The principal of monolingual, Arabic school in Muscat. The school has around 200 students and about 35 employees.Have worked to translate examples of best practice from the UK and implement these here including a fully levelled Arabic reading and writing programme.

• Principal of a private school with classes ranging from Nursery to Year 10, with over 600 pupils and a bilingual curriculum• Responsible for all aspects of school development including coordinating the entire school timetable• Introduced Ofsted framework to monitor teaching quality and created tracking systems to monitor student progress• Implemented National Curriculum 2014, including the introduction of assessment beyond levels• Developed innovative approaches through… Show more • Principal of a private school with classes ranging from Nursery to Year 10, with over 600 pupils and a bilingual curriculum• Responsible for all aspects of school development including coordinating the entire school timetable• Introduced Ofsted framework to monitor teaching quality and created tracking systems to monitor student progress• Implemented National Curriculum 2014, including the introduction of assessment beyond levels• Developed innovative approaches through timetable expertise to deliver recently introduced phonics curriculum (NC2014)• Carried out training sessions, including for other Principals and Deputies on the Ofsted framework (2012) for inspecting lessons, in addition to implementation of ClassDojo across the schools and data analysisKey Achievements• Reduced inadequate teaching levels from 70% to less than 10% through intensive training and support of teachers• Used Survey Monkey to improve performance management and introduce a more personalised training programme• Implemented Weebly system to improve recruitment procedures throughout the organisation• Set up systems of monitoring through Google Forms that automatically form a database of drop-ins Show less

• Director of Education for 6 private schools based on the American Curriculum and the National Curriculum of England• Responsible for the academic, financial and pastoral elements of the school as well as supporting new projects countrywide• Set up accounting systems to aid cohesion between human resources, finance and the school leadership team• Developed policies for all areas of management and implemented systems to ensure staff were accountable for their work

• Combined Supreme Education Council (SEC Qatar) curriculum with National Curriculum of England assessment procedures• Held sessions on National Curriculum of England for parents and teachers• Translated National Curriculum of England levels into Arabic and implemented across Arabic, Islamic Studies & Qatar History• Set up Behaviour and Cover modules in SIMS to allow the tracking of behaviour issues and ensure there are clear systems in place to cover teachers when… Show more • Combined Supreme Education Council (SEC Qatar) curriculum with National Curriculum of England assessment procedures• Held sessions on National Curriculum of England for parents and teachers• Translated National Curriculum of England levels into Arabic and implemented across Arabic, Islamic Studies & Qatar History• Set up Behaviour and Cover modules in SIMS to allow the tracking of behaviour issues and ensure there are clear systems in place to cover teachers when absent• Worked with two other Academies in Doha to set up their IGCSE curriculumKey Achievements• Implemented the award-winning “Show My Homework” software into the secondary school, incorporating an e-learning approach to homework that allowed teachers to be more creative with homework tasks and made them more accountable• Reduced inadequate teaching from 43% to less than 1% through intensive training and support of teachers• Used data from teacher assessments, CATS and reading ages to set up a clear Year 11 intervention strategy, resulting in the pass rate in IGCSE English and Mathematics doubling in one year, and students achieving or exceeding their target grades in English, Mathematics and Arabic• Extended AS curriculum in Year 12 to include AS Applied subjects, increasing sixth form capacity by 50% and leading to a huge influx of students from areas around Doha who would not have ordinarily joined the school• Launched Positive Behaviour model which significantly improved reporting of rewards and decreased reporting of negatives Show less

• Roles included Pastoral Manager for Year 11 and Head of Religious Studies• Planned and provided PSHE resources to members of the year 11 tutor team• Worked with KS4 Intervention and Achievement leader on workshop for Year 11 parents on “The Learning Environment”• Mentored pupils to ensure they met set targets, and organised after school, holiday and Saturday revision• Worked in partnership with University of East London to train trainee teachers to use learning… Show more • Roles included Pastoral Manager for Year 11 and Head of Religious Studies• Planned and provided PSHE resources to members of the year 11 tutor team• Worked with KS4 Intervention and Achievement leader on workshop for Year 11 parents on “The Learning Environment”• Mentored pupils to ensure they met set targets, and organised after school, holiday and Saturday revision• Worked in partnership with University of East London to train trainee teachers to use learning technologies• Collaborated with Specialists Schools and Academies Trust to provide support with Religious Education resources for an academy in South London• Worked with Edison Learning to incorporate Religious Studies resources into an integrated curriculum model• Set up revision website nightingalerevision.wikispaces.com and trained other Heads of Departments to add resources to it• Set up website religiousstudies.wikispaces.com for students to access resources, assessment results and other informationKey Achievements• Achieved results in Religious Studies that were above the National Average in 2009, 2010 and 2011• Received praise from Ofsted (2012) for the efficiency and approach of the Humanities faculty• Praised by RE Advisor in Enfield Local Authority for “leadership, passion and hard work” Show less