EYFS Class teacher

Job Description A) Safeguarding

1. Work in line with statutory safeguarding

guidance (e. g. Keeping Children Safe in Education, Prevent) and our

safeguarding and child protection policies.

2. Work with the designated safeguarding lead

(DSL) to promote the best interests of pupils, including sharing concerns where

necessary.

3. Promote the safeguarding of all pupils in the

school.

B) Planning learning

4. Plan collaboratively, with other team

members, a rich and stimulating learning activities that achieve good progression

in pupils’ understanding by:

identifying clear learning

objectives and learning content, appropriate to the subject matter and the

pupils being taught setting exciting and intriguing

tasks for whole class learning, small group learning and self-initiated,

exploratory learning setting clear targets for pupils’

learning that build on prior attainment ensure that learning is

appropriately differentiated so that the learning is well pitched and all

pupils are challenged at their current level of understanding identifying pupils who:

o

have special educational needs

o

are high attainers

o

are not yet fluent in English.

5. Create a high quality,

rich, stimulating and enabling learning environment containing items that will

capture pupils’ attention and lead to independent exploration.

6. Make effective use of

assessment information on pupils’ attainment and progress when teaching and in

planning future learning.

7. Plan

opportunities to develop pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural

development.

C) Teaching and classroom management

8. Ensure effective teaching of home groups, and

of smaller groups and individuals within the whole-class setting, so that

learning objectives are met and pupils’ learning time is used efficiently.

9. Establish and maintain a purposeful learning

atmosphere.

10. Set high expectations for pupils’ behaviour,

establishing and maintaining a good standard of discipline through well

focused, engaging learning opportunities and through positive and productive

relationships.

11. Establish a safe, clean and secure learning

environment which promotes pupils’ confidence.

12. Be familiar with the Code of Practice on the

identification and assessment of special educational needs.

13. Use teaching methods that capture pupils’

interest and maintain their engagement through:

offering

rich, captivating learning activities setting the highest expectations

for all pupils clearly establishing a purpose

for learning and placing it within a context effective questioning that

includes open and closed questions, together with the use of probing,

supplementary questions providing frequent opportunities

for pupils to learn through talk and interaction stimulating intellectual

curiosity and communicating