Rayda Saleh

Arabic teacher and department head with 18 years of experience seeking opportunities where I can apply this experience, technology, to support students’ growth as well as spread this beautiful language and culture.

I have been teaching Arabic as a foreign language for 18 years. Currently, I am the Arabic language department head for middle and high school at Brighter Horizons Academy, Dallas, Texas. I graduated with bachelors in Arabic language and literature in 2001. Throughout my career, I worked with all ages and levels of Arabic learners. To refine myself as an educator, I have been taking endless educational courses, certificates, and training, starting from classroom management, to ACTFL, LOTE, ECRIF and IB programs. It has been a successful journey full of accomplishments and joy. On a personal level, I love reading, writing, music, and I love learning new methods especially in education. And most of all, I love challenges. Finally, My goal is to finish my masters, design a curriculum that serves non-native speakers, and make learning Arabic easy and purposeful.

• STARTALK Language Teacher Training, Department of Modern Languages at the University of Texas at Arlington, 2024, 2025
• STARTALK innovation of lesson plans, Maryland University, 2023, 2024
• Employing Artificial Intelligence in Building Interactive Questions, 10/14/24
• Diploma of Specialization in Teaching Arabic to Children & People with Learning disabilities, 02/01/24
• Teaching Arabic for speakers of Other Languages American Fellowship, 03/01/21
• Diploma in Teaching Arabic Language Based on the IB System, 01/01/21
• Effective Educators Seminar by Harry Wang, 6
• Annual ACTFL convention and workshops/ACTFL member Annual LOTE workshops and training
• Annual WCIEF ISNA
• Classroom management workshops
• World Language Teaching Techniques and Methods, 30, 2019
• The Anywhere School by Google, 2020
• NFLC Virtual summit, 2020
• E-Learning between the challenges of the present and the aspiration of the future, 2020
• Zoom Academy Certificate, 2020
• Writing rubrics in the MYP
• MYP: Unit Planning & the new Standards and practices MYP Category 2 Language acquisition
• Developing the MYP curriculum
• Diploma in teaching Arabic in the IB program
• How to transfer from being staff to a leader