Primary Teacher Full Time

Key Task:

• To deliver lessons that inspire students to succeed in order to achieve the best possible outcomes.
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Be committed to developing positive relationships with all members of the school community.
• Liaising with colleagues and working flexibly.
• Working with parents to ensure the happiness and best academic outcomes for all children.

Teaching and learning:

• Organising the classroom provision and learning resources and creating displays to encourage a positive and engaging learning environment.
• Planning, preparing and presenting sessions that cater for the needs of the whole ability range within the class.
• Motivating pupils with enthusiastic, imaginative teaching.
• Observing and assessing children in line with school assessments.
• Meeting with other professionals such as speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and educational psychologists, if required.

Assessment and data:

• Meeting requirements for the assessment and recording of student’s development using Target Tracker.
• Using data provided by assessments to influence further planning, provision and intervention.
• Providing feedback to parents and carers on a student’s progress at Parent Teacher Conferences and other meetings

Behavior management and duties:

• Manage classes effectively, using approaches which are appropriate to students’ needs in order to inspire, motivate and challenge pupils.
• Maintain good relationships with pupils, exercise appropriate authority, and act decisively when necessary within the school’s behavioral policy.
• Be a positive role model and demonstrate consistently the positive attitudes, values and behaviour, which are expected of pupils.

Minimum Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related subject with the appropriate teaching qualification, e.g. Bachelors in Elementary Education
• Minimum 2 – 3 years of teaching experience in Elementary

Job specific knowledge & skills:

• Previous experience working with students whom English is not their first language
• Passion for teaching and commitment to educating the whole child
• A high level of professionalism and consideration of the well-being of children
• Recent and consistent involvement in extra-curricular activities
• A positive and solution-focused attitude to working life
• A clean enhanced Disclosure and Barring Services check or police check