EAL Teaching Assistant
Fortis Academy, Birmingham, West Midlands, B44 8NU3 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
10 May 2024 at 9am
Date listed
26 April 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time: Term Time Only
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade 4 SCP 13 - 16 £23,115 - £23,893 FTE - Pay Award Pending
Pay scale
- Actual Salary:£20,664 - £21,360 - Pay Award Pending
What skills and experience we're looking for
Fortis Academy is a vibrant and inclusive school committed to providing quality education to students from diverse backgrounds. We prioritize academic excellence, cultural diversity, and fostering an environment where every student feels valued and supported. As part of our commitment to meeting the needs of our English Additional Language Students (EAL), we are seeking a dedicated and empathetic English Additional Language Teaching Assistant (EAL TA) to join our team.
As an EAL Teaching Assistant, you will play a vital role in supporting the academic and linguistic development of our EAL students across all year groups.
Your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- Assisting EAL students in developing English language proficiency through one-on-one or small group instruction, focusing on speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills.
- Collaborating with classroom teachers to modify and adapt instructional materials and activities to meet the diverse learning needs of EAL students.
- Providing additional support during mainstream classroom activities to facilitate comprehension and participation for EAL students.
- Administering language proficiency assessments and monitoring students' progress over time.
- Building positive relationships with EAL students and their families to foster a supportive learning environment and promote parental involvement in their child's education.
- Assisting with the cultural integration of EAL students and promoting cross-cultural understanding and respect among the school community.
- Participating in professional development opportunities to enhance your knowledge of EAL teaching strategies, cultural competency, and best practices for supporting EAL students.
What the school offers its staff
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Fortis Academy is a very large 11-18 academy serving a local area of high-density housing in Birmingham’s outer suburbs. The Academy is the largest employer in the ward, with over 200 employees. It is part of the North Area Network of schools, one of six network regions in the city. The setting is uniquely split into a Foundation Academy and Senior Academy.
Fortis Academy’s vision is Enriching Lives. This is underpinned by the values of Character, Resilience and Aspiration. Our curriculum centres around three key areas; a rich and ambitious knowledge-based academic curriculum, a continuous attention to physical and mental well-being, with increasing use of 21st century technologies to support improved outcomes. We believe this combination will help our students lead confident, healthy, and fulfilled lives as adults and ready for the world of work.
Shaw Education Trust offer the following benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Access to health and wellbeing support via Occupational Health
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
Shaw Education Trust are a thriving mix of diverse and growing schools including Primary, Secondary and Special Schools all working together to improve the lives of young people in our communities. We are sponsored by Shaw Trust a charity organisation that focuses on transforming lives. Our schools span from Birmingham to Bury, meaning that we can support students from all walks of life, no matter their background or socioeconomic status. In doing this, we can help ensure all children are able to access a high standard of education, with all being treated equally.
- row, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
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About Fortis Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1434 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Fortis Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- natalie.turner@shaw-education.org.uk
Great Barr Academy is sponsored by Shaw Education Trust. We are based in north Birmingham and have a large, diverse and vibrant community of students. We have a well-established and very successful Sixth Form.
We pride ourselves on our strong ethos which values inclusion, good citizenship, mutual respect and collaboration. We aim to provide a wide range of stimulating opportunities to expand our students’ horizons within an environment in which they feel safe and well cared for and in which they can achieve their best, develop self-confidence and flourish as individuals. We encourage the active participation of parents/carers in their children’s education; only when the school, the child and parents/carers are working together will children excel.
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