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Teacher of Modern Foreign Languages

Shenley Academy, Birmingham, West Midlands, B29 4HE

This job expired on 4 September 2023 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  1 January 2024

• Closing date

  4 September 2023 at 9am

• Date listed

  8 June 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £28,000.00 to £43,685.00

Teacher of Modern Foreign Languages job summary

Shenley Academy is a good school (OFSTED, July 2021) with leadership and management, behaviour and personal development all judged as outstanding.

You would be joining a forward-thinking academy which places the mental health and the wellbeing of staff and students at the heart of what we do. "The school’s motto, ‘Building futures, changing lives’, is exactly what happens here. Everyone involved in the school is committed to every pupil’s welfare, well-being and academic success. Pupils’ mental health is front and centre in leaders’ thinking and decision-making.

As a result, pupils thrive and achieve well." (OFSTED, 2021). 

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an able and inspiring Teacher of MFL to join the team here at Shenley Academy, . The successful candidate will develop, plan and deliver effective and high quality learning experiences for all students, ensuring progression is central to all lesson plans and giving our students the confidence to think big for themselves as they progress through our academy.

Key Accountabilities:

Reporting to the Head of Faculty, this post holder will be accountable for

 

Teaching and learning

• Set challenging teaching and learning objectives which are relevant to all students in your classes
• Select and prepare a range of resources that take in to account all students’ learning needs, languages and cultural backgrounds
• Apply a range of teaching strategies to deliver learning objectives and incorporate inclusive strategies that meet the needs of all learners
• To work collaboratively with other professionals and manage the work of support staff to enhance students’ learning

 

Assessment and Reporting

• Have knowledge of a range of approaches to assessment, including questioning, oral assessment and self-assessment and the importance of formative assessment.
• Make effective use of a range of assessment monitoring and recording strategies to assess the learning needs of your students in order to set challenging learning objectives and plan for future teaching. 

Pastoral

• Know how to identify and support learners affected by changes or difficulties in their personal circumstances.
• To act as a tutor for students supporting the academic and pastoral needs of each individual. 
• Have a good understanding of factors influencing student learning, including ethnicity, gender, abilities and attainment and how these relate to personalised provision for students.

Subject knowledge and understanding

• Maintain a secure knowledge and understanding of your subject(s) and related pedagogy to enable you to teach effectively at the Academy
• Take responsibility for your own professional development by reviewing your own performance, acting upon advice/feedback and keeping abreast of current developments in good practice

Please read the supporting documentation and Job description carefully before completing our application and equal opportunities form.

What the trust offers in return:

 

• Teacher Pension
• Ride to Work Scheme
• Market leading Personal Development and Training plans to further your career
• Access to Mental Health First Aid Programme
• 24 hours access to Employee Assistance Programme

E-ACT is a highly successful Multi Academy Trust (MAT) encompassing 28 Academies spanning the length breath of the country. Our hopes and aspirations of every one of our pupils is the same. By encouraging them to Think Big and believe that anything is possible, by showing them the importance of Team Spirit and by teaching them to carefully think through their decisions to do The Right Thing, we know that everyone of our pupils can realise their potential with us.

Our community includes over 18,000 pupils and 2,500 teaching and non-teaching professional across the country.

E-ACT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults, and all appointments are subject to enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks and satisfactory references.

E-ACT is also committed to promoting equality, challenging discrimination and developing community cohesion. We welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Commitment to safeguarding

E-ACT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults, and all appointments are subject to enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks and satisfactory references.

E-ACT is also committed to promoting equality, challenging discrimination and developing community cohesion. We welcome applications from all sections of the community.

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About Shenley Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 825 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Shenley Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/shenley-academy (opens in new tab)

Our Academy

Shenley Academy has been on an incredible journey, having been judged as inadequate in October 2018 to an overall judgement of Good in July 2021, with:

• outstanding leadership and management

• outstanding personal development

• outstanding behaviour and attitudes.

We are a forward-thinking and dynamic 11-16 academy set in a beautiful 37-acre site in Birmingham. Our moto is ‘building futures, changing lives’ and our most recent OFSTED report states:

“..this is exactly what happens here. Everyone involved in the school is committed to every pupil’s welfare, well-being and academic success. Pupils’ mental health is front and centre in leaders’ thinking and decision making”, OFSTED July 2021

https://shenleyacademy.e-act.org.uk/about/ofsted-reports/

The curriculum is at the heart of everything that we do, and we are committed to providing our pupils with an exceptional education and wider school experience, supporting every individual to achieve the very best possible outcomes.

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