Boarding House Academic Tutor

2 weeks ago

UAE, United Arab Emirates Swiss International Scientific School in Dubai Full time

**Job Scope**

The role of Boarding House Academic Tutor (Mathematics) is to ensure that boarding students are supported academically, and assist with the pastoral care of the students who are resident in the boarding houses. The Boarding House Academic Tutor (Mathematics) is required to make a major contribution to the academic development of students, with a specific focus on Mathematics. This will involve working closely with the Head of Boarding and Boarding Team to ensure that the students settle into boarding life and ensuring there are enrichment opportunities.

**Main Duties and Responsibilities**

This not an exhaustive list of all duties/responsibilities. The responsibilities outlined may be modified by the Head of Boarding, upon mutual agreement, to reflect or anticipate changes in the role:
**Academic**
- Support all boarding students completing home learning tasks during allocated study times.
- Prepare, and implement, MYP and DP mathematics support sessions for boarding students, providing focused mathematics support to boarding students in exam grade levels.
- Provide enrichment opportunities for boarding students identified as MAG&T, particularly for mathematics and quantitative skills.
- Support boarding students in fulfilling criterion for formative and summative assessments.
- Establish, and maintain effective learning environments in the boarding houses.
- Ensure the boarding learning environment, materials and equipment are safe, clean, attractive, challenging, anti-bias, and developmentally appropriate.
- Maintain constant awareness of the needs of any students to whom English is an additional language.
- Liaise with the mathematics department to support in curriculum organisation to meet the physical, social, intellectual, and emotional needs of each boarding student, and to provide the boarding students with a safe, stimulating and engaging learning experience.
- Support boarding students to build critical and creative thinking skills through inquiry, observation and experimentation.
- Liaise with the Secondary Mathematics Department when required.

**Pastoral Care**
- Monitor boarding student concerns
- Enforce the Boarding House Code of Conduct, and follow disciplinary actions when appropriate.
- Organize, and attend, social events for students that enhance boarding life.
- Support student voice, and student agency initiatives.
- Assist with facilitating CAS and Service Learning opportunities for students.
- Be available to the Head of Boarding, Deputy Head of Boarding and House Parents for updates, briefings, discussions regarding pupils and to attend House/Academic meetings as required.
- Undertake regular supervisory duties, as per roster drawn up by Head of Boarding.

A detailed job description can be found on the document attached.

**Position Requirements**

**Education**
- Professional teaching qualification
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics

**Experience and Competencies**
- A positive, flexible, ‘can do’ work ethic
- Ability to form positive relationships with students and encourage them with their sports/cultural activities, their academics, and their routines
- Be enthusiastic, patient, and empathetic when working with children and young people who come from a diverse range of cultures.
- Have confident and warm communication skills.
- Be practical and keep a cool head in an emergency
- Be tactful, discreet and a good listener
- Be firm but fair
- Ability to multitask and prioritise, planning own workload to fir around the needs of the students
- Have a hands-on approach to all aspects of running the boarding houses
- Willing to learn and use restorative principles in all interactions with students, staff and parents.
- Be a team player who demonstrates maturity and professionalism
- Have a commitment to ensuring high standards of care and support
- Strong collaboration skills to foster partnerships with children and young people and parents
- An ability to work with a range of people with the aim of ensuring the safety and welfare of children and young people
- Commitment to ensure the safety and welfare of children and young people
- Excellent standards of personal presentation.
- Enjoyment of working in a positive, collaborative team environment with the values of honesty, integrity, and mutual support at the core.
- An enthusiasm for engaging with diverse cultures tempered only with high levels of patience and adaptability
- Inter-culturally aware with well-developed interpersonal skills.

**Salary & Benefits**

Competitive remuneration and benefits

**Application**
- Current CV not to exceed two pages

Closing date: 30th April 2024

**About the School**

SISD is a leading international day and boarding school where future generations are inspired to become confident and enthusiastic lifelong learners, ready to embrace the opportunities and challenges of a global world. Recently ranked by Spears as one of the top 100 private schools in the world.

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