Classroom Assistant - UAE National - Al Qurm Charter School

Job Description

AQS follows the US Curriculum and is a large and thriving Charter School, with over 600 students from KG1 to Grade 5. The AQS aim is to be a collaborative, student‑centred school, to constantly develop staff, to develop stakeholder voice and to keep evolving in our practice, so demonstrating a change agent attitude. The successful candidate will be closely aligned with our core values:
Respect, Collaboration, Passion, Integrity and Excellence and our ethos, ‘Aspire, Believe, Achieve’. This is an exciting opportunity to join the highly successful Aldar family of schools and to help shape the future of Abu Dhabi’s leading school group.

• 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.
• Set a good example in terms of dress, punctuality and attendance.
• Attend team and staff meetings as required.
• Work with other professionals e.g. speech therapists, occupational therapists, etc. as necessary.
• Undertake other duties from time to time as the principal requires.
• 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.

• To have a minimum secondary school certificate.

• At least two‑year experience in the school field.

• English language skills or the language applied in the school curriculum.