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  • Job start date

    2 September 2019

  • Closing date

    29 March 2019 at 12am (midnight)

  • Date listed

    18 March 2019

Job details

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full-time equivalent salary

Main pay range 1 to Upper pay range 3, £19,335,.00 to £32,155,.00 per year pro rata

MFL Teacher (fractional 0.8) job summary

TEACHER OF MFL

Reports to: Subject Leader of MFL

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• to actively promote the Catholic Mission of the school
• to ensure the maintenance and delivery of the school ethos through the departmental team
• to plan, deliver and assess high quality teaching with clear objectives which encourages pupils to participate to their optimum level
• to carry out the tasks of a form tutor
• to promote good relationships with parents
• to promote and maintain high standards of pupil behaviour within the department
• to ensure implementation of the school’s Health and Safety policy
• to give active support to the school’s extra-curricular programme
• to manage high standards of display and care of furniture and fittings in the learning environment of the MFL department and your teaching rooms.
• to carry out such other tasks as the Headteacher may reasonably require

Key knowledge & understanding

• The School Mission Statement
• All teaching staff must understand and uphold the professional code of the General Teaching Council for England by demonstration of all the professional standards for QTS.
• A secure knowledge and understanding of specialist subject(s) to degree level, sufficient to cope securely with subject-related questions which students raise and to know about students’ common misconceptions and mistakes.
• A detailed knowledge of the relevant aspects of the National Curriculum and other statutory requirements and the demands expected of students in relation to KS4 and a knowledge of relevant post-16 courses.
• An understanding of subject progression KS2 to KS5.

Key functions

1. Planning

• Identify clear teaching objectives, content, lesson structures and sequences appropriate to the subject matter and the students being taught.
• Select and make good use of textbooks, ICT and other learning resources to enable teaching objectives to be met.
• Set appropriate and demanding expectations for students’ learning and motivation. Set clear targets for students’ learning, building on prior attainment.
• Identify students who have special educational needs, and know where to get help in order to give positive and targeted support.
• Take account of the needs of all pupils in each class, including the most and least able.
• Provide opportunities to develop students’ understanding by relating their learning to real and work-related examples.
• Maintaining adequate records on the delivery of the curriculum and on pupil progress in line with school and departmental policy.

1 Teaching & managing student learning

• Use teaching methods with whole classes, groups and individuals that ensure that students are engaged and stimulated, that teaching objectives are met, that momentum and challenge are maintained, and best use made of teaching time.
• Set high expectations for students’ behaviour, establishing and maintaining a good standard of discipline through well-focused teaching and through positive and productive relationships.

2 Assessment & reporting
• Assess how well learning objectives have been achieved and use this assessment to inform future teaching.
• Mark and monitor students’ class work and homework, providing constructive oral and written feedback and setting targets for students’ progress.
• Work to secure progress towards targets.
• Prepare and present informative reports to parents.
• Provide accurate data for the school’s tracking system.

4 Guidance & welfare
Act as a form tutor, fulfilling the following functions.
• Take responsibility for monitoring pupils’ academic and wider progress and development, acting in line with school policies in this area.
• Carry out the tutor group registration, following up any absences as directed by school policy.
• Review progress and support students in target setting and action planning.
• Ensure that all pupils are valued and treated according to the aims of the school’s Mission Statement.
• Lead daily collective worship, in line with school policy.

5 Wider professional effectiveness

• Take responsibility for own professional development, keeping up to date with research and developments in pedagogy and in teaching subjects.
• Understand professional responsibilities in relation to school policies and practices.
• Set a good example to students in personal presentation and conduct.
• Evaluate own teaching critically, using this to improve effectiveness.
• Work effectively with other school colleagues, attending meetings and liaising with representatives of other agencies as necessary.
• Organise display of work in own classroom and department areas.

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 Our Lady's Catholic College

School type
Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
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School size
1031 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18

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