Teacher of Humanities

Purpose of Role

To deliver and instil our VOICE values into the everyday experience of students.

To deliver high quality lessons that follow our Bloomfield Basics pedagogy.

To implement and deliver an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum for students and to support a designated curriculum area as appropriate.

To monitor and support the overall progress and development of students as a teacher and tutor.

To facilitate and encourage a learning experience which provides students with the opportunity to achieve their individual potential across the department.

To contribute to raising standards of student attainment across the department.

To share and support the academy’s responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for spiritual, personal and academic growth.

To plan for the future development of the department

To help secure nationally comparative outcomes in standardised assessments and reading

Main Responsibilities

To develop resources, schemes of learning, assessment policies and teaching strategies with the Head of Humanities.

To co-create the departmental improvement plans and the oversee implementation of these plans.

To plan and prepare lessons and schemes of work.

To use data on student performance to inform target setting, lesson planning and to identify underachieving students across the department.

To support the BEST and academy’s monitoring procedures.

To support the review of teaching strategies and programmes of work.

To attend all department, head of departments and staff meetings.

Co-ordinating and managing work as a form tutor.

Contribute to the review, development and management of curriculum and assessment functions, including the Academy Improvement Plan and working towards individual academy and BEST aims. Improve and monitor the effectiveness of the BEST and academy’s assessment policy.

Ensure all student data is held centrally and is used effectively.

Provide the data team and other staff with relevant information about teaching and tutor groups, to help their planning and ensure all staff have high expectations of students.

Review teaching methods and programmes of work including schemes of learning.

Participate in arrangements for training and continuing professional development.

Contribute to the review, development and management of curriculum and assessment functions, including the School Improvement Plan and working towards individual academy and BEST aims.

Ensure the role of the form tutor is carried out, as stated within the staff handbook.

Specific Duties

To undertake a designated programme of teaching.

To ensure a high-quality learning experience for all students that will stimulate learning appropriate to student needs.

Support with meeting the objectives and tasks identified within the School Development Plan.

To assess, record and report on the attendance, progress, development and attainment of students and to keep such records as are required.

Write reports and providing data for parents to inform them about students’ progress.

To provide, or contribute to, oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual students and groups of students.

Interpreting comparative data regarding student performance, and using this to differentiate and assess.

Take responsibility for professional development, keeping abreast of subject developments and reviews, locally and nationally.

To prepare and update subject materials.

Contribute to the whole-academy and BEST ethos, with due regard to wider professional effectiveness.

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

Employees will be expected to comply with any reasonable request from the line manager/Principal to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in this job description.