Primary Teacher

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

On-site

23 Octob​er 2026

JB

Harrow International School Abu Dhabi is seeking a dedicated Primary Teacher to join the team for the August 2027 academic year. This role involves delivering high-quality education within the Harrow tradition, fostering an environment of academic excellence, and contributing to the school’s vibrant community.

• Plan and deliver lessons of the highest quality, characterised by intellectual rigour, engagement, and creativity, ensuring all pupils are challenged, supported, and inspired to achieve their full potential.
• Differentiate and adapt teaching and learning with precision, enabling each child to flourish academically and personally, in keeping with the Harrow tradition of nurturing individual strengths.
• Establish a purposeful, inclusive, and aspirational classroom culture, setting uncompromising expectations that foster curiosity, independence, and intellectual courage.
• Maintain a stimulating, orderly, and well‑resourced learning environment, reflective of Harrow’s standards of excellence, and conducive to scholarship and collaboration.
• Implement robust formative and summative assessment practices, using insight and evidence to recognise achievement, inform planning, and accelerate progress.
• Embrace innovation, technology, and future‑focused pedagogies to enrich pupils’ experiences and prepare them for life beyond Harrow Abu Dhabi.
• Contribute to the design, development, and continual refinement of the curriculum, ensuring it embodies academic rigour, coherence, and alignment with both international and national frameworks, while reflecting the distinctive ethos of Harrow Abu Dhabi.
• Prepare pupils with confidence and resilience for assessments and examinations, equipping them with the skills, habits, and intellectual courage required for the next stage of their Harrow journey and beyond.
• Provide incisive, constructive, and timely feedback, maintaining meticulous records of achievement that inform planning and celebrate progress.
• Engage with leading educational research and subject‑specific developments, integrating innovative approaches and evidence‑based practice into curriculum design and classroom delivery.
• Enrich the academic experience through cross‑curricular initiatives, competitions, and cultural encounters, broadening pupils’ perspectives and fostering curiosity beyond subject boundaries.
• Play an active role in the co‑curricular life of the School, contributing to electives, academic societies, lectures, and extension opportunities that embody Harrow’s tradition of scholarship and breadth.
• Collaborate purposefully with colleagues, sharing best practice and contributing to the collective advancement of teaching and learning across Harrow Abu Dhabi.
• Provide exemplary pastoral care, nurturing pupils’ personal, social, and emotional development, and ensuring that every child feels known, valued, and supported.
• Uphold the highest standards of safeguarding, child protection, and pupil welfare, maintaining unwavering compliance with Harrow Abu Dhabi policies, UAE regulations, and international best practice.
• Communicate proactively and sensitively with parents, maintaining accurate, timely records of all relevant interactions, and fostering strong partnerships.

Under the sub‑licence, the schools are required to reflect Harrow School’s educational purpose, practice, strategy and philosophy and each is regularly evaluated by representatives of HISL.

Full Time

Any Nationality

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