English & Creative Media Teacher

Overview

Deira International School (DIS) is an Outstanding BSO- and KHDA-rated, award-winning school located on a beautiful campus in Festival City, Dubai. In 2023, DIS was awarded the Education Excellence Award for ‘School Team of the Year’ and is also a Platinum Award holder for ‘Best Place to Work’, reflecting our strong commitment to staff wellbeing and a thriving school community. With students aged 3–18, DIS is a not-for-profit school and part of the Al-Futtaim Education Foundation.

Founded in 2005, the school is renowned for providing an outstanding, inclusive, and holistic education. Our most recent inspection highlighted strengths: staff are overwhelmingly proud, teaching quality is outstanding, teachers have high expectations, staff feel respected, the curriculum is well planned, and there is a strong focus on academic progress and achievement. DIS is home to a diverse student body representing over 90 nationalities, with facilities that support a holistic approach across sport, performing arts, technology, leadership, creativity, and academic enrichment.

Although non-selective at admission, students achieve exceptional examination results and progress to leading universities worldwide. Digital literacy is embedded across the curriculum.

In the Early Years, personalised play-based continuous provision ensures students are assessed against the EYFS framework. In Primary, pupils benefit from a broad curriculum including non-core subjects. In Secondary, students complete IGCSEs in Year 11 before progressing to the IB Diploma Programme (IBDP) or IB Career-related Programme (IBCP) in Years 12 and 13. DIS is governed by the Al-Futtaim Education Foundation (AFEF), a not-for-profit initiative of the Al-Futtaim family, supporting KHDA objectives to deliver future-ready education while maximising social impact.

The successful candidate will join an outstanding department. As an English teacher at DIS, you will become part of a highly-skilled and passionate team who contribute to planning and delivering an engaging curriculum and support enrichment opportunities offered by English across the whole school. The IB English Language and Literature course is well-established within the department and its ethos shapes the journey of all English students from Year 7 upwards.

Our concept-focused curriculum allows students to develop their English skills alongside their learner behaviours and communication skills. Most teachers in the department teach across the three Key Stages to support staff development and empower staff to lead and take risks. At KS4, students study IGCSE English language and literature. GCSE results last academic year show 89% A*-B. In IB, 92% achieved Level 5 or above and 60% Level 6 or above.

The successful applicant will be required to have the following:

• Experience teaching GCSE English is essential and A Level/IB experience is desirable.
• A
  
  B.Ed. or degree in a related subject and PGCE / PGDE or equivalent with exceptional subject knowledge.
• A proven track record of outstanding learning and teaching.
• A mindset which understands all students have the potential for top performance, and the drive and passion to enable them to do so.
• Experience which will enable a contribution to our enriched curriculum programme.