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High School Counselor

The American Academy for Girls

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

Job
School

Contract Length: 2 years

Number of Vacancies: 1

Student Level:

High School

Eligible Candidates:

Licensed Teacher

School Requirements:

Education Required: Bachelor
Minimum Teaching Experience: 1 year of teaching experience
Major: Psychology
Required Certificates:
Teaching Credential/License
Other Certification
Work Visa Eligibility: United States (USA), Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand

Additional School Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Psychology preferable with certification in school Guidance Counseling.
A minimum 1 year of teaching students experience
Evidence of interpersonal relations skills i.e. dealing with parents, students and teachers
Ability to read & write English with clarity

Job Benefits:

End of service indemnity: Half a month's salary for each year taught at AAG for the first 5 years of service to be 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: Discounted tuition for dependents

Job Description:

Counseling:

Referral series: self, teacher, parent, school resource personnel, and administrators.
Issues of personal/social nature such as peer relationships, goal-setting, problem-solving, time management.
Academic concerns such as classroom difficulties, course selection, academic planning and expectations, and study skills.
Organize and instruct Character Education Curriculum where needed.

Academic Planning:

Develop a comprehensive School Guidance Program.
Provide teachers with pertinent information of students with specific problems (health, personal, learning disabilities, psychological problems, etc.).
Administer MAP assessment tests.
Meet with teachers about class placement for the upcoming school year.
Identify student in danger of failing for the year.
Schedule and chair parent conferences.
Document students who are in support programs.
Schedule/attend parent conferences with principal concerning students who are not performing up to grade level.
Advise parents on summer school.
Administer standardized testing.

Administrative/Interdepartmental:

Maintain school calendar.
Maintain/ safeguard student files (counseling office).
Develop class list/schedules.
Initiate referrals for psychological counseling/assessment.
Liaison with psychologist.
Attend counselor's network meetings once per month.
Develop/maintain tutor list. Match tutor with student.

New students:

Administer entrance testing to all new student applicants.
Provide orientation for in-coming, new-to-the-school students.
Place in-coming students in appropriate grade level in consultation with Principal

This is a Direct to School Job

About the School:

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:

Early Childhood Education (Pre-K, KG-1, & KG-2) Elementary (grades 1 - 4) Middle (grades 5 - 8) High School (grades 9 - 12)

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.

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This is a Direct to School Job

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