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Teacher - Design & Technology (Food Specialist)

The Birley Academy, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S12 3BP

This job expired on 4 March 2024 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  September 2024 or sooner

• Closing date

  4 March 2024 at 9am

• Date listed

  26 February 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Subjects: Design and technology, Food technology
• Working pattern: Full time: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: MPS or UPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

Job purpose:

• To exemplify excellent classroom practice that results in high standards of learning and achievement for the pupils/students in your care.
• To support the Senior Leadership Team in establishing a culture that promotes excellence, equality and high expectations of all pupils/students and the L.E.A.D. Trust values.
• To ensure that your professional practice is informed by rigorous self-evaluation and that it continuously improves learning and pastoral outcomes.
• To ensure that you provide a safe and happy environment that promotes the welfare of children.
• To ensure all safeguarding and child protection policies are adhered to fully and without reservation in line with statutory duties.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Teaching and learning

• Set high expectations for all pupils/students which inspire, motivate and challenge pupils/students.
• Establish a safe and stimulating environment for pupils/students, rooted in mutual respect.
• Set goals that stretch and challenge pupils/students of all backgrounds, abilities and dispositions.
• Demonstrate consistently the positive attitudes, values and behaviour which are expected of pupils/students.
• Promote excellent learning behaviours in the pupils/students so that they work hard in the academy and in completing tasks set for homework.

Promote good progress and outcomes

• Be accountable for all pupils/students’ attainment, progress and outcomes assigned to them.
• Be aware of pupils/students’ capabilities and their prior knowledge, and plan teaching to build on these.
• Guide pupils/students to reflect on the progress they have made and their emerging needs.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how children learn and how this impacts on the organisation of the classroom and teaching.
• Encourage pupils to take a responsible and conscientious attitude to their own work and study.
• Encourage pupils/students to develop study skills in order to learn more effectively and with increasing independence.

Demonstrate good subject and curriculum knowledge

• Have a secure knowledge of the relevant subjects and curriculum areas taught, foster and maintain pupils/students’ interest in the subject, and address misunderstandings.
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of developments in the subjects and curriculum areas, and promote the value of scholarship.
• Demonstrate an understanding of and take responsibility for promoting high standards of literacy, articulacy and the correct use of standard English in all work produced.
• If teaching early reading, demonstrate a clear understanding of systematic synthetic phonics.
• If teaching early mathematics, demonstrate a clear understanding of appropriate teaching strategies.

Plan and teach well-structured lessons

• Impart knowledge and develop understanding through effective use of lesson time.
• Promote a love of learning and children’s intellectual curiosity.
• Set homework and plan other out-of-class activities to consolidate and extend the knowledge and understanding pupils have acquired.
• Reflect systematically on the effectiveness of lessons and approaches to teaching.
• Contribute to the design and provision of an engaging curriculum within the relevant subject area(s).

Adapt teaching to respond to the strengths and needs of all pupils/students

• Know when and how to differentiate appropriately.
• Understand how a range of factors can inhibit pupils/students’ ability to learn, apply this understanding to overcome these restrictions to learning.
• Demonstrate an awareness of the physical, social and intellectual development of children, and know how to adapt teaching to support pupils/students’ education at different stages.
• Have a clear understanding of the needs of all pupils/students, including those with special educational needs; those of high ability; those with English as an additional language; those with disabilities; and be able to use and evaluate distinctive teaching approaches to engage and support them.

Make accurate and productive use of assessment

• Know and understand how to assess the relevant subject and curriculum areas, including statutory assessment requirements.
• Make use of formative and summative assessment to secure pupils/students’ progress.
• Use relevant data to monitor progress, set targets, and plan subsequent lessons.
• Give pupils/students regular feedback, both orally and through accurate marking, and encourage pupils/students to respond to the feedback.

