7 Science Education jobs in the United Arab Emirates

Overview

Job Title: Classroom Teacher
Department: Secondary
Reports to: Head of Faculty
Direct Reports: NA

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This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities.

• Teaching and learning responsibilities:
• Have excellent subject knowledge for their subject, having the subject knowledge to be able to stretch the most able learners at KS5.
• Have an in-depth knowledge of the examination requirements of the specifications that they teach in order to prepare students thoroughly for the specifics of the qualification.
• Be able to use all available contextual data to plan learning to meet the needs of all learners.
• Be a responsive teacher, adapting practice where necessary to assure that all students make progress.
• Provide appropriate challenge to all learners, including those identified as More Able and Talented, through teaching to the top and providing appropriate scaffolding and support where necessary.
• Support those with additional learning needs, for whom English is an additional language or English Language Learners by providing support and scaffolds where appropriate and drawing on the expertise of colleagues, whilst maintaining the highest of expectations of all.
• Undertake a range of formative and summative assessment strategies to know where students are in their learning and to plan future learning.
• Mark work, following the school marking policy, to ensure that students receive frequent feedback on their learning that moves them forward and enables them to make progress.
• Track and monitor the attainment and progress of individuals and groups of students, adapting provision where appropriate to ensure the highest attainment and progress for all.
• Effectively communicate with parents, through completing regular reports, attending parents’ evenings, and individual communications in order to ensure that parents are involved in their child’s learning at all times.
• Contribute to the creation, review and development of faculty resources, ensuring that any resources used are tailored to the specific needs of students in the class.
• Ensure students make progress within each lesson and across lessons.
• Create and nurture a warm, caring, but academically driven classroom environment.
• Maintain a positive and purposeful physical learning environment, including high quality classroom displays.

• Pastoral responsibilities:
• Be responsible for the holistic, emotional and social development of a tutor group of students.
• Monitor the attendance, punctuality and behaviour of students within the tutor group.
• Deliver PERMA lessons during tutor time, following the principles of Positive Psychology.
• Deliver Moral, Social and Cultural lessons during tutor time, in line with the MOE curriculum.
• Attend assemblies and contribute to the assembly programme as appropriate.
• Work closely with the Head of Year, taking direction from them and referring students who need further support to them.

• To promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people that you are responsible for, or come into contact with.
• Communicate effectively and appropriately with all stakeholders at all times.
• Behave appropriately at all times, inline with the EC standards and school values.
• Attend school events and take part in the wider life of the school.
• Offer an extracurricular club for at least two school terms that is of a high quality.
• Play a part in continually improving the school by aiding the relevant improvement plans and school improvement plan.
• Conduct break time/ lunch time duties as per a rota.
• Cover for absent colleagues, as and when appropriate.
• Take responsibility for one’s own professional development journey engaging in the school-wide professional development programme.
• Any other reasonable duties as assigned by the Principal/Senior leaders/Line managers.

• Have a good honours degree.
• Hold a QTS or PGCE teaching qualification, preferably from the UK.
• Have a minimum of two years’ experience of teaching.
• Be talented and highly motivated.
• Have experience teaching relevant UK curriculums.
• Be willing to contribute to the development of departmental resources.
• Contribute to whole school enrichment activities before or after school.
• Be able to provide an ICPC and a UK enhanced DBS or equivalent police check.
• Be professional in appearance and conduct.
• Be willing to contribute to the wider curriculum and support the vision of the school.

• Is honest, even when this is uncomfortable.
• Has integrity, even when this is difficult.
• Is transparent, consistent and fair.
• Can be flexible when the situation demands.
• Is reflective, always seeking to improve.
• Always assumes positive intent.
• Is incredibly hard working, even if it means going above and beyond.
• Is a team player and can share the load at peak times.
• Is a lifelong learner - engaged in their own professional development.
• Takes feedback well, always seeking this as helpful feedback to improve.
• Is a strategic thinker - is able to see the bigger picture.

• Pays attention to detail - has high standards.
• Has impact - can follow things through to an outcome.
• Is proactive at identifying issues before they arise and suggesting solutions.
• Can propose solutions - solves rather than narrates problems.
• Is thorough in all that they do.
• Has direct and indirect leadership skills.
• Is able to lead and inspire a tutor team.
• Is able to seek advice where appropriate.
• Has a sense of humour.

• Knowledge and understanding of the relevant English National Curriculum, principles of assessment and effective record-keeping and their use to promote the educational and personal development of the students.
• A strong understanding of pedagogy and teaching and learning methods.
• A strong understanding of child development and pastoral support.

