Teaching Assistant
UAE, United Arab Emirates
Job Description
Key Responsibilities: Teaching & learning support
Reflect on practice and the development of own teaching and learning skills
Maintain a general awareness of developments in relevant subject areas
Seek ways of improving performance by reflecting on teaching design
Communication
Manage, with guidance, own teaching activities.
Teamwork
Required to be aware of the risks in the work environment
Expertise
- Deliver a high quality teaching and learning experience to the students
- Carry out teaching within a clear and established programme in a variety of settings from small groups to large classes
- Develop own teaching materials, with assistance and support as required.
- Set and mark assignments with assistance and support as required
- Transfer knowledge in the form of practical skills, methods and techniques
- Develop of examination questions appropriate to the learning outcomes
- Assess student progress and provide constructive feedback
- Continually update knowledge and develop skills to inform and support teaching integrating pedagogy or professional activities where appropriate
- Develop the skills of applying appropriate approaches to teaching
- Develop student's critical thinking and study skills
Reflect on practice and the development of own teaching and learning skills
Maintain a general awareness of developments in relevant subject areas
Seek ways of improving performance by reflecting on teaching design
Communication
- Deal with routine communication using standard media
- Communicate information and ideas to students
- Report results of assessments and student feedback to course co-ordinators and administrative officers
- Prepare handouts, VLE-based information and other basic learning support materials
- Liaise with colleagues and students
- Join appropriate internal networks
- Participate on school/Institute committees; for example, teaching groups
Manage, with guidance, own teaching activities.
Teamwork
- Actively participate as a member of a teaching team
- Attend and contribute to relevant meetings
- Show consideration to others
- Act as mentor to students as required
- Initiative, problem-solving and decision-making
- Deal with problems which may affect the delivery of teaching
- Contribute to decisions affecting the work of the team
- Plan own day-to-day activity within the framework of the agreed programme
- Co-ordinate own work with that of others to avoid conflict or duplication of effort
- Contribute to the planning of teaching programmes
- Sensory and physical demands may vary from relatively light to a high level depending on the discipline and the type of work carried out
- Balance with help the competing pressures of teaching and administrative demands and deadlines
Required to be aware of the risks in the work environment
Expertise
- Possess sufficient breadth or depth of specialist knowledge in the discipline and of teaching methods and techniques to work within own area
- Knowledge of appropriate teaching and assessment methods including, for example, developing teaching materials and setting and marking assignments with appropriate support
- Ability to organise own teaching workload, ensuring deadlines and standards are met, with general supervision from senior colleagues.
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Job Detail
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Job IdJD1429488
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IndustryNot mentioned
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Total Positions1
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Job Type:Full Time
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Salary:Not mentioned
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Employment StatusPermanent
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Job LocationUAE, United Arab Emirates
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EducationNot mentioned