Behaviour and safety and Personal Development

• Manage behaviour effectively to ensure a purposeful, stimulating and safe learning environment.
• Have clear rules and routines for behaviour in classrooms, and take responsibility for promoting good and courteous behaviour both in classrooms and around the site, in accordance with the academy’s behaviour policy.
• Have high expectations of behaviour, and establish a framework for discipline with a range of strategies, using praise, sanctions and rewards consistently and fairly.
• Manage classes effectively, using approaches which are appropriate to pupils/students’ needs in order to involve and motivate them.
• Maintain good relationships with pupils/students, exercise appropriate authority, and act decisively when necessary.
• Carry out playground/bus and other duties as directed and within the remit of the current School teachers’ pay and Conditions Document.
• Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people within the academy, raising any concerns by following the academy safeguarding policies and procedures.
• Promote British values, equalities and pupils’/students’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.

Fulfil wider professional responsibilities

• Make a positive contribution to the wider life and ethos of the academy.
• Develop effective and collaborative professional relationships with colleagues, drawing appropriately on advice and specialist support.
• Deploy support staff effectively.
• Ensure that parents/carers and pupils/students are well informed about the curriculum, attainment and progress and about the contribution they can make in supporting their child’s learning and wellbeing.
• Provide the senior leadership team on request accurate, timely and coherent information about class, group or individual pupil/student progress and attainment in order to inform regular academy development planning.
• Carry out any such duties as may be reasonably required by the Headteacher.

Team working and collaboration

• Participate in any relevant meetings/professional development opportunities which relate to the learners, curriculum or organisation of the academy including pastoral arrangements and assemblies.
• Work as a team member and identify opportunities for working with colleagues and sharing the development of effective practice with them.
• Contribute to the selection and professional development of other teachers and support staff including the induction and assessment of new teachers, teachers serving induction periods and where appropriate threshold assessments.
• Ensure that colleagues working with you are appropriately involved in supporting learning and understand the roles they are expected to fulfil.
• Take part as required in the review, development and management of the activities relating to the curriculum, organisation and pastoral functions of the academy.
• Cover for absent colleagues within the remit of the current School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions document.

Administration

• Register the attendance of and supervise learners, before, during or after sessions as appropriate.
• Participate in and carry out any administrative and organisational tasks within the remit of the current School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document.

Professional development

• Regularly review the effectiveness of your teaching and assessment procedures and its impact on pupils’ progress, attainment and wellbeing, refining your approaches where necessary and responding to advice and feedback from colleagues.
• Be responsible for improving your teaching through participating fully in training and development opportunities identified by the school or as developed as an outcome of your performance management.

What the school offers its staff

• National teacher terms and condition
• Enhanced family friendly leave
• Generous pension scheme contributions
• Occupational Health provisions including physio services
• Employee Assistance helpline for employee and adult dependents
• Discounts packages
• Excellent CPD through Trust Teaching School provisions

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 The Birley Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1091 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: The Birley Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: hr@birleysecondaryacademy.co.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-birley-academy (opens in new tab)

Our students are amazing; they are hugely rewarding to work with and very capable of fantastic achievements. By supporting teaching practitioners and the senior leadership team, you will help to ensure students receive the best education available.

The senior leadership team have a clear strategic plan for the academy. As a group of leaders, we strive for continual improvements in standards and to provide the best learning experiences for all students. We are firmly focused on making the academy the best it can be.

Every member of staff works tirelessly to ensure that learning is relevant, purposeful, engaging and rewarding. We offer an excellent professional development package aimed at supporting staff at every stage of their career.

We work with partners such as L.E.A.D. Teaching School Hub and Learn Sheffield, as well as a host of other nationally recognised providers. If you join our team, you will be part of a group of enthusiastic and dedicated professionals who believe in the power of learning to shape and change the lives of young people.

We believe that our students are entitled to nothing but the best. At The Birley Academy we challenge ourselves to always strive for more. It is our aim to ensure that students are ready, respectful and resilient. We believe that instilling these values will help all to succeed in life.

Our vision is simple: to ensure that we constantly challenge ourselves and our students to aspire to our very best, enjoying learning and being active members of the learning community. As part of the L.E.A.D. Academy Trust, we work with all stakeholders including parents, local businesses, community leaders and our partner primaries to represent and best meet the needs of our students.

Arranging a visit to The Birley Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@birleysecondaryacademy.co.uk.

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