• A commitment to the EC vision & values.
• A commitment to encouraging the professional development of yourself and all staff, including delegation of responsibility where appropriate and possible.
• Excellent, caring student-centred educator.
• Ability to influence people and to work with individuals and within teams.
• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team.
• Ability to react well under pressure.
• Excellent organisational skills.

Housing allowance paid to employees for self or furnished hotel apartment.

• Minimum Teaching Experience: 2 years of teaching experience
• Required Certificates: Teaching Credential/License
• Education Required: Bachelor
• Major: science

Additional School Requirements:

• Teaching Credential/License
• Valid teacher certification for the subject and level you are being hired to teach.
• Candidates holding valid and relevant New York State Teaching certifications are preferred.
• 2 years of recent professional work experience in the education field as Science in the US curriculum.
• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree and ideally a Masters.
• Candidates must have experience teaching in a US district school offering the Common Core State Standards (New York State experience preferred).
• Fluent English speaker.

Job Description:

Ignite School recruits motivated, dynamic, qualified, and experienced international faculty who are best able to engage our students in creative and innovative learning. The staff of Ignite School is supported by a peer-led professional learning community shaped by reflective practice and collaboration.

Ignite School shapes creative and innovative “21st-century citizens of the world” through a sustainability-focused, student-centered learning environment that celebrates diversity. We seek to instill exemplary character and life-long learning skills in our students through inclusive school life programs and extra-curricular activities that empower and challenge the realization of potential in each of our learners. Every Ignite School student feels welcome, accepted, safe, valued, and happy.

The American curriculum is rigorous, relevant, and service-oriented with a curriculum design that adheres to international best practices. Our inquiry-based learning model provides a platform for the development of creative processes that weave together sustainable development, science, mathematics, technology, analysis, logic, debate, and innovation. Our holistic approach to learning encourages the physical, social, intellectual, and emotional development of our students through real-world experiences as well as inside our high-quality learning facilities. With the aid of learning technology, students develop the 21st-century citizenship skills of critical thinking, complex problem solving, collaboration, cognitive flexibility, emotional intelligence, and creativity.

Interviews are conducted through Skype/Google Meets.

Ignite School offers a KG1 to Grade 12, American education experience leading to a High School Diploma for Emirati and expatriate students. The Ignite School curriculum aligns to the New York State Learning Standards, which includes the New York State P-12 Common Core Learning Standards (moving to NYS Next Generation Standards) as well as KHDA guidelines.

Ignite School commenced classes in September 2018 and now has more than 1400 students enrolled for KG1 to Grade 9. We anticipate opening Grades 10 and 11 in 2024/25 followed by Grade 12 in 2025/26 with a capacity for 2,000 Emirati and expatriate students. High School will offer Advanced Placement tracks. We have just achieved NEASC candidacy status and expect full accreditation in 2023/24.

When you join the Ignite School Community in Dubai, you will have the unique opportunity to shape school culture, develop and promote best teaching practices, and experience living in the UAE.

Our vision is for all young people to experience that learning has lasting value beyond their life at school. Our mission is to know the need of every student, collaboratively creating a student-centered, sustainable 21st-century learning environment that fosters leadership, social cohesion, creativity, responsibility, and ambition providing a catalyst for abilities of lasting relevance to emerging.

Learning at Ignite is a student-centered and engaging process of acquiring new knowledge and skills. This empowers our students to be responsible and respectful global citizens, preserving Emirati and global cultural values. Ignite students will be our future leaders and life-long learners who will be resilient, creative, inquisitive, and collaborative forces within their communities.

The “Core Values” that best express what we strive to impart to our students are Collaborative, Respectful, Responsible, Creative, and Leadership.

Drawing millions of visitors each year, Dubai allows teachers to experience a unique combination of traditional Middle Eastern ways of life and an upscale expatriate lifestyle. Dubai's many private schools provide opportunities for licensed teachers to teach in one of the most exciting and dynamic modern cities in the world.

MYP AND DP SCIENCE TEACHER - DUBAI - January 2026

For 2026/2027, the school will have several vacancies due to the school's ongoing growth and expansion of programs.

A prestigious school in Dubai is hiring for the next academic year.

Tax free monthly salary AED 11,792 - AED 13,548 plus extra for additional qualifications and IB experience.

Free furnished single occupancy apartment.

Annual flights, medical insurance and end of contract gratuity.

Benefits are available for dependants depending upon individual circumstances.

• Have a Bachelor Degree in Science or related and qualified teacher status.
• Have 2 years of experience.
• Have experience of the IB curriculum.
• Facilitate good teaching and learning.

