Economics & Business Teacher
| Posting date: | 28 September 2024 |
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| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 08 October 2024 |
| Location: | Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS2 4UZ |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 4bb0df94-fe69-46fe-bbfb-581ec406e016 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful candidate should:
• Be an inspirational classroom practitioner with an irresistible enthusiasm for their subject. As a reflective practitioner you will be constantly looking to develop your practice through collaboration, experimentation, and hard work.
• Be a team player working closely with the Head of Department to develop the learning experiences for all our students.
• Be creative and innovative constantly looking for new ways to challenge our high ability students.
• Contribute to secure the highest standards of pupil achievement, monitoring, tracking, supporting, and evaluating pupil achievement. Set targets for improvement and implement effective strategies for underperforming students.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you:
• Highly motivated, curious, and industrious students.
• A strong, highly qualified staff team and an ethos of tolerance and respect with a family community spirit.
• A commitment to ongoing professional development and staff wellbeing.
• An environment which promotes innovation.
Further details about the role
You will be joining a thriving economics and business department working within a successful social sciences faculty which includes psychology, sociology, politics, economics, and business. We value collaboration to ensure there is a vibrant learning and teaching experience for all with opportunities to get involved with visiting speakers, trips, external lectures, presentations, and EPQ.
We offer A Level Economics and A Level Business in the Sixth Form with GCSE Business as an option at Key Stage 4. Economics and Business courses at A Level and GCSE are usually oversubscribed. Results are testament to our diligent and hardworking students and staff, and in 2024, 93% achieved grades A*-B in A Level Economics, 83% achieved grades A*-B in A Level Business, and 73% achieved grades 9 – 7 in GCSE Business.
A good number of students go on to study economics or business-related courses at university. In recent years the department has prepared students for courses at Oxford and Cambridge, LSE, Nottingham, and Bath Universities as well as Degree Apprenticeships with institutions such as KPMG, NatWest, Barclays, J P Morgan, and PWC.
Commitment to safeguarding
All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check.
The successful candidate should:
• Be an inspirational classroom practitioner with an irresistible enthusiasm for their subject. As a reflective practitioner you will be constantly looking to develop your practice through collaboration, experimentation, and hard work.
• Be a team player working closely with the Head of Department to develop the learning experiences for all our students.
• Be creative and innovative constantly looking for new ways to challenge our high ability students.
• Contribute to secure the highest standards of pupil achievement, monitoring, tracking, supporting, and evaluating pupil achievement. Set targets for improvement and implement effective strategies for underperforming students.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you:
• Highly motivated, curious, and industrious students.
• A strong, highly qualified staff team and an ethos of tolerance and respect with a family community spirit.
• A commitment to ongoing professional development and staff wellbeing.
• An environment which promotes innovation.
Further details about the role
You will be joining a thriving economics and business department working within a successful social sciences faculty which includes psychology, sociology, politics, economics, and business. We value collaboration to ensure there is a vibrant learning and teaching experience for all with opportunities to get involved with visiting speakers, trips, external lectures, presentations, and EPQ.
We offer A Level Economics and A Level Business in the Sixth Form with GCSE Business as an option at Key Stage 4. Economics and Business courses at A Level and GCSE are usually oversubscribed. Results are testament to our diligent and hardworking students and staff, and in 2024, 93% achieved grades A*-B in A Level Economics, 83% achieved grades A*-B in A Level Business, and 73% achieved grades 9 – 7 in GCSE Business.
A good number of students go on to study economics or business-related courses at university. In recent years the department has prepared students for courses at Oxford and Cambridge, LSE, Nottingham, and Bath Universities as well as Degree Apprenticeships with institutions such as KPMG, NatWest, Barclays, J P Morgan, and PWC.
Commitment to safeguarding
All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check.