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Teacher of English & Media Studies (Maternity Cover)
St Mark's West Essex Catholic School
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Posted Oct 5
About this role
GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES – To comply with the Teachers’ Standards, as set out CURRICULUM • Preparing, teaching and evaluating lessons throughout an agreed age and ability range in accordance with statutory requirements, school aims and objectives, and policies and Curriculum Area schemes of work. • Using a range of teaching and learning strategies and resources so that individual pupils have access to the curriculum. • Contributing to the teaching of cross-curricular themes, skills and dimensions. PUPILS • Being familiar with and supporting all school policies, especially those on behaviour, discipline, pupil welfare and Health and Safety. Communicating problems of a pastoral nature to the form tutor in the first instance. • Ensuring that pupils use equipment safely. • Displaying pupils’ work and maintaining a safe, tidy and stimulating work environment. • Liaising with the Learning Support Co-ordinator and the form tutor over pupils with Special Educational Needs and modifying teaching accordingly. • Ensuring that targets outlined in a pupil’s individual educational plan are pursued. • Liaising with and clarifying the role of any support teacher attached to the class. • Promoting the use of the library and other learning resources. • Keeping a record of pupil attendance at, and punctuality to, lessons and reporting any notable absence to the form tutor. • Ensuring that homework is set in line with school policy, recorded on Talaxy, and regularly marked and that record of marks are maintained. • Ensuring that the reward and behaviour systems are used. • Setting and maintaining high standards of pupil work in the classroom. ASSESSMENT • Assessing pupils’ work in accordance with statutory requirements and school policy. Maintaining a record of pupils’ attainments. Using Assessments to diagnose pupils’ individual strengths and weaknesses and planning subsequent teaching accordingly. • Writing reports on pupils and attending meetings with parents. • Setting and marking internal examinations. • Ensuring that external examination requirements are satisfied. • Recommending individual pupils for particular examination courses. SCHOOL DUTIES • Undertaking duties before school, at break, and after school on a rota basis. GENERAL • Undertaking reasonable care of the school’s resources and accounting for any resources used. • Attending meetings as directed and assisting in planning and evaluation. • Setting cover work when absent if it is at all possible. • Liaising with a reviewer and more senior staff over career and professional development. • Reporting anything that could endanger or threaten the health and safety of pupils or staff to the Head of Learning Area. FORM TUTOR • Offering care and support to pupils in all aspects of their school life and preparing them for adult life, developing a knowledge of each pupil as an individual, and enabling pupils to play an active role in all aspects of the school’s tutorial programme. • Completing attendance registers at the beginning of morning and afternoon school. • Recording and monitoring punctuality records and referring persistent lateness to the Head of Year. • Attending assemblies and accompanying tutor groups to assemblies to ensure they arrive in an orderly manner. • Guiding tutor groups to produce at least one assembly per year. • Referring any concerns to the Head of Year and subject staff. • Completing the tutor’s report in accordance with the guidelines on report writing. • Checking uniform and referring any problems to the Head of Year. • Preparing form representatives for council meetings and supervising the feedback of information from these meetings. • Keeping records of pupils’ progress, achievements and responsibilities. • Attending meetings of Form Tutors as directed. • Ensuring form notice boards are updated and ensuring that the form base is tidy at the end of all tutor periods and registrations. • Being available to discuss pupils’ concerns with them. • Referring all pertinent information to the Head of Year, particularly when required for reports or references. • Encouraging pupils to participate in extra-curricular activities and organising their participation in inter-form activities. • Acting as a first point of liaison with parents, in consultation with the Head of Year.