Early Years Foundation Stage Arabic Teacher

Position overview

International Schools seeks a qualified Early Years Arabic teacher with expertise in running play-based classrooms in Arabic and developing young students’ language and literacy. The successful candidate will also provide targeted Arabic phonics and early literacy intervention for individual students.

Requirements

• Qualifications: Relevant bachelor’s degree and recognised Early Years teaching qualification.
• Teaching experience: Proven experience teaching Arabic in Early Years, particularly language and literacy development.
• Language proficiency: Excellent spoken and written Arabic, with intermediate English proficiency.
• Classroom management: Ability to deliver engaging, play-based learning and maintain a positive classroom environment.
• Child development: Strong understanding of early childhood development and age-appropriate teaching practices.
• Arabic literacy: Expertise in Arabic phonics, vocabulary, early reading and writing.
• Individual support: Ability to assess learning needs and provide targeted literacy interventions.
• Assessment & inclusion: Experience supporting diverse learning abilities and language backgrounds.
• Professional skills: Strong communication, collaboration, parent engagement and safeguarding awareness.
• Safeguarding: Understand safeguarding responsibilities, professional boundaries and confidentiality, and report concerns promptly through school procedures.

Desirable requirements

• Experience in an international or bilingual Early Years setting.
• Familiarity with Cambridge Early Years framework.
• Further training in early childhood education, Arabic phonics, literacy intervention or additional-language teaching.
• Experience developing Arabic learning resources and supporting transition into primary.

Additional information

Candidates should demonstrate their expertise through a play-based Arabic teaching activity, a short individual literacy intervention plan, and discussion of how they assess and respond to students’ progress.

Key preferences

• Saudi female
• Based in Jeddah
• Having a teaching license is required
• Experience teaching Early Years and Arabic