Trewirgie Junior School
Job Description –Class Teacher
Requirements of the Post
General:
The post holder is responsible for ensuring that all school policies are adhered to and concerns are raised in accordance with these policies.
Be familiar with, and uphold the ethos of the school, expectations of behaviour and approaches to behaviour management.
Respect the confidentiality of all school matters.
Core requirements:
Professional element
- To be committed to the school’s vision and core values and to reflect this through personal practice.
- To be an effective practitioner with an understanding of good teaching and how children learn best.
- To hold the highest expectations of what children can achieve and to motivate them to achieve ‘my best always.’
- To create a learning environment that immerseschildren in their learning, in line with the school’s key policies and practice.
- To be reflective, self appraising and continually seek to improve personal and school effectiveness.
- To promote a caring school ethos, fostering respect and positive relationships between all children and with all adults.
- To develop sensitive and professional relationships with parents, colleagues, governors and other members of the school community.
- To maintain appropriate individual children’s records and provide detailed information about teaching and learning outcomes for the year group team, Leadership Team and Headteacher as required.
- To work in accordance with the Teacher’s Pay and Conditions of employment and to work consistently within the policies and guidelines agreed by the school.
To maintain the Professional Standards for Teachers.
Team element
- To contribute to, and work collaboratively within, teaching and whole staff teams.
- To monitor and evaluate teaching and learning with colleagues, developing and implementing changes where necessary.
- To participate in regular meetings which relate to teaching and learning, administration or organisation of the school, including pastoral arrangements.
- To organise effective ways of managing learning support staff, including sharing short term planning, and to support and contribute to their professional development.
- To make an active contribution to the extra-curricular life of the school.
Curriculum element
- To develop a secure knowledge and understanding of teaching and assessment methods.
- To plan excitingproject based learning, that is experiential and purposeful.
- To develop children’s subject and learning to learn skills within a broad and balanced curriculum.
- To develop innovative ways of using ICT across the curriculum.
- To support the planning and organisation of events, displays, exhibitions and assemblies of the highest quality that inspire and promote excellent learning.
- To develop children’s responsibility for their learning and their ability to think, evaluate and reflect on their learning and learning needs.
- To develop children’s enthusiasm for learning through high quality first hand learning experiences.
- To develop children’s independence as learners and to plan and prepare lessons which involve children in thinking, problem solving and active learning.
- To hold high expectations of all children’s behaviour and to teach and manage behaviour effectively.
Trewirgie Junior School
Person Specification – Teacher
Teachers form a significant and important part of our staff team. It is essential that they consistently uphold the school’s core values and vision, follow school policies and promote the school’s powerful ethos. They must be suitable to work with children in a school environment.
At Trewirgie Junior School our teachersare:
- Discreet, trustworthy and uphold confidentiality at all times
- Able to recognise and manage their own feelings professionally
- Exciting practitioners who plan high quality learning experiences for children
- Passionate about ensuring that learning is real, purposeful and engaging for all children
- Confident in their written and oral communication skills
- Capable of working on their own initiative and prioritise workload
- Tolerant and respectful of diverse cultures and faiths
Within a team they:
- Are flexible, adaptable and actively seek to ensure things run smoothly
- Are committed to building a happy, purposeful and productive school community
- Form positive and supportive relationships
- Have a positive and cheerful attitude
- Contribute to finding solutions to problems as they occur
- Contribute to teams, giving and seeking support
- Understand the pressures on their colleagues
With the children they:
- Love children’s diversity and uniqueness
- Are passionate about children achieving ‘my best always’
- Are committed to improving chances for all children whatever their learning ability, physical needor emotional disposition
- Excite and motivate them through planning and delivering high quality learning experiences, in line with the school’s curriculum vision
- Hold high expectations of the children’s behaviour and reinforce and praise appropriately
In learning they:
- Have an excellent standard of literacy and numeracy
- Are competent in using ICT or are keen to learn
- Are willing to research what they don’t yet know
- Are keen to learn and develop themselves as professionals