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A prestigious university in the UAE seeks a Teaching Assistant for its Summer Academy program. Responsibilities include assisting with Critical Thinking and Writing as well as IELTS courses, supporting students, and participating in program activities. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in English or related field and demonstrate a passion for education. This role is crucial in fostering students' academic and cultural skills necessary for success in higher education.
The NYU Abu Dhabi Summer Academy is an 18month university preparation program designed to enhance the academic profiles of highly motivated Emirati high school students. The program features intensive instruction in Leadership and Public Speaking Critical Thinking and Writing Mathematical Reasoning for the Sciences College Readiness and Success and IELTS Preparation over the course of two summers and an intervening academic year.
Following a competitive admissions process up to 90 program participants are selected each year as recipients of the Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Scholarships for Outstanding High School Students which enables them to attend the Summer Academy.
In this mixedgender program students are exposed to a rich cultural and rigorous academic program which enhances their ability to gain admission to and perform well at toptier Englishlanguage universities. The program begins during the summer following the 10th year of high school and continues for the following 18 months with two intensive summer sessions of study in Abu Dhabi at the NYUAD addition students participate in online study and academic refresher weekends during the following academic year.
Students gain the academic cultural and social skills necessary for success at toptier universities. Summer Academy graduates have attended Yale NYU New York NYU Abu Dhabi Princeton United Arab Emirates University The London School of Economics George Washington University Kings College London The University of Pennsylvanias Wharton School and many others.
We introduce students to accelerated study of mathematics critical thinking and writing the humanities and to the value of a liberal arts education.
Students develop their understanding of the social and cultural norms of universities and build useful intercultural competencies for success in university.
We prepare students to excel on the standardized tests necessary for university entry.
With Leadership and Public Speaking as a required course in the Summer Academy our program spurs confidence personal growth maturity and leadership skills.
We bring together top students from across the UAE who form a supportive and challenging social network among themselves and with Summer Academy alumni who have gone on to university study graduate school professions and leadership careers.
The Teaching Assistant will support course delivery for the Critical Thinking and Writing (CTW) and IELTS courses for up to two sections of Summer Academy students students in their first summer of the program and students in their second summer of the program (Summer I and Summer II). The Teaching Assistant will also support programmatic activities throughout the length of the appointment (including weekends) and participate in selection activities and graduation events as needed.
Abu Dhabi is the first comprehensive liberal arts and research campus in the Middle East to be operated abroad by a major American research university. Times Higher Education ranks NYU among the top 30 universities in the world making NYU Abu Dhabi the highestranked university in the UAE and MENA region. NYU Abu Dhabi has integrated a highly selective undergraduate curriculum across the disciplines with a world center for advanced research and scholarship. The university enables its students in the sciences engineering social sciences humanities and arts to succeed in an increasingly interdependent world and advance cooperation and progress on humanitys shared challenges. NYU Abu Dhabis highachieving students have come from over 120 countries and speak over 100 languages. Together NYUs campuses in New York Abu Dhabi and Shanghai form the backbone of a unique global university giving faculty and students opportunities to experience varied learning environments and immersion in other cultures at one or more of the numerous studyabroad sites NYU maintains on six continents.
NYUAD is committed to building and strengthening a universitywide culture of inclusion diversity belonging and equity (IDBE) which is fundamental to the Universitys commitment to excellence. Visitour website for more information on NYUADs commitment to IDBEand how these values are fundamental to our mission.
Students are drawn from among the worlds best. They are bright intellectually passionate and committed to building a campus environment anchored in mutual respect understanding and care. The NYUAD undergraduate student body has garnered an impressive record of scholarships graduateschool admissions and other global honors. Graduate education is an area of growth for the University; the current graduate student population of over 100 students is expected to expand in the next decade as doctoral programs are developed.
Qualifications must support the essential functions and serve as the primary criteria for selecting candidates.
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