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Mathematics Teachers
| Posting date: | 08 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | £30,000.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Salary - £30K + (Higher salary offered subject to experience |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 February 2025 |
| Location: | B70 6QT |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Sandwell Valley School |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Teacher of Mathematics
Key Responsibilities
•To deliver high quality Maths curriculum through effective teaching and learning.
•To teach subsidiary subjects as agreed.
•To carry out the professional duties of a qualified teacher as identified in the DfE Teachers’ Standards.
Teaching & Learning
•Plan work in accordance with the curriculum area programmes of study ensuring progress and the personalised learning needs of every student.
•Liaise with relevant colleagues on the planning of units of work for collaborative delivery. Work in collaboration with associate staff attached to any teaching group.
•Take account of students’ prior levels of learning and achievement and use them to set targets for future improvements.
•Maintain positive relationships with staff and students to enable effective teaching to take place.
•Set high expectations for students’ behaviour by establishing a purposeful working atmosphere in accordance with the Behaviour Policy.
•Use various strategies such as de-escalation to manage various challenging behaviours
•Provide students with the opportunities to develop the skills required in order to learn.
•Listen to the views of students about their preferred methods and styles of learning.
•Set appropriate and demanding expectations for students’ learning, motivation, and presentation of work.
•Work at all times within the Health & Safety regulations of our school and ensure a safe working environment.
•Maintain a high level of display within his/her teaching room.
•Adhere to all the guidance as set out in the staff handbook.
Assessment & Reporting
•Maintain notes and plans of lessons undertaken and records of students’ work in line with the School’s Teaching and Learning policy.
•Mark/provide feedback, monitor and return work as directed in the school marking policy.
•Complete formal assessment and input results through the MIS system in line with policy and as specified in the published calendar.
•Complete student behaviour logs on the MIS system in line with the policy.
•Attend the appropriate Parents’ Evenings to keep parents informed about the progress of their child.
•Be familiar with the code of practice for identification and assessment for Special Educational Needs and keep appropriate records and personalised learning plans.
Care & Guidance
•Undertake responsibility for a tutor group or for any other arrangement for the care and guidance of students as is required by the School, including tutor, student interviews and coaching and mentoring.
•Be the first point of contact for parents.
•Monitor (and set targets for) for students to improve motivation, behaviour or achievement as and when required.
•Be prepared to undertake responsibility for the delivery of PHSE and employability skills during form groups.
•Promote good attendance and monitor in accordance with the School’s attendance policy.
Professional Standards
•Support the ethos, vision, principles and values of the School
•Treat colleagues, students and all members of the community, with respect and consideration.
•Treat all students fairly, consistently and without prejudice
•Set a good example to students in terms of appropriate dress, standards of punctuality and attendance.
•Support the aims of the School through attendance at and participation in events such as open evenings, option evenings and the like (as appropriate to responsibilities).
•Support the ethos of the School by upholding the code of conduct, uniform rules, etc.
•Take responsibility for own professional development and participate in arrangements as adopted by the School for the assessment of his/her performance and that of other teachers.
•Reflect on own practice as well as the practices of the School with the aim of improving all that we do and achieving excellence.
•Read and adhere to the various policies of the School and implement School improvement plans.
•Attend school staff meetings and participate in and contribute to weekly departmental meetings
•Undertake duties as prescribed within the School’s policies.
•Ensure that all deadlines are met as published in the school calendar or deadlines set by the SLT.
•Undertake professional duties that may be reasonably assigned to them by the Principal.
•Be proactive and take responsibility for matters relating to health and safety.
Knowledge & Understanding
•A clear understanding of current educational issues, theory and practice.
•Have a detailed knowledge of the relevant aspects of the National Curriculum and other statutory requirements.
•Undertake mandatory and professional CPD and have a secure and detailed knowledge of the specialised subject.
•Have an understanding of effective strategies to deliver their specialised subject.
Planning & Setting Expectation
•Identify clear teaching and learning objectives, content, lesson structure and sequences appropriate to the subject matter and the subject being taught.
•Maintain a quality file including Intent, implementation and Impact statements, scheme of work and curriculum plan for each term.
•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 speak English as a second language and know where to get help in order to give positive and targeted support. Implement and keep records on personalised learning needs.
