GSCE Maths Teacher

The job in one line

You teach GCSE. That is the job, and we have built the role so that it stays the job.

Who you will be teaching

PET-Xi runs a 16–19 Study Programme for young people mainstream education has not served well. Some were excluded. Some simply stopped attending and nobody chased them. Some arrived in the UK as asylum seekers or refugees and are rebuilding an education in a second language.

Around nine in ten of our learners are neurodiverse. Six in ten come from low-income households, which means the cost of turning up, travel, food, kit, is itself a barrier. Some were referred with at least one contextual safeguarding concern. A few do not speak in class very much.

Every one of them has sat your subject’s exam before and not got the grade. They were handed long odds. Your job is to change them.

What you will actually do

• Teach GCSE. Resit groups in your subject, across the ability and attendance range, for learners who need the grade to move on.
• Assess properly. Diagnose where the subject actually broke down for each learner. For most of them it was years before they met you.
• Mark, feedback, track. Keep progress visible to the learner, not just to the spreadsheet.
• Run the exam cycle. Entries, mocks, access arrangements, revi...