Key Stage 3 Science Teacher – Earlier / January 2026 start

Fortes Education has been a leading education provider in the UAE for over four decades with premium international schools and nurseries that have experienced outstanding success and growth. Our schools offer the most innovative and character-building education in the entire Middle East region.

Our core ethos and philosophy of education is Positive Education (PosEd). Through PosEd, our schools foster active engagement in learning, celebrating character strengths and accomplishments. We encourage children to cultivate fulfilling relationships with others and seek meaning and purpose in their own lives. We enable children to become happy learners and develop into innovative thinkers, confident young adults, and life‑long learners. Our students develop resilience, a growth mindset and deep character strengths that allow them to flourish in an ever‑changing world.

About Regent International School – Inspiring Minds. Building Character.

With a rich history of over 35 years, Regent International School is recognised as one of the leading and most innovative schools in the region, as well as a global leader in Positive Education. We have a close‑knitted family and community spirit with happiness resonating in our school, our children, our parents, and our teachers. We believe in inspiring, empowering, and enlightening our students and enriching the community of which we are a central focus.

Regent International School is an all‑through school which offers a premium education across a fantastic range of pathways for students including the National Curriculum of England, GCSE/IGCSE and ‘A’ Levels. We also offer a suite of Signature Programmes unrivalled in Dubai. With unique experiences in Environmental and Sustainability Studies, students learn in Forest School settings, as well as utilising cutting‑edge hydroponic technology to examine how science can support sustainability in future terrains. Our world‑class STEAM centre and curriculum offers students an incredible opportunity to apply their learning in solving real‑world problems, from Foundation Stage through to Year 9. We run best‑in‑class mini‑MBA programmes for our students in conjunction with the Peter Jones Academy, to ensure our future success in business and entrepreneurship. We are technologically innovative and run comprehensive AI programmes for students in all core subjects, as well as deepening other subjects through Augmented and Virtual Reality AR/VR experiences. We have outstanding performing arts opportunities with fantastic amazing teachers to help our more creative students truly find their voice. Regent International School is judged by the Dubai School Inspection Bureau (DSIB) as a ‘Very Good’ school with many outstanding features and ‘Outstanding’ in our British Schools Overseas (BSO) inspection in 2019.

We present an exciting opportunity to join us in further developing our highly popular, dynamic and innovative school.

About you:

We seek to appoint an outstanding Key Stage 3 Science Teacher for an Earlier / January 2026 start.

• Skilled in the best global educational practices
• Committed to developing and inspiring every student, to believe that they can and will succeed
• Tech‑savvy, fluent in using APPs and technology to extend and enrich each student’s learning experience
• Outstanding role models who embody our core values
• Passionate about providing enriched learning opportunities for children in and out of the classroom
• Excellent communicators who can ignite a passion for learning in our students
• Able to make a significant contribution to our extra‑curricular activities (ECA) programme and wider campus life
• Strong academic background, work ethic, well‑organised having excellent interpersonal skills
• This opportunity will include teaching science at Key Stage 3
• Dynamic, enthusiastic, and well‑qualified holding as a minimum, a B.Ed. or a B.A & PGCE and QTS

Aspiring or current Middle Leaders are encouraged to apply for middle leadership roles. When applying please indicate your:

• Excellent tax‑free salary
• Relocation Allowance (applicable to overseas appointments only)
• Medical Insurance for self
• Annual Air‑Ticket and paid vacations
• Tuition Fee Concession for up to 2 minor dependent(s)
• State‑of‑the‑art facilities and amenities in a newly built campus in a prime location in Dubai
• An enthusiastic learning community of students, teachers, parents, and Board members, who are dedicated to maximise student achievement, and creating positive learning opportunities in and out of the classroom
• Working within a team of highly driven and supportive colleagues
• Working in Dubai, one of the world’s most sought‑after work and travel destinations

Application Process:

Candidates are invited to complete our Online Application by visiting:

Key Stage 3 Science Teacher – Earlier / January 2026 start

Fortes Education has been a leading education provider in the UAE for over four decades with premium international schools and nurseries that have experienced outstanding success and growth. Our schools offer the most innovative and character‑building education in the entire Middle East region.

Our core ethos and philosophy of education is Positive Education (PosEd). Through PosEd, our schools foster active engagement in learning, celebrating character strengths and accomplishments. We encourage children to cultivate fulfilling relationships with others and seek meaning and purpose in their own lives.We enable children to become happy learners and develop into innovative thinkers, confident young adults, and life‑long learners. Our students develop resilience, a growth mindset and deep character strengths that allow them to flourish in an ever‑changing world.

About Regent International School – Inspiring Minds. Building Character.

