Female Early Years Foundation Stage Arabic Teacher - Stellar

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

• Experience teaching early years and Arabic