Teacher of Science

To be an effective teacher and tutor who supports and challenges all students to achieve their full potential. Accountabilities: 1. To maintain a thorough and up-to-date knowledge of the teaching of your subject(s) and take account of wider curriculum and pastoral developments which are relevant to your work. 2. To plan tutorials, activities, lessons, and sequences of lessons to meet students' individual learning needs. 3. To use a range of appropriate strategies and follow School policies for tutoring, teaching, behaviour management and classroom management. 4. To do all you can, involving parents and other agencies, to ensure that because of your tutoring and teaching you promote the health, safety, economic wellbeing and achievement of your students. 5. To assess, monitor and record the progress of students in your teaching and tutorial groups and give them clear and constructive feedback.

6. To set well-grounded expectations for students in your teaching and tutorial groups using information about prior knowledge and previous attainment, making progress as good or better than similar students nationally. 7. To take responsibility for your own professional development and use the outcomes to improve your tutoring and teaching and your students' learning. 8. To make an active contribution to the policies, aspirations and plans of your year group, of your curriculum team and of the school. UPS2: UPS2 teachers are expected to make a sustained and substantial contribution to the school based on threshold criteria. UPS3: UPS3 teachers play a critical role in the life of the school. They provide a role model for teaching and learning, make a distinctive contribution to the raising of students' standards and contribute effectively to the work of the wider team. They take advantage of the appropriate opportunities for professional development and use outcomes effectively to improve students' learning. What the school offers its staff What we can offer you:

• The opportunity to work in a school where all staff are viewed as part of the family
• Somewhere where leaders look after you as well as encourage you to pursue your aspirations and goals as part of our trust, teaching and research school
• An organisation where curriculum design and innovation are valued and respected
• A school where the classroom and the learning experience for young people is the centre of everything that we do
• A school with a healthy view of the work life balance needed to be a great teacher
• Excellent schemes of learning and pre-planned resources to support workload reduction.
• A sensible and balanced approach to assessment in order to further reduce workload.
• The freedom to experiment in your own classroom.
• A clear behaviour policy which supports you to be able to teach with enthusiasm and freedom to a receptive audience.
• Opportunities to share your practice and learn from others across the trust and the teaching school alliance.
Commitment to safeguarding