Overview

Job Description
The Secondary English Teacher is responsible for planning and delivering high-quality English lessons in accordance with the British Curriculum, enabling students to develop strong skills in reading, writing, speaking, listening, grammar, vocabulary and literary analysis.
Key Responsibilities:
- Plan and deliver engaging English lessons for secondary students in line with the British Curriculum.
- Teach English Language and English Literature, as appropriate to the school’s Key Stage and examination specifications.
- Develop students’ reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.
- Teach a wide range of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama and literary texts.
- Prepare students for GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level or other relevant British examinations, where applicable.
- Develop students’ analytical, critical-thinking, creative-writing and communication skills.
- Plan lessons with clear learning objectives, appropriate challenge and measurable outcomes.
- Differentiate learning activities and resources to meet the needs of students with different abilities, including high-achieving students and students requiring additional support.
- Use a range of teaching strategies to promote active participation, independent learning and student engagement.
- Regularly assess students’ progress through formative and summative assessment.
- Provide constructive and timely feedback that helps students improve their work.
- Maintain accurate records of student attainment, progress and assessment.
- Use assessment data to identify learning gaps and adapt teaching accordingly.
- Establish high expectations for behaviour, effort, academic achievement and personal development.
Skills Description
- Excellent classroom-management skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience working with students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds
- Experience teaching GCSE/IGCSE English Language and Literature.
- Experience with EAL/ESL learners.
- Experience with curriculum development.
- Experience using educational technology.
- Experience with school inspections and quality assurance.
- Participation in extracurricular English, literary or performing-arts activities
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.