Ensure all students are registered with the awarding bodies and exams in a timely.
Key Responsibilities
•To deliver high quality Maths curriculum through effective teaching and learning.
•To teach subsidiary subjects as agreed.
•To carry out the professional duties of a qualified teacher as identified in the DfE Teachers’ Standards.
Teaching & Learning
•Plan work in accordance with the curriculum area programmes of study ensuring progress and the personalised learning needs of every student.
•Liaise with relevant colleagues on the planning of units of work for collaborative delivery. Work in collaboration with associate staff attached to any teaching group.
•Take account of students’ prior levels of learning and achievement and use them to set targets for future improvements.
•Maintain positive relationships with staff and students to enable effective teaching to take place.
•Set high expectations for students’ behaviour by establishing a purposeful working atmosphere in accordance with the Behaviour Policy.
•Use various strategies such as de-escalation to manage various challenging behaviours
•Provide students with the opportunities to develop the skills required in order to learn.
•Listen to the views of students about their preferred methods and styles of learning.
•Set appropriate and demanding expectations for students’ learning, motivation, and presentation of work.
•Work at all times within the Health & Safety regulations of our school and ensure a safe working environment.
•Maintain a high level of display within his/her teaching room.
•Adhere to all the guidance as set out in the staff handbook.
Assessment & Reporting
•Maintain notes and plans of lessons undertaken and records of students’ work in line with the School’s Teaching and Learning policy.
•Mark/provide feedback, monitor and return work as directed in the school marking policy.
•Complete formal assessment and input results through the MIS system in line with policy and as specified in the published calendar.
•Complete student behaviour logs on the MIS system in line with the policy.
•Attend the appropriate Parents’ Evenings to keep parents informed about the progress of their child.
•Be familiar with the code of practice for identification and assessment for Special Educational Needs and keep appropriate records and personalised learning plans.
Care & Guidance
•Undertake responsibility for a tutor group or for any other arrangement for the care and guidance of students as is required by the School, including tutor, student interviews and coaching and mentoring.
•Be the first point of contact for parents.
•Monitor (and set targets for) for students to improve motivation, behaviour or achievement as and when required.
•Be prepared to undertake responsibility for the delivery of PHSE and employability skills during form groups.
•Promote good attendance and monitor in accordance with the School’s attendance policy.
Professional Standards
•Support the ethos, vision, principles and values of the School
•Treat colleagues, students and all members of the community, with respect and consideration.
•Treat all students fairly, consistently and without prejudice
•Set a good example to students in terms of appropriate dress, standards of punctuality and attendance.
•Support the aims of the School through attendance at and participation in events such as open evenings, option evenings and the like (as appropriate to responsibilities).
•Support the ethos of the School by upholding the code of conduct, uniform rules, etc.
•Take responsibility for own professional development and participate in arrangements as adopted by the School for the assessment of his/her performance and that of other teachers.
•Reflect on own practice as well as the practices of the School with the aim of improving all that we do and achieving excellence.
•Read and adhere to the various policies of the School and implement School improvement plans.
•Attend school staff meetings and participate in and contribute to weekly departmental meetings
•Undertake duties as prescribed within the School’s policies.
•Ensure that all deadlines are met as published in the school calendar or deadlines set by the SLT.
•Undertake professional duties that may be reasonably assigned to them by the Principal.
•Be proactive and take responsibility for matters relating to health and safety.
Knowledge & Understanding
•A clear understanding of current educational issues, theory and practice.
•Have a detailed knowledge of the relevant aspects of the National Curriculum and other statutory requirements.
•Undertake mandatory and professional CPD and have a secure and detailed knowledge of the specialised subject.
•Have an understanding of effective strategies to deliver their specialised subject.
Planning & Setting Expectation
•Identify clear teaching and learning objectives, content, lesson structure and sequences appropriate to the subject matter and the subject being taught.
•Maintain a quality file including Intent, implementation and Impact statements, scheme of work and curriculum plan for each term.
•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 speak English as a second language and know where to get help in order to give positive and targeted support. Implement and keep records on personalised learning needs.
Ensure all students are registered with the awarding bodies and exams in a timely.