Teacher of English & Media Studies (Maternity Cover)

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.