1 Creative Artist jobs in Kuwait

Contract Length: 2 years

Number of Vacancies: 1

Student Level:

- Early Childhood, Elementary
- Licensed Teacher

**Requirements**:

- Education Required: Bachelor
- Minimum Teaching Experience: 5 years of teaching experience
- Major: Visual Arts; Fine Arts
- Required Certificates:
- Teaching Credential/License**Qualifications**:

- Master’s degree in Education is highly preferred
- Proficiency in the Arabic language preferred but not required (willingness to take classes leading to proficiency)

Job Benefits:
We offer a competitive salary in line with international standards, a generous benefits package, and ongoing meaningful personal and professional development opportunities.

**Job Description**:
**Reporting to**: Head of Kindergarten and Elementary School Principal

**Job profile**

Seeking talented innovative progressive Primary School Visual Arts Teacher educator to develop an invigorating safe, supportive, and stimulating learning ecosystem in a state-of-the-art purpose-built facility. The ideal talented individual should be empowered to make the greatest positive impact on the community, embrace all learners within his or her learning environment, promote inquiry through questioning while employing the Socratic method, be principled, and be committed to the well-being of self and students.

**Description of position**

The International School of Kuwait (ISK) is seeking an inspirational Primary School Visual Arts Teacher who can develop the vision and mission while implementing a rich curriculum, which lies beyond the traditional scope of education.

The duties and responsibilities of an ISK Primary School Visual Arts Teacher, include the:

- Following the School’s philosophy of child development to promote the physical, social, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual growth of students
- Planning and executing a clearly defined environment that is arranged to promote independence, foster decision-making, and encourage initiative and involvement
- Creating dedicated learning centers for dramatic and imaginative play, block building, art, language, and mathematical thinking
- Creating a classroom that promotes and reflects inquiry into the world in which the students live
- Creating displays that document the students’ learning process and creativity
- Observing the students and documenting their progress to plan further learning and to evaluate and assess their development
- Engaging students in learning by using a variety of contemporary teaching strategies to meet individual learning needs
- Supporting and enhancing student learning through the use of digital integration and technology
- Having daily discussions with members of the teaching team along with scheduled weekly team meetings to coordinate work and strengthen collaboration
- Establishing an inspiring, respectful, positive, safe student-centered environment that is conducive to learning
- Developing and using a variety of formative and summative assessment strategies to guide teaching and learning, while catering to individual students’ needs
- Providing meaningful and constructive, honest, and regular feedback to students about their learning and progress
- Keeping parents informed of children’s progress by maintaining records of academic performance, attendance, and participation
- Reporting on all elements of student development at student-parent-teacher conferences
- Encouraging parent involvement by inviting the parents to the class and working closely with them on their child’s development
- Developing and presenting lesson plans by using a variety of teaching models (Pathways to Teaching) and techniques (Pathways to Learning)
- Maintaining good disciplinary order and child safety standards in the classroom, on the school’s campus, and while on bus and vigilance duties
- Maintaining a safe, secure, and healthy educational environment on campus and educational visits
- Updating professional knowledge by attending regular faculty meetings, participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining professional networks, and participating in professional organizations that result in enhancement of student learning
- Using the school’s student information system to keep and maintain records and facilitate communication
- Ensuring the classroom physical layout maximizes learning and collaboration while providing a safe and nurturing environment
- Facilitating learning through a range of strategies, in individual, small, and large group settings in a positive and differentiated learning climate
- Participating in the implementation and review of the curriculum
- Taking on ad hoc tasks as negotiated by the Head of the Kindergarten and the Elementary School Principal
- Maintaining a commitment to professional ethics, international-mindedness, and the school’s vision, mission, and core values
- Aligning student assessment with expected learning outcomes and the school’s Assessment Policy