Temporary Teacher of Criminology

New Collaborative Learning Trust; Pontefract; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An educational organization in Pontefract is seeking a dedicated teacher with strong communication and collaboration skills to engage with students and their families. The role involves planning and delivering well-organized lessons while adapting to various learning abilities. Candidates must have a relevant teaching qualification and a commitment to fostering student potential. Opportunities to collaborate with colleagues and participate in school activities are included.

Qualifications

• Must have a commitment to ensuring student educational potential.
• Effective communication with students and parents is essential.
• Knowledge of teaching and assessment strategies is required.

Responsibilities

• Teach well-organized lessons across various abilities.
• Adapt teaching styles to meet student needs.
• Maintain records of student progress.

Skills

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Adaptability in teaching

Education

Relevant teaching qualification

Job description

Relationships with Young People

• Have high expectations of young people including a commitment to ensuring that they can achieve their full educational potential and to ensure students are treated as unique individuals.
• Hold positive values and attitudes and adopt high standards of behaviour in their professional role.
• Motivate and build self-esteem and self-worth/self-belief, developing a ‘can do’ attitude with students.

Communication

• Communicate effectively with students and colleagues.
• Communicate effectively with parents and carers at appropriate times, conveying relevant information about attainment, objectives and progress.
• Participate in open events and parents/student consultation evenings as appropriate.

Teaching and Learning

• Demonstrate a good up to date working knowledge and understanding of a range of teaching, learning and assessment strategies and know how to use and adopt them to provide opportunities for all learners to achieve their potential.
• Be fully conversant with the assessment requirements for the subjects/curriculum areas taught, including those relating to public examinations and qualifications.
• Being fully conversant with a range of approaches to assessment including the importance of formative assessment.
• Understand what makes good ‘one to one’ academic monitoring interviews with students, in order to provide students with constructive individual feedback on strengths and recipes for improvement including action plans for improvement.
• Demonstrate a secure knowledge and understanding of your subject and related pedagogy.

All staff and senior post holders have a duty for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people. Staff must be aware of the Trust procedures for raising concerns about students’ welfare and must report any concern to the designated officers without delay.

Staff must also ensure that they attend the appropriate level of safeguarding training identified by the Trust as relevant to their role.

The post holder’s duties must at all times be carried out in compliance with the Trust’s Equality and Diversity Policy, and the post holder must take reasonable care of the health and safety of self, other persons and resources whilst at work. This entails supporting the Trust’s responsibilities under the Health and Safety Act.

All staff are expected to support the achievement of the Trust’s vision and strategic objectives and to demonstrate its values through their behaviour.

Key Responsibilities:

• Teach challenging, well organised lessons and sequences of lessons across the ability range taught in which: An appropriate range of teaching strategies and resources are utilised.
• Students’ prior knowledge and attainment are built upon, in order that they meet learning objectives and make sustained progress.
• Adapt language to suit the differential ability of students, when introducing new ideas and concepts using explanations, questions, discussions and plenaries effectively teach engaging and motivational lessons designed to raise levels of attainment.
• Keep adequate records of students in your charge.
• Follow the school’s scheme of work, homework assessments and be involved in regular updating and review.
• Manage the learning of individuals and whole classes effectively, modifying teaching appropriately to suit the stage of the lesson and needs of the learner.
• Use assessment as part of teaching to diagnose needs, set realistic and challenging targets for improvements and planning future teaching.
• Review the effectiveness of teaching and its impact on student progress and attainment through reviews with the Head of School.

Team Working and Collaboration

• Work with team member and as a team member; identify opportunities for working colleagues and sharing effective practice with them.
• Participate in School Meetings and contribute to the use and development of appropriate specifications/syllabuses, schemes of work, assessment strategies and teaching and learning approaches