Sarah Hunter Email & Phone Number

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Head of the English curriculum team; creating, implementing and monitoring a broad English curriculum based on the International Baccalaureate and amalgamated with the UK Curriculum for English.
• Working alongside the Deputy Head teacher to create assessment rubrics to effectively level, monitor and boost student progress and attainment.
• Adapting our English curriculum to meet UK standards of assessment.
• Raising student progress and attainment from Acceptable to Very Good.
• Introducing and monitoring Systematic Synthetic Phonics teaching for EY-Y3, in a school with 76% EAL students.
• Training and mentoring new and established teachers in the teaching of Reading and Phonics, using Read Write Inc. and Letters and Sounds

London, United Kingdom

• Working with students and parents from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds.
• Planning, preparing and delivering lessons that facilitate active learning, through a creative curriculum approach.
• Developing theme-based schemes of work and lesson plans in line with the UK curriculum.
• Using school-based social media (SeeSaw and Class Dojo) to communicate necessary information and achievements, regularly, to students and parents.
• Using relevant technology to support and differentiate instruction.
• Effectively managing student behaviour, throughout the school, using a positive approach.

London, United Kingdom

• Assisting the class teacher to deliver differentiated learning for students with SEN.
• Supporting students with ASD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette’s syndrome.
• Helping to integrate students with SEN in a mainstream classroom setting.
• Dealing with any disruption and reporting any difficulties that I was unable to overcome.

London, United Kingdom

• Assisting the class teacher to implement the UK National Curriculum in a specialised ASD provision.
• Supporting students with SEN, specifically Sensory Processing Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
• Helping to integrate students with SEN in a mainstream classroom setting.
• Supporting the class teacher to implement of strategies to manage behaviour.
• Reporting progress towards targets for students with Individual Education Plans.
• Liaising with specialist therapists (Occupational, Music and Art) to support students’ development.