Key Stage One Teacher

JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB TITLE: Teacher - Primary
REPORTS TO: Principal

You must clearly demonstrate on your application form under each question, how, and to what extent you meet the required criteria as failure to do so may result in you not being shortlisted. You should clearly demonstrate this for both the essential and desirable criteria, where relevant.
You must demonstrate how you meet the criteria by the closing date for applications, unless the criteria state otherwise.
The stage in the process when the criteria will be measured is outlined in the table below.
Shortlisting will be carried out on the basis of the essential criteria set out in Section 1 below, using the information provided by you on your application form.
Please note that the Selection Panel reserves the right to shortlist only those applicants that it believes most strongly meet the criteria for the role.
In the event of an excessive number of applications, the Selection Panel also reserves the right to apply any desirable criteria as outlined in Section 3 at shortlisting, in which case these will be applied in the order listed. It is important therefore that you also clearly demonstrate on your application form how you meet any desirable criteria.

• General professional duties
  • Exercise of general professional duties
  • if he/she is employed as a teacher in a school under the reasonable direction of the principal of that school;
  • if he/she is employed by a board on terms under which he is not assigned to any one school, under the reasonable direction of that board and of the principal of any school in which he/she may for the time being be required to work as a teacher.
• Particular duties
  • if he/she is employed as a teacher (other than a principal) in a school shall perform, in accordance with any directions which may be reasonably given to him/her by the principal from time to time, such particular duties as may reasonably be assigned to him/her.
  • if a teacher to whom paragraph 1(b) refers shall perform, in accordance with any direction which may reasonably be given to him/her from time to time by the board or by the principal of any school in which he/she may for the time being be required to work as a teacher, such particular duties as may reasonably be assigned to him/her.
• Planning
  • Planning and preparing courses and lessons;
  • Teaching, according to their educational needs, the pupils assigned to them, 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 duties
  • Promoting the general progress and well‑being of individual pupils and of any class or group of pupils assigned to them;
  • Providing advice and guidance to pupils on educational and social matters and on their further education and future careers including 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 cooperating 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 their methods of teaching and programmes of work;
  • Participating in arrangements for their further training and professional development as a teacher;
  • Advising and cooperating 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…