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MAG is advertising again. Teachers Mentors have now morphed into Teacher Development Specialist. There are advertisements for primary and arabic as well. I have worked for MAG for a year now, they have restructured and I have lost my job. I could have kept it if I accepted a 30% cut in pay. They are not paying us until the end of our contracts in July but to the 2nd July, an example of the lack of morality in this program.

There is a new person(yes, yet again) as director of the program. She is Arabic and makes some really strange decisions. People who have been kept have a masters but in business with some very dated school experience and they have kept their jobs while people with nearly 20 years experience and a masters of education 50% completed have lost theirs.
SL is still there and thinks 17 page lesson plans are just fine. There is a real lack of knowledge from the heads of curriculum and what should be going on in classrooms.
The new name for the position, TDS has also bought with it a drop in pay so if you accept a position you will be earning less than others.
They are taking Principal Advisors away from the program so curriculum staff will now be responsible for curbing the behaviour of Principals. Every year this program gets restructured, every year people lose their jobs! Whether it will even go ahead for next year is debatable.

Teacher Development Specialists (Female - Secondary)
Salary: attractive package Employer: Madares Al Ghad Location: United Arab Emirates Contract Type: Full time Contract Term: Permanent
Al Ghad Schools

We currently have the following position available to join the Madares Al Ghad - Schools of Tomorrow, an educational reform programme based in the UAE:

Teacher Development Specialists (Female - Secondary)

Bachelor's or Higher degree in Primary Education, Education,
ESL, Math background
Recognised teaching qualification
Minimum of 5 years full time teaching experience
Excellent communication skills - written and spoken
English fluency (equivalent to IELTS 7.5 Academic)
We are offering an attractive salary and benefits package. If you are interested in joining the programme, please submit your current CV with recent photograph plus copies of qualifications/transcripts together with the names of three referees to: