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The Aga Khan Academy Nairobi is operated by Aga Khan Education Service Kenya (AKESK), a non-profit organization, with close to a hundred years’ experience operating schools in Kenya. Our first formal schools were opened in 1918, and AKESK currently operates 11 schools in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu and Eldoret, serving close to 5,000 students with a quality, ...

Role Summary

The teacher will ensure the students recognize and use language as a vehicle of thought, reflection, self-expression and learning in other subjects, and as a tool for enhancing literacy. This will allow the students understand the nature of language and the process of linguistic integration, cultural and social components. The teacher should focus on effective teamwork and collaboration, use differentiation to meet the needs of the learners and the teaching and learning should be informed by formative and summative assessments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaboratively plan units of study designed for maximizing learning for all students.
• Deliver effective, differentiated and inquiry-based lessons in a friendly and supportive atmosphere.
• Create a safe and conducive environment in which the students can learn and thrive.
• Use varied, adequate assessments, including formative and summative assessment in line with the IBO requirements.
• Engage parents regularly and effectively in the education of their children.
• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the relevant subject and modern pedagogy.
• Accurately evaluate and comment on both the ability and developmental potential of each student.
• Effectively communicate with students, colleagues and parents, including through email and the school information system.
• Demonstrate an experience of high professional values and practices.
• Show profound commitment to ongoing professional growth and to taking on responsibility for fulfilling the vision and philosophy of the Aga Khan Academy, Nairobi.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in the respective field.
• 5 years’ of IB Middle Years’ Programme and/or IB Diploma teaching experience as well as previous Middle Years’ Programme experience.
• Teachers Service Commission (TSC) registration certificate.

• Collaboratively plan units of study designed for maximizing learning for all students.
• Deliver effective, differentiated and inquiry-based lessons in a friendly and supportive atmosphere.
• Create a safe and conducive environment in which the students can learn and thrive.
• Use varied, adequate assessments, including formative and summative assessment in line with the IBO requirements.
• Engage parents regularly and effectively in the education of their children.
• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the relevant subject and modern pedagogy.
• Accurately evaluate and comment on both the ability and developmental potential of each student.
• Effectively communicate with students, colleagues and parents, including through email and the school information system.
• Demonstrate an experience of high professional values and practices.
• Show profound commitment to ongoing professional growth and to taking on responsibility for fulfilling the vision and philosophy of the Aga Khan Academy, Nairobi.

• Bachelor’s degree in the respective field.
• 5 years’ of IB Middle Years’ Programme and/or IB Diploma teaching experience as well as previous Middle Years’ Programme experience.
• Teachers Service Commission (TSC) registration certificate.