Female Early Years Foundation Stage Arabic Teacher

Job description

Job Description – Early Years Foundation Stage - Arabic Teacher Position: Early Years Arabic Teacher Location: Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Start Date: October 2026 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
• 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 preference:
• Saudi Femal
• Based in Jeddah
• Having a teaching license is required

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