High School Drama Teacher

ROLE OVERVIEW

The American International School of Jeddah (AISJ) is looking for a skilled and passionate High School Drama Teacher to join our performing arts faculty. This role is ideal for an educator who values professionalism, brings a spirit of collaboration, and sees every production and lesson as an opportunity to nurture student growth and confidence. We're seeking someone who not only teaches drama but also models integrity, professionalism, and a willingness to keep learning.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Curriculum Development: Build and refine a thoughtful, engaging drama curriculum aligned with school values and academic standards.

· Instruction: Guide students through diverse approaches to performance, encouraging personal expression, critical thinking, and ensemble work.

· Production Leadership: Direct school plays and performances, balancing artistic quality with inclusive participation.

· Collaboration: Partner with colleagues in the Performing Arts Department and other subject areas to create cross-curricular opportunities.

· Assessment: Offer meaningful feedback and track student progress through a variety of assessment tools.

· Learning Environment: Maintain a classroom culture that is respectful, inclusive, and supportive of creative risk-taking.

· Professional Growth: Engage in school-wide initiatives and pursue professional learning to stay current in best practices.

· School Life: Contribute to school events, productions, and community gatherings that reflect our vibrant learning environment.

Planning and Preparation for Learning

• Demonstrates lesson design with standards and unit outcomes in mind

• Demonstrates planning with consideration of differentiation needs, scholar engagement, and anticipates scholars’ misconceptions and confusions using a Unit Delivery Plan

• Demonstrates a plan for summative and formative assessments to monitor scholar learning

• Demonstrates content knowledge

• Review and update curriculum

Classroom Management

• Is direct, specific, consistent, and tenacious in communicating and enforcing very high expectations.

• Shows warmth, caring, respect, and fairness for all students and builds strong relationships.

• Successfully inculcates class routines up front so that students maintain them throughout the year.

• Gets all students to be self-disciplined, take responsibility for their actions, and have a strong sense of efficacy

• (follow up) Is alert, poised, dynamic, and self-assured and nips virtually all discipline problems in the bud.

Delivery of Instruction

• Orchestrates highly effective strategies, materials, and groupings to involve and motivate all scholars.

Professional Responsibilities

• Designs each lesson with clear, measurable goals closely aligned with standards and unit outcomes.

• Collaborates with colleagues to plan units, share teaching ideas, and look at student work.

• Seeks out effective teaching ideas from colleagues, workshops, and other sources and implements them well.

Gets all scholars highly involved in focused work in which they are active learners and problem-solvers.

• Successfully reaches all scholars by skillfully differentiating and scaffolding

Monitoring Assessment & Follow-up

• Frequently check for understanding and adjusting teaching, re-teaching and follow-up from the data

• Analyze and reflect on collected data to continuously ensure lesson & unit plans are designed to meet student needs

• Gives students a well-constructed diagnostic assessment up front, and uses the information to fine-tune instruction.

• Has students set ambitious goals, continuously self-assess, give feedback, and take responsibility for improving performance.

Family and Community Outreach

• Communicates respectfully with parents and is sensitive to different families’ cultures and values.

• Shows parents a genuine interest and belief in each child’s ability to reach standards.

• Gives parents clear expectations for student learning and behavior for the year.

• Promptly informs parents of behavior and learning problems, and also updates parents on good news.

• Updates parents on the unfolding curriculum and suggests ways to support learning at home.

• Responds promptly to parents' concerns and make parents feel welcome in the school.

Collaboration

• Working with colleagues to analyze data for placements and reflect on work (what worked and what did not work)

• Seeking and accepting feedback from colleagues to improve student growth

• Capitalizing on each other’s strengths and working with each other’s areas of growth

Other Responsibilities

• Engage with community in after-school activities

• Engage with community in open communication

Supervision duties will be assigned

• After School Activity (1/week) and office hours (2/week)

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Drama, Theater Arts, Performing

Arts Education, or a related field.

Certification: A valid teaching license is preferred.

Experience: Prior teaching experience in drama is highly valued.

Candidates who have taught using principles of public

performance aligned with AERO standards are especially

encouraged to apply.

What We’re Looking For:

· Strong communication and interpersonal skills

· A high level of professionalism and reliability

· Personal integrity and a deep respect for students and

colleagues

· A reflective mindset and genuine desire to grow

· The ability to inspire and connect with a diverse group of

learners

Preferred Attributes

· Knowledge of American and/or international curriculum

frameworks

· Experience directing theatrical productions and managing

performance logistics

· Comfort using educational technology in a creative context

· Sensitivity to cultural differences and experience

working in diverse settings