Mathematics Teacher at Greensprings School

Job Description

• Delivering the curriculum to students effectively and in a caring manner
• Effective use of Assistant teachers where appropriate.
• Conducive Classroom environment.
• Other teachers within immediate departmental or year level team, both within the campus and across both campuses.

Main Duties
Communication:

• Maintaining professional standards in all discourse with students, colleagues, administrators, parents and other stakeholders, whether verbal or written.
• Ensuring own standards of written English are at a high level in all public documentation.
• Maintaining high standards of clarity in use of the spoken word.
• Recording and reporting incidents fully and clearly.
• Ensuring open days and other parental meetings are conducted in a spirit of mutual cooperation and support.
• Maintaining proper records of meetings with parents.
• Teaching and learning
• Ensuring teaching is fully delivered and implemented according to the curriculum.
• Setting homework according to the homework timetable.
• Ensuring homework tasks are meaningful, valid and relevant.
• Offering ideas for curricular and pedagogic development within the year level/department.
• Supporting year level and departmental curricular initiatives, and taking the lead where appropriate.
• Assessing student work fully in line with school and departmental policy and documentation, paying attention to developing the needs of the individual student.
• Recording assessment outcomes effectively to encourage individual progression.
• Utilizing existing data and information to support individual progression.
• Maintaining examples of work to use in parental meetings and as evidence of individual achievement.
• Maintaining and regularly updating attractive classroom displays which support or exemplify classroom practice.

Pastoral:

• Supporting and developing the emotional, spiritual and moral development of every child in a class/tutor group.
• Deliver pastoral lessons where required according to the programme and supporting its delivery by others where appropriate.
• Taking notice of any behaviour or attitude changes of any child that give cause for concern, and responding appropriately.

Person Specification

• B.Ed/B.Sc/HND in Mathematics or related course
• Minimum qualification of second class upper (second class lower with extensive experience can be considered)
• Working knowledge of Microsoft office suite