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Primary STEM Lead Practitioner and Class Teacher

Reference: JAN20182000
Expiry date: 2018-03-21 09:00:00.000
Location: Nottinghamshire
Salary: £39,374.00 - £42,398.00 Per Annum
Benefits: Pension, Healthcare & CPD
Attachments: VacancyAdLPTeacherSept2018.pdf
VacancyJobPackLPTeacherSept2018.pdf

Job Description – Primary Lead Practitioner Reports to: Head of School

Key purpose of the job

  • To be an exemplar and model of high quality teaching skills within the school
  • To be accountable for the standards of teaching and learning and pupil progress in Science, Technology (including DT and Computing), Engineering and cross-curricular Mathematics (STEM) throughout the school.
  • To lead, manage and develop STEM subjects throughout the school.
  • To manage a team ensuring best practice across identified areas of the curriculum.
  • To develop the use of ICT to support and enhance teaching and learning.
  • To exercise professional skills and judgement.
  • To impact on the educational progress of all pupils in the school and, where required, beyond the school.
  • To lead, develop and enhance the classroom practice of teaching staff and teaching assistants.

Strategic development

  • Plan and deliver strategy and improvement in STEM subjects across school. Use national, local and school management data to monitor standards of achievement across the school in STEM subjects.  Monitor the progress made towards achieving targets and use this information to plan future developments.
  • Develop partnerships with colleagues and external specialists
  • Collaborate with staff on short, medium and long term planning to develop STEM subjects in relation to:
    • Resources
    • Continuous professional development of staff
    • Aims of the school, including its policies and practices
    • Challenging targets for improvement

Teaching and learning

  • Plan and monitor coverage, continuity and progression in STEM subjects throughout the school.
  • Ensure that teachers are clear about learning objectives, understand the sequence of teaching and learning in all STEM subjects and communicate this to pupils effectively.
  • Support and guide colleagues to select the most appropriate teaching and learning methods and resources to meet the needs of the full range of pupils.
  • Establish and implement clear policies and practices for assessing, recording and reporting on pupil achievement in line with school policy.
  • Evaluate the teaching and learning of STEM subjects in the school through monitoring activities including:
    • Lesson observations
    • Work and planning scrutiny
    • Pupil discussions
    • Analysis of results and assessment data
    • Attending planning meetings
    • Leading staff training
    • Informal discussions

Use this analysis to identify effective practice and areas for improvement and, in conjunction with the leadership team, take action to further improve the quality of teaching and learning across the school.

  • Manage teaching and learning across identified areas of the curriculum.

Leading and Managing Staff

  • Lead subject co-ordinators with responsibility for individual subjects within the STEM group.
  • Lead professional development of teaching staff and teaching assistants through example, support and design / delivery of Continuing Professional Development.
  • Ensure trainee, newly qualified and staff new to the school receive appropriate support for teaching and learning.
  • Acting as coach or mentor to teachers experiencing difficulties.

Effective and efficient deployment of staff and resources

  • Establish resource and staff requirements for STEM subjects and inform the head teacher of costs and priorities.
  • Distribute resources to meet the objectives of the school.
  • Ensure the effective and efficient management of learning resources for STEM subjects.
  • Ensure a stimulating but safe learning environment in which risks are regularly assessed.
  • Ensure compliance with health and safety expectations in STEM lessons

Other professional requirements

  • Establish and maintain effective working relationships with professional colleagues and other subject leaders to develop cross curricular links and creative approaches to learning.
  • Establish effective relationships with parents and inform them of developments and practices relating to the teaching and learning of STEM subjects.
  • Participate in meetings with professional colleagues and parents in respect of the duties and responsibilities of the post.
  • Be aware of the need to take responsibility for your own professional development.
  • Play a full part in the life of the school community, to support its distinctive mission and ethos and to encourage staff and pupils to follow this example.
  • Undertake any other duty as specified by Head teacher not mentioned in the above.

Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each individual task undertaken may not be identified.

This job description is current at the date shown, but, in consultation with you, may be changed by the Head of school to reflect or anticipate changes in the job commensurate with the grade and job title.

Please see attached job pack for additional Class Teacher job description.