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Teacher of Design Technology
We are looking for an outstanding Design Technology practitioner with great passion and drive to join our ambitious and supportive team! This exciting role will not only allow you to teach across the full age range, but also actively shape and develop the curriculum for our students.
You will be a champion for Design Technology subjects. We need a strong team player, who is proactive and driven to succeed, with resolute determination to inspire a love of learning across the school. We always seek enthusiastic and adaptable individuals with excellent professional standards and good communication skills.
This is an opportunity to join our ambitious and innovative team with a strong commitment to providing high quality learning opportunities across the school. We believe in ensuring all students engage with the curriculum and are able to achieve beyond their own expectations. Your passion and talent will combine with cutting edge approaches to teaching to foster confidence and enthusiasm in our students, helping them overcome any barriers to learning. You will be joining a school which invests in all its staff through subject specific CPD and places great emphasis on its own programme of professional growth. This is a position that will offer you a platform to make a real difference both to the students you will inspire.
Salary: MPS / UPS (+possibility for TLR payment for the right candidate)
Closing Date: 15 July 2024, 12.00pm
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About the role
Having regard to the school’s curriculum, and with a view to promoting the development of the abilities and aptitudes of the students in any class or group assigned to them, the successful candidate will:
- Perform the normal duties of a classroom teacher, including curriculum development and lesson planning, teaching, marking, and assessment of student progress, reporting on their development as required.
- Promote the general progress, well-being and attendance of individual students and of any class or group of students assigned to you, including within your role as Form Tutor.
- Communicate effectively with colleagues, parents and any other external partners to support students’ development, and participate in meetings as required.
- Maintain good order and discipline among the students and safeguard their health and safety.
- Supervise and, so far as practicable, teach any students whose Teacher is not available to teach them (except in the case of a Teacher employed wholly or mainly for the purpose of providing such cover, no Teacher shall be required to provide such cover more than rarely).
- Continue your own professional development to support the successful delivery of outstanding teaching and learning strategies.
- Provide or contribute to oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual students and groups of students.
- Promote the general progress, well-being and attendance of individual students and of any class or group of students assigned to them, including within their role as Form Tutor.
- Provide guidance and advice to students on educational and social matters and on their further education and future careers, including information about sources of more expert advice on specific questions.
About the school
The school is very proud of its caring commitment and innovative approach to educating the community of young people in the area, with award-winning programmes designed to help students in Year 7 – 11 thrive in a high school environment and open pathways to their future.
As part of the BePART Educational Trust established by nationally leading sixth form Birkenhead Sixth Form College, the school encourages students to raise aspirations and unlock their true potential through adopting the school values which are intrinsic to everything we do, across all staff and students – Positivity, Ambition, Resilience and Thoughtfulness. Our values shape every interaction with have and are core to our success in nurturing both academic and personal success for every student.
