Facilitator of Learning – Grade K-4

  • Full-time

Company Description

Mavericks embraces and leverages innovative teaching methods and technology to develop the unique potential of its students in a community that values high scholarship, a global perspective, social responsibility, and the freedom to pursue one’s passions.

We envision millions of leaders who are equipped with 21st century skills and are capable of solving the world's toughest problems.

To fulfill this vision, we chose a mission to make world class education available and accessible to everyone, everywhere, without any barriers.

Our core purpose is to provide equitable access for anyone to receive the best education possible and strive for fulfillment, prosperity and socioeconomic mobility.

Job Description

Objectives and Key Results:

  • Empower the absolute majority of class students to achieve competence and proven mastery in their learning outcomes
  • Enable holistic child development through implementing learning activities that nurture mental, social, psychological and physical development
  • Create a living example of Mavericks' culture and core values within the classroom
  • Build an engaging learning environment for students and parents, both in and out of class

Essential Job Responsibilities

  • Updating and maintaining student portfolios
  • Analyzing student portfolios to provide recommendations for PLPs
  • Checking student worksheets and following up on their online assessments and playlists
  • Checking students’ attendance and communicating with parents of absent students (send activities and worksheets).
  • Setting up learning activity materials
  • Testing experiments and all activities and reports results to Master Teacher
  • Testing online games and applications
  • Making sure applications are downloaded and with appropriate settings
  • Making sure students' activities and assessments are captured on Mavericks learning platform
  • Reports to: School Leader (solid line) – Master Teacher (dotted line)

Contract: A full-time contract following the laws and regulations of the Egyptian government. First three months will be a probation period. Contract is one year long and automatically renews unless otherwise decided by the employer.

Qualifications

We Expect You to:

  • Understand, embrace and implement Mavericks model, concepts and values
  • Learn actively, seek continuous development and to always you’re your professional boundaries
  • Be open for new concepts and ideas, embrace change and provide constructive feedback
  • Provide a learning environment that taps into students' intrinsic motivation, and in which students get to do most of the work independently and actively
  • Engage your students' senses through hands-on activities, and to take into consideration how children think and behave
  • Listen to everyone, no matter how silly their ideas are, and to communicate your ideas well
  • Know how to align learning activities with respective learning theories, and to be aware of the importance of the learning process
  • Display confidence and take initiative, and to always seek creating a good team
  • Always look for the best practices, which are backed up by thorough research, and to seek them as your benchmarks.
  • Develop original Ideas when best practices are unavailable or inexistent, and to base your ideas on empirical evidence
  • Use technology as a resource to empower your students' learning and your own professional development

An ideal candidate would:

· Have 2 years + of teaching experience for elementary/primary school students

· Have a multicultural experience and background

· Have excellent command of English (for Arabic teachers, FoL needs to be a native speaker)

· Be acquainted with blended learning pedagogies and learning environments

· Have trained as a teacher with an established academic or professional institution

· A strong communicator who is able to persuade others with her own ideas and listen empathically to others

· A balanced person who seeks own and other's development of the mind, body and soul

· A fast learner who is self-motivated to acquire knowledge and skills in every opportunity


Additional Information

Compensation & Benefits

  • A locally competitive salary with an annual inflation increase, subject to increase according to individual and school performance
  • Professional Development: a blended learning professional development program – at least 12 days a year
  • Paid Vacation Days – 21 days
  • Social Insurance
  • Medical Insurance

Start Date: August, 2017

Kindly note that any application without CV will not be considered 

Please let us know if you have any inquiries or questions.