The King’s Academy Teaching Fellow Program is a two-year program with a one-year contract that will be renewed for a second year upon the teaching fellow’s successful completion of the first year. The program gives new teachers a rich opportunity for professional and personal growth in an immersive boarding school setting. Through this program, teaching fellows will learn about the teaching profession through individual mentorship and group training, while teaching their own courses and guiding students outside the classroom in the student life program.

Successful candidates, who will be supervised and mentored by the Dean of Faculty and senior faculty members, will typically have the following duties during their first year:

• Teach up to three credits per semester

• Participate in classroom observations with experienced teachers, and actively partner with them to lead and instruct in classroom settings through team teaching

• Closely collaborate with the assigned mentor teacher, participating in weekly meetings to discuss pedagogical strategies, review classroom performance, and receive targeted feedback for professional growth

• Participate in the Teaching Fellow Seminar, in which novice and experienced teachers meet to discuss issues, strategies, techniques, readings, and their own writing and reflections about teaching

• Serve as a co-advisor to a group of students

• Share main meals with the students no more than four times a week

• Commit to a full-year engagement in co-curricular activities, which includes directing or co-directing activities over the course of three terms. Co-curricular activities include coaching athletic teams, advising a student publication, leading an artistic activity or community service, etc. This schedule is subject to change as a decision by the dean of students during the academic year

• Attend programmatic school events (e.g. Parents Weekend, Orientation Week, Commencement) and proctor exams

• Serve on a weekend duty team

• Supervise students during evening study, in the houses, library or other areas of the school, twice each week

• Attend all professional faculty meetings, including department meetings and any other meetings called by the leadership

About King's Academy

King’s Academy, an independent, coeducational boarding and day school, will provide outstanding young men and women from Jordan, the Middle East and beyond an educational experience unlike any available in the region. Blending an American style of education rooted in the liberal arts and sciences with Middle Eastern history, traditions, language and cultural values, the Academy will feature close teacher-student interaction, the most current technological resources and a stimulating array of curricular and extracurricular activities designed to help students flourish intellectually and personally. Welcoming talented students from all backgrounds, religions and social classes, the Academy aims to foster empathy, tolerance and harmony. Through the active participation of students and teachers in a self-governing community, it will prepare students for future roles as leaders in government, business and civic life. The King’s Academy campus is unique in the Middle East. Designed by renowned Egyptian architect and Director of the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts in London Khaled Azzam, the campus and buildings are constructed on an extensive 575-dunum site (144 acres) and comprise s...ome 35 major buildings. These include state-of-the-art classrooms, laboratories and a 50,000-book library, a multi-faith spiritual center and garden, an observatory, dormitories incorporating faculty family apartments, and a magnificent auditorium that will serve not just the school but the nation as well.King’s Academy admits students of any race, color, creed or national origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the Academy and does not discriminate on the basis of these differences. We celebrate the differences in background, circumstances and educational experiences of our various students and value the diverse perspectives that each contributes to the school community.King’s Academy is in close philosophical affiliation with “The Eight Schools” in the United States, including Andover, Choate, Deerfield, Exeter, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, Northfield Mount Hermon and St. Paul’s.

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