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Lecturer in Initial Teacher Education (Primary)

Job details
Posting date: 17 September 2024
Salary: £38,205 to £44,263 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 07 October 2024
Location: Stoke, Staffordshire
Remote working: Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week
Company: Staffordshire University
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: HEPS158-24

Summary

About the role

Through innovative teaching, insightful research and inspired partnerships, the Education Department at Staffordshire University is producing the creative, passionate and highly skilled teachers. Join us and you will experience a progressive culture that gives everyone the freedom to achieve and the support to succeed.

Staffordshire University offers both undergraduate and post-graduate routes into primary teaching. We were successfully inspected by OFSTED in 2024, ranked 5th place in Guardian Subject League Tables for 2025 and are fully accredited to offer teacher training. We are looking for a highly skilled and enthusiastic academic to lead teaching on both our BA (Hons) Primary Education with QTS (3-7) (5-11), PGCE Primary awards, and our Primary Teacher Apprenticeship too.

We have a vacancy for a Lecturer in primary education. We’re looking for someone with high quality experience of learning and teaching primary aged children. We want a candidate that is passionate about the development of the primary teaching workforce, and that will help us shape this new and exciting award. We are seeking someone that has experience and ability to design a creative and inspiring primary curriculum.

The successful candidate should possess an appropriate teaching qualification alongside their post-graduate academic qualification. Experience in leading Initial Teacher Education (ITE), school management and training would useful for this post.

Main Responsibilities

The main responsibilities for our Lecturer in Initial Teacher Education (Primary) will be to:

To play a role in the development and delivery of academic provision to undergraduate and postgraduate students, specifically in the area of primary initial teacher training and related disciplines.
To contribute to ITE Mentor Development and training
To observe ITE students in placements
Contribute to the teacher training courses, curriculum and quality assurance processes
To contribute to University led and/or School initiatives and developments in line with strategic business development plans
Contact For Informal Discussion

Dr Jim Pugh - Director of the Institute of Education - j.pugh@staffs.ac.uk

Kate Dale - Interim Course Director for ITE - k.dale@staffs.ac.uk