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Key Responsibilities
Teaching
- Plan work in accordance with faculty schemes of learning and National Curriculum programmes of study.
- Liaise with relevant colleagues on the planning of schemes of learning for collaborative delivery.
- Work in collaboration with Teaching Assistants, SEND Team, EAL Team and others as appropriate.
- Take account of students’ prior levels of attainment and use them to set targets for future improvements.
- Set work for students absent from school for health or disciplinary reasons.
- Maintain good discipline by adherence to the advice given to staff in the staff handbook and elsewhere.
- Set high expectations for students’ behaviour by establishing a purposeful working atmosphere in accordance with the school's behaviour code.
- Set appropriate and demanding expectations for students learning, motivation and presentation of work.
Assessment, Recording and Reporting
- Maintain notes and plans of lessons undertaken and records of students’ work.
- Mark, monitor and return work within a reasonable and agreed time span providing constructive oral and written
- feedback and clear targets for future learning as appropriate.
- Carry out assessment programmes (e.g. reports) as agreed by the School, Department or Faculty.
- Complete student records of achievement in line with policy and as specified in the published calendar.
- Participate in Parent/Carer Evenings to keep parents informed as to the progress of their child.
- Be familiar with the Code of Practice for identification and assessment of Special Educational Needs and keep appropriate records on Learning Plans for students.
Pastoral Work
- Undertake responsibility for a tutor group as required including tutor/student interviews.
- Be the first point of contact for parents of students in the tutor group.
- Monitor (and set targets for) the social and academic progress of individuals in the tutor group.
- Take responsibility for of the PSHE programme to one or more tutor groups as appropriate.
- Promote good attendance and monitor in accordance with the school's attendance policy.
Professional Standards
- Support the aims of the School to promote an “Inclusive learning community".
- Treat all members of the community, colleagues and students, with respect and consideration.
- Treat all students fairly, consistently and without prejudice.
- Set a good example to students in terms of appropriate dress, standards of punctuality and attendance.
- Promote the aims of the school by attendance at and participation in events such as open evenings, options evenings and the like (as appropriate to responsibilities).
- Support the ethos of the School by upholding the Code of Conduct, uniform, PFL rules, etc.
- Take responsibility for own professional development and participate in staff CPL, training and development.
- Reflect on own practice as well as the practices of the School with the aim of continual professional development.
- Read and adhere to the various policies of the School as expressed in the School Development Plan, the staff handbook, subject team/year team documentation, etc.
- Participate in the development and management of the School by attending various team and staff meetings.
- Undertake all duties as prescribed within School policies.
- Ensure that all deadlines are met as published in the School calendar.
- Undertake professional duties that may be reasonably assigned to them by the Principal (e.g. cover, after school duties, etc.).
- Be proactive and take responsibility for matters relating to health and safety.
Attributes Considered Desirable at George Green’s School:
- A record of excellent attendance and punctuality.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including appropriate ICT skills.
- The ability to work, and contribute, effectively within departmental and Year-based teams.
- The ability to work actively and effectively with parents, governors and other stakeholders.
- Flexibility and a willingness to be involved in the life of George Green's School.
- The ability to use own initiative and motivate others.
- A commitment to teaching and lifelong learning, and a willingness to continue to further own learning through continuing professional development.
- Commitment to implement the School’s Equal Opportunities Policies.
- A developing range of successful teaching strategies.
- A secure knowledge of the importance of data as a means both to measure and to extend progress.
- A high level of organisational and planning skills.
- The ability to create a stimulating visual environment for the classroom.
- The ability to create a dynamic learning environment which values everyone equally.
- A commitment to the vision of George Green's School.
- An awareness of equal opportunities issues generally and specifically how they relate to this area of work.
- A willingness to be a life-long learner.
