Opportunity of a lifetime for teachers and educational leaders

Are you an experienced teacher or educational leader who is committed to high educational standards? Are you innovative, flexible, adventurous, technologically savvy, a team player/leader and desirous of contributing to the development of a national school reform program? If you are, then you may be among the employees we are seeking to make successful the ambitious project undertaken by the Ministry of Education in the United Arab Emirates.

Recent decisions by the leadership of the United Arab Emirates have made development of a world-class public education system a top priority for the country. Beginning in August 2007, the first stages of implementation of the new system, the Al Ghad Schools program, will begin in a cohort of fifty schools with others added in subsequent years. A new curriculum in English will be introduced in Grades 6, 10, 11 and 12 with Science and Mathematics to follow in subsequent years. The Grade 1 schools will integrate the teaching of English with Mathematics and Science taught in English. A second part of the Al Ghad Schools program, to be developed a bit later, will be in an Arabic language medium. Graduates of the Al Ghad Schools program will be fully bilingual, knowledgeable about their rich culture and heritage, educated in an active learning environment, skilled in the use of information technology, soundly grounded in Mathematics and Science and prepared for higher education, successful careers, healthy lives and parenthood, all within a global context.

The Al Ghad Schools program offers excellent opportunities to be a part of a multi-national team engaged in national school reform, to enhance credentials and to acquire new skills through an extensive professional development program. The primary language of instruction for the first phase of the Al Ghad Schools program is English; candidates with teaching credentials and strong language skills in both Arabic and English (IELTS 5.5-6.0 or TOEFL equivalent) are highly sought, especially for the Primary Schools.