Instructor, Preparatory Health and Medical Program

Job Summary

INTRODUCTION

The Preparatory Program at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University is a bridge program between high school and admission into degree programs. All faculty in the program must understand, believe in, and successfully implement methodology, techniques, and classroom management that are skills-based, student-centered, communicative, and interactive. They must be proficient in the use of technology, and, once trained, be able to use the Blackboard Learning Management System and the student information system Banner.

Since all record keeping, including attendance, assignments, and all quizzes, tests, and examinations is done online, the faculty must keep abreast of any training that is given in those areas. Faculty members are expected to participate, in one form or another, in continuous professional development training which is conducted prior to and during each academic year. Engagement is the keyword;

faculty are expected to be focused on truly engaging the students in English, study skills, and the soft skills comprised in the PMU core competencies.

Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University is inviting applications for the position of Instructor.

Levels, Courses. The program consists of four levels: pre‑beginner, beginner, intermediate, and advanced, corresponding, roughly, to CEFR levels A0‑high B1. The overall IELTS score of a student entering the advanced level, would be 5 with a 4.5 in writing. Under the Director, Chair and Associate Chair, each level has a level representative or coordinator to direct work on standardized assessments, guide the instructional activities of the level, and liaise with instructors and other coordinators on each campus as well as administrators.

The students weekly program involves 22 hours of direct instruction in English (a 10‑hour Communication Skills course: listening and speaking, vocabulary and grammar, a 10‑hour Writing Skills course: reading and writing, vocabulary and grammar, and a two‑hour project‑based Enhanced Learning course, plus, for those at the intermediate and advanced levels, a two‑hour Study Skills course, including instruction in Microsoft Office apps, taught by Preparatory Program instructors, and 5 hours of mathematics taught by mathematics instructors).

A Masters degree is required in EFL/ESL/TESOL/TEFL. Other masters degrees, such as in English literature or language, applied linguistics, reading, teaching of other languages, second language acquisition will be considered if the applicant has a Cambridge CELTA (or the equivalent CELTA or TEFL from, to mention but two possible examples, Trinity or International House) or the TESOL International Core certification or the equivalent*, or were willing, within the duration of the first contract, to obtain one of those certificates or do course work at their own expense in the following areas: language teaching methodologies, the nature of language/languages (e.g., introduction to linguistics), the structure of English (e.g., syntax, phonology, morphology, discourse), second language acquisition, intercultural communication (e.g., sociolinguistics, cross‑cultural studies), practicum experience (supervised).

PMU offers an income tax‑free compensation package, commensurate with rank and experience, including 12‑month salary, PMU accommodation, annual vacation, and annual round‑trip airfare to the home country, medical insurance and end of contract benefits.