English Teacher

Job Description

About the School:

Aspen Heights British School (AHBS) is an ambitious school based on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi. We are proud of our community ethos and our commitment to ensuring all children are provided with personalised learning experiences and the proper support to ensure they can make progress in learning in all areas, and achieve academic success.

• Leaders of Learning secure and sustain effective teaching of the subject, evaluate the quality and standards of students’ achievement and set targets for improvement to:

• Monitor to ensure curriculum coverage, continuity and progression in the subject for all students including those of high ability and those with additional educational needs;

• Ensure that teachers are clear about the teaching objectives in lessons, understand the sequence of teaching and learning in the subject, and communicate this information to students;

• Provide guidance on the choice of appropriate teaching and learning methods to meet the needs of the department and of different students;

• Ensure that curriculum delivery is maintained and that meaningful work is provided for classes when colleagues are absent;

• Ensure effective development of students’ literacy, numeracy and information technology skills in the subject;

• Working in close consultation with the Leadership Team, establish and implement clear procedures and practices for assessing, recording and reporting on student attainment, and use this information to recognise achievement and to assist students in setting targets for future improvement;

• Ensure that information about students’ achievements in previous classes and schools is used effectively to secure good progress in the subject;

• Establish clear targets for student achievement, and evaluate progress and achievement by all students, including those with special educational and linguistic needs;

• Evaluate the teaching of the subject in the school, use this analysis to identify effective practice and areas for improvement, and take action to improve further the quality of teaching;

• Ensure effective development of students’ individual and collaborative study skills necessary for them to become increasingly independent in their work and to complete tasks independently when out of school;

• Establish a partnership with parents to involve them in their child’s learning of the subject, as well as providing information about curriculum, attainment, progress and targets;

• Develop effective links with the local community, including government agencies, business and industry, in order to extend the subject curriculum, enhance teaching and to develop student’s wider understanding

• Have a secure knowledge of the subject and curriculum areas, foster and maintain pupils’ interest in the subject, and address misunderstandings

• Demonstrate a critical understanding of developments in the subject and curriculum areas, and promote the value of scholarship

• Demonstrate an understanding of and take responsibility for promoting high standards of literacy, articulacy and the correct use of standard English, whatever your specialist subject

• Impart knowledge and develop understanding through effective use of lesson time

• Promote a love of learning and children’s intellectual curiosity

• Set homework and plan other out-of-class activities to consolidate and extend the knowledge and understanding pupils have acquired

• Reflect systematically on the effectiveness of lessons and approaches to teaching

• Contribute to the design and provision of an engaging curriculum within the relevant subject area(s)

• Contribute to the development of schemes of work and department resources

• Adapt teaching to respond to the strengths and needs of all pupils

• Know when and how to differentiate appropriately, using approaches which enable pupils to be taught effectively

• Have a secure understanding of how a range of factors can inhibit pupils’ ability to learn, and how best to overcome these

• Demonstrate an awareness of the physical, social and intellectual development of…