Arabic Immersion Learning Support Assistant

The Arbor School Dubai

Job Overview

The Arbor School seeks a caring, enthusiastic and culturally rooted Arabic Immersion Learning Support Assistant to join our growing Early Years and Primary team. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to our vision of bilingual, experiential, and eco-literate education by supporting Arabic language acquisition through immersive, play-based learning experiences.

Enough For All, Forever.

The Arbor School opened in 2018 with a very different vision of what education could and should be experiential, authentic and inspired by the natural beauty, human ingenuity, and profound ecological and social challenges of the Arabian Peninsula.

The cultivation of a learning community uniquely committed to understanding and restoring the health of ecological and human communities as interconnected parts of a whole requires equal parts optimism, ambition, and humility. A fundamental belief in the inherit goodness of people and their capacity to act with empathy and compassion underscores the sense of hope that is fundamental to learning for a sustainable future. The resilience and determination to tackle challenges that have grown to global proportion is essential to finding sustainable solutions and orchestrating the social changes needed to grow them to scale. The realisation that comes from recognising that we are all students never a master drives our commitment to ignite a lifelong love of learning.

Role

Recognising the interconnected nature of the cognitive, affective and participative domains, and their roles in shaping learning, we are pursuing a holistic approach to teaching and learning, designed to prepare learners:

• to understand the interconnected concepts of sustainability, individual and collective well-being, and environmental and social justice;
• to find purpose, meaning and joy in their interactions with the natural world and with each other, and to seek to understand people who are different to themselves; and
• to experience a sense of accomplishment and self-efficacy through their actions at home, in school and in the wider world.
  
  

Job Summary

The Arabic Immersion Learning Support Assistant (LSA) will support the effective delivery of the Arabic immersion programme in the Early Years and Primary phases. Working under the direction of the Arabic Immersion Teacher, the LSA will help facilitate a language-rich environment where Arabic is embedded meaningfully throughout the school day. This includes assisting with Arabic-led routines, supporting small group and individual interactions, and contributing to classroom displays, resources, and activities that promote Arabic language development.

The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong command of spoken Arabic, the ability to communicate effectively in English, and a genuine interest in early childhood education and bilingual learning.

THE ARBOR PROMISE

Arbor staff are a part of a community which is inclusive, fun-loving, and active. Arbor staff enjoy authentic friendships with their colleagues, positive relationships with school leaders, who care for their wellbeing, and are a team in the true sense. Arbor staff are resilient in the face of challenge, are stable and calm in the face of change, and creative and flexible when solving problems. Arbor staff bring their passions and interests to enrich our school and are clear that there is an expectation to do so. We commit to meeting agreed deadlines, to communicating proactively with an assumption of positive intent and share a passion to provide an education of the highest quality to our students.

Required Candidate Profile

• Native or fluent Arabic speaker with clear, confident spoken language.
• Good spoken English and ability to communicate with staff and children in both Arabic and English.
• Bachelor s degree in Arabic.
• CACHE Level 3 / Early Childhood Education qualification
• KHDA Notice of Appointment, if available
• Prior experience working in Early Years or Key Stage 1 settings (British curriculum preferred).
• Basic knowledge of the EYFS framework or British curriculum.
• Interest in eco-literacy, nature-based learning, or sustainability education.