Teacher - Primary - KS2 Job Ann Arbor area,Michigan USA,Education / Teaching

Job Title

Teacher
- Primary - KS2 at Education Authority Northern Ireland

Location &

Employment Type

Newtownabbey, Michigan, United States
- Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Job Overview

Teacher – Primary. The role includes responsibility for planning and delivering lessons, assessing student progress, maintaining a safe and disciplined learning environment, and collaborating with staff, parents and relevant bodies to support the educational and social development of students.

Professional Duties

Planning

Planning and preparing courses and lessons;
Teaching, according to their educational needs, the pupils assigned to him/her, including the setting and marking of work to be carried out by the pupils in school and elsewhere;
Assessing, recording and reporting on the development, progress and attainment of pupils.

General

Promoting the general progress and well‑being of individual pupils and of any class or group of pupils assigned to him/her;
Providing advice and guidance to pupils on educational and social matters and on their further education and future careers including information about sources of more expert advice on specific questions, making relevant records and reports;
Making records of and reports on the personal and social needs of pupils except in instances where to do so might be regarded as compromising a teacher’s own position;
Communicating and consulting with the parents of pupils;
Communicating and co‑operating with such persons or bodies outside the school as may be approved by the employing authority and the Board of Governors;
Participating in meetings arranged for any of the purposes described above.

Assessment/Reporting

Providing or contributing to oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual pupils and groups of pupils except in instances where to do so might be regarded as compromising a teacher’s own position.

Staff Development / Professional Development

Participating, if required, in any scheme of staff development and performance review;
Reviewing from time to time his/her methods of teaching and programmes of work;
Participating in arrangements for his/her further training and professional development as a teacher;
Advising and co‑operating with the Principal and other teachers on the preparation and development of courses of study, teaching materials, teaching programmes, methods of teaching and assessment and pastoral arrangements.

Discipline / Health and Safety

Maintaining good order and discipline among pupils in accordance with the policies of the employing authority and safeguarding their health and safety both when they are authorised to be on the school premises and when they are engaged in authorised school activities elsewhere;
Participating in meetings at the school which relate to the curriculum for the school or the administration or organisation of the school, including pastoral arrangements.

Public Examinations

Participating in arrangements for preparing pupils for public examinations and in assessing pupils for the purposes of such examinations; recording and reporting such assessments; and participating in arrangements for pupils’ presentation for and supervision during such examination.

Review and Development of Management Activities / Administration

Contributing to the selection for appointment and professional development of other teachers, including the induction and assessment of probationary teachers;
Co‑ordinating or managing the work of other teachers;
Taking such part as may be required of him/her in the review, development and management of activities relating to the curriculum, organisation and pastoral functions of the school.
Participating in administrative and organisational tasks related to such duties as described above, including the management or supervision of persons providing support for the teachers in the school and the ordering and allocation of equipment and materials.
Subject to the provisions of Article 22 of the Order, attending assemblies;
Registering the attendance of pupils and supervising pupils, whether these duties are to be performed before, during or after school sessions.

Number of days / Hours of work

A full‑time…