Overview

CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL – DUBAI
Job Description
Primary Homeroom Teacher
About the Role
We are seeking an innovative, enthusiastic, and highly motivated Primary Teacher to join our Primary School. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering a high-quality, engaging, and inclusive learning experience that inspires curiosity, builds confidence, and enables every child to achieve their full potential.
Key Responsibilities
- Curriculum Planning & Delivery: Plan and deliver engaging, challenging, and well-sequenced lessons in line with the National Curriculum for England, adapting teaching to meet the needs of all learners.
- High-Quality Teaching: Use a range of effective teaching strategies, including Do Now, modelling, questioning, scaffolding, and formative assessment, to ensure strong progress and attainment.
- Literacy & Numeracy: Develop strong foundational skills in reading, writing, mathematics, and oracy, fostering a love of learning and encouraging pupils to become confident, independent learners.
- Child-Centred Learning Environment: Create a safe, stimulating, and inclusive classroom environment that promotes curiosity, collaboration, independence, and positive attitudes towards learning.
- Assessment & Progress: Use ongoing formative and summative assessment to identify strengths and areas for development, provide targeted support, and ensure that all pupils make strong progress.
- Inclusion & Wellbeing: Provide appropriate challenge and support for all learners, including Students of Determination and pupils with English as an Additional Language (EAL), while promoting positive wellbeing and behaviour.
- Parent Partnership: Establish positive and professional relationships with parents through regular communication, progress updates, meetings, and school events to strengthen the home-school partnership.
- Professional Development: Engage actively in phase and team meetings, coaching, CPD, and professional learning opportunities to continually develop teaching practice.
- Community & School Life: Contribute positively to the wider life of the school, including enrichment activities, school events, trips, assemblies, and whole-school initiatives.
- School Improvement: Support the implementation of school improvement priorities and contribute to a culture of high expectations, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Skills Description
Skills & Experience
Essential Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Education or a relevant subject.
- Teaching Qualification: Recognised teaching qualification, such as B.Ed., or equivalent.
- Experience: Minimum of 2 years of successful primary teaching experience, preferably within a British curriculum or international school.
- Curriculum Knowledge: Strong knowledge and understanding of the National Curriculum for England, including effective approaches to teaching English and mathematics.
Desirable Attributes
- Experience teaching within a British international school in the UAE or UK.
About GEMS Education
Trusted for over 55 years and now a third generation education family, GEMS Education began in a single school room in Dubai. Today, we have the privilege of educating over 190,000 students from over 176 countries through GEMS owned and managed schools globally; over 270,000 students access resources through our services division; and we will impact 20 million by 2020 students through the initiatives of our Charity partner Varkey Foundation.