With a rich history of over 35 years, Regent International School is recognised as one of the leading and most innovative schools in the region, as well as a global leader in Positive Education. We have a close‑knit family and community spirit with happiness resonating in our school, our children, our parents, and our teachers. We believe in inspiring, empowering, and enlightening our students and enriching the community of which we are a central focus.

Regent International School is an all–through school which offers a premium education across a fantastic range of pathways for students including the National Curriculum of England, GCSE/IGCSE and ‘A’ Levels. We also offer a suite of Signature Programmes unrivalled in Dubai. With unique experiences in Environmental and Sustainability Studies, students learn in Forest School settings, as well as utilising cutting‑edge hydroponic technology to examine how science can support sustainability in future terrains. Our world‑class STEAM centre and curriculum offers students an incredible opportunity to apply their learning in solving real‑world problems, from Foundation Stage through to Year 9. We run best‑in‑class mini‑MBA programmes for our students in conjunction with the Peter Jones Academy, to ensure their future success in business and entrepreneurship. We are technologically innovative and run comprehensive AI programmes for students in all core subjects, as well as deepening other subjects through Augmented and Virtual Reality AR/VR experiences. We have outstanding performing arts opportunities with fantastic amazing teachers to help our more creative students truly find their voice. Regent International School is judged by the Dubai School Inspection Bureau (DSIB) as a ‘Very Good’ school with many outstanding features and ‘Outstanding’ in our British Schools Overseas (BSO) inspection in 2019.

We present an exciting opportunity to join us in further developing our highly popular, dynamic and innovative school.

About you:

We seek to appoint an outstanding Key Stage 3 Science Teacher for an Earlier / January 2026 start.

• Skilled in the best global educational practices
• Committed to developing and inspiring every student, to believe that they can and will succeed
• Tech‑savvy, fluent in using APPs and technology to extend and enrich each student’s learning experience
• Outstanding role models who embody our core values
• Passionate about providing enriched learning opportunities for children in and out of the classroom.
• Excellent communicators who can ignite a passion for learning in our students.
• Able to make a significant contribution to our extra‑curricular activities (ECA) programme and wider campus life
• Strong academic background, work ethic, well‑organised having excellent interpersonal skills
• This opportunity will include teaching science at Key Stage 3.
• Dynamic, enthusiastic, and well‑qualified holding as a minimum, a B.Ed. or a B.A & PGCE and QTS.

Aspiring or current Middle Leaders are encouraged to apply for middle leadership roles. When applying please indicate your:

Our Offer:

• Excellent tax‑free salary
• Relocation Allowance (applicable to overseas appointments only)
• Medical Insurance for self
• Annual Air‑Ticket and paid vacations
• Tuition Fee Concession for up to 2 minor dependent(s)
• State‑of‑the‑art facilities and amenities in a newly built campus in a prime location in Dubai
• An enthusiastic learning community of students, teachers, parents, and Board members, who are dedicated to maximise student achievement, and creating positive learning opportunities in and out of the classroom.
• Working within a team of highly driven and supportive colleagues
• Working in Dubai, one of the world’s most sought‑after work and travel destinations.

Application Process:

Candidates are invited to complete our Online Application by visiting:

About Us
Prime Focus Educational Services is seeking qualified and enthusiastic Computer Science and IT Teachers for part-time positions. In this role, you will provide personalized lessons, both online and in-person at students’ locations, to help them excel in their studies and enhance their technical skills.

Requirements:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field
• Minimum of 2 years of teaching experience in Computer Science and IT subjects
• Strong knowledge of programming languages, software development, and IT fundamentals
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Valid UAE visa
• Ability to teach in-person (at students’ homes) or online based on student preferences
• UAE Driver’s License is a plus
• Passion for teaching and helping students develop technical problem-solving skills

Job Type: Part-time
Locations: Dubai and Abu Dhabi
Languages: Proficiency in English (both written and oral) is essential. Fluency in other languages is a plus.

Key Responsibilities:
• Create and deliver engaging lessons tailored to individual student needs
• Teach various subjects related to Computer Science, IT, and Programming (e.g., Java, C++, Web Development, Software Engineering)
• Ensure that lessons are accessible and understandable to students of varying skill levels
• Track student progress, providing feedback, and offering academic guidance
• Maintain open communication with parents to keep them informed of their child’s progress
• Foster a safe, supportive, and motivating learning environment
• Prepare students for exams, assignments, and practical tasks as needed
If you are passionate about Computer Science and IT, and are eager to support students in mastering these essential skills, we would love to hear from you!

Job Category: Information Technology Teacher

Job Type: Part Time

Job Location: Abu Dhabi Dubai

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