Teacher of English

Job

Purpose

To ensure that all students make maximum progress.

To deliver engaging, differentiated and well-planned

lessons guided by Blenheim’s 10 Typical best practices.

To achieve high standards of student

attainment and progress in public examinations.

To ensure students of all ages are

supported and challenged as necessary and achieve optimum levels of

engagement with school life.

To support and challenge members of the

department as necessary thus ensuring that the student experience and progress

is maximised.

To help maximise student attendance by the

department delivering creative, innovative and rewarding lessons.

To role model excellent practices, going

‘above and beyond’, intervening with students outside the curriculum so

they ‘catch up’ as quickly as possible.

To support and challenge Heads of Year so

that underachieving students have barriers removed from their learning and

regularly show good learning behaviours including being properly equipped

for lessons.

To encourage students to improve their

Cultural Capital so that their life chances are improved.

To

follow department and whole school guidelines e.g. deadlines are met,

registers are taken, students have challenging starter activities

recapping prior learning, the main parts of lessons involve students

applying their newly acquired skills or knowledge regularly and

expediently etc.

To ensure lessons are well planned and

follow schemes of work with regular and consistent assessments providing

students with high quality feedback which they are accountable for acting

upon via DIRT marking.

To encourage a culture of shared practice

in the department where resources are shared, practices are discussed and

peer lesson observations take place on a regular basis; typically half

termly.

To communicate with parents on a range of

issues, particularly where students are underachieving.

To communicate appropriate information to

teaching and support staff.

To

contribute to a confidential record of issues affecting the educational

progress of students.

To be highly visible and a point of

contact for students and families.

To reinforce consistently the school’s 10

school uniform non-negotiables.

Safeguarding

To be familiar with school policies, in

particular safeguarding procedures, and promote the welfare of children.

Key

Responsibilities

To

advocate the place of the department in the curriculum and the benefits it

will provide students once they leave school.

Ensure

potentially vulnerable students succeed through

differentiation and stimulating lesson delivery.

Track

and monitor data and use it optimally to inform practice.

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