
• Monitoring work assigned by teacher – checking and correcting pupils’ work while in progress. 
• Keeping pupils on task. 
• Praising and reinforcing achievements of pupils/reporting pupil progress to teacher. 
• Reorganising materials at the end of the day. 
• Checking attendance. 
• Supervising pupils in the classrooms and other locations. 
• Participating in development of behaviour policy/promoting pupils self esteem. 
• Disciplining misbehaviour in line with the whole school policy.

Qualifications