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Salwa, Kuwait
Free 2 bedroom/2 bath apartment (single accommodations) with phone, utilities, and cable TV
School provides a roundtrip airfare to point of origin every summer
Ongoing
2 years
1
- High School
- Licensed Teacher
- Bachelor
- 1 year of teaching experience
- Spanish
- Teaching Credential/License
- United States (USA), United Kingdom (UK), Canada, South Africa, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Colombia
Qualifications:
- Has a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish.
- Has minimum teaching experience of one year.
- End of service indemnity: Half a month's salary for each year taught at AAG for the first 5 years of service and a full month's salary starting with the 6th year and onward, received upon completion of service.
- Relocation allowance: 120 KD, payable upon arrival
- Personal days: 3 per academic year (10 KD paid for each day not used at the end of the year)
- Sick leave: 6 per academic year
- Contract: Paid over 12 months, including school holidays, with pay
- Emergency leave: Handled case-by-case
- Bereavement leave: Five days with pay/five days without pay for immediate family members
- Airline ticket: Provided to and from your point of origin every summer
- Extra baggage allowance: 65 KD
- Housing: Furnished apartment (2 bedrooms) with phone, free utilities, and cable TV
- Transportation: Provided to and from school
- Medical care: Subsidized private (90% paid by Board) health insurance
- Professional Dev: Provided by the school
- Dependents: 40% discounted tuition for dependents
Responsibilities:
- Maintain accurate attendance and tardy records.
- Complete inventory tasks as required.
- Use nurse folders when you are in the student’s classroom.
- Maintain up-to-date and attractive bulletin boards, including student work.
- Foster a healthy and safe classroom environment.
- Report maintenance needs.
- Send photocopying with correct forms a minimum of two days ahead.
- Ensure to leave the classroom as received.
- Be respectful of homeroom teacher property while in the classroom.
- Receive students on time.
- Conclude class on time.
- Submit yearly plans and weekly lesson plans.
- Attend staff meetings and other meetings assigned by the administration.
- Participate actively in department events.
- Prepare students for special events such as a spring concert or graduation.
AAG has been in existence since 1996 providing educational programs to Kuwaiti girls. AAG is a single-gender school for girls that uses an American curriculum that is aligned with Common Core Standards to prepare all students for success in Early Childhood, elementary, middle, and high school levels, university, careers, and community leadership.
Our school has four divisions:
We have 975 total students enrolled in our school. All our core subjects: English, Math, Science, and Social Studies are taught in English as the primary language except for Arabic, Religion, and Koran classes which are taught in Arabic and the curriculum comes from the Ministry of Education. Our school offers an array of opportunities academically including AP courses and extra-curriculum activities such as Athletics, M.U.N., Academic Games, After-school clubs, etc.
In addition, we offer Arabic as a Foreign Language for those students who have permission from the Ministry of Education. AAG consists of a staff that is diverse and dedicated to ensuring our students are successful.
Licensed teachers can teach in Kuwait's private international schools for the chance to experience life in the Middle East while earning an excellent salary and benefits. Hot and sunny year-round, Kuwait's welcoming residents and beautiful weather make for an incredible experience teaching overseas.
Kuwait City
Arabic, English
4.35 million (140th)
Islam, Christianity
Hot/Humid
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