English Teacher
Ark Acton Academy
Ealing
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competetive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Immediate start
- Apply by:
- 23 February 2019
Job overview
Ark Acton has recently joined the network of ARK Schools and is dedicated to supporting the education of all students.
We are recruiting for an outstanding English Teacher to join our school. The English Teacher will be responsible for planning and delivering the highest-quality lessons and achieving excellent results for their students, instilling in them a love for the subject and a desire to learn.
The successful candidate will deliver outstanding teaching and learning and achieve excellent results for students.
We offer you the best training and support at every stage of your career. You will receive regular coaching sessions, timetabled CPD each week, as well as staff collaboration across the network.
As a teacher at Ark Acton, you will be part of Ark, an international charity and one of the UK's most successful multi academy trusts, with a network of 39 schools in 4 locations across the country. Benefits of being part of the Ark network include:
• A salary higher than the main scale teacher salaries
• Twice as many training days as standard and network-wide events with Ark colleagues, held by the best minds in education.
If you would like to discuss the role, please contact Ruth MacMurray.
HR Administrator on 02031102400
Location
Ark Acton Academy
Salary From
Competitive
Job Description: English Teacher
Reports to: Head of Department
Start date: January/Spring/Autumn Term
Location: ARK Acton Academy
Contract: Permanent
Salary:Commensurate with the post / dependent on qualifications and experience
The Role
As a teacher in Ark Acton Academy, you will be instrumental in our mission to provide every student, regardless of their background, a great education and real choices in life. You will deliver high-quality, rigorous lessons that drive achievement and inspire a love of learning that extends beyond the classroom.
Key Responsibilities
• Set high expectations so that all students are inspired, motivated and challenged to reach their full potential, and in doing so meet their progress and attainment targets
• Plan and teach well-structured, differentiated lessons that are aligned to the agreed curriculum and cultivate every student’s intellectual curiosity
• Use data to inform teaching and learning, identify areas for intervention and provide feedback to students, staff and families in order to promote progress and outcomes
• Manage behaviour effectively to create a safe, respectful and nurturing environment so that students can focus on learning
• Work collaboratively with both school and network colleagues as a committed team member, building successful, high performing teams
• Participate actively throughout the network, by attending relevant meetings, and, as appropriate, delivering network-wide training and initiatives
• Work with colleagues, students and families to develop a strong school community
Other
• Carry out other reasonable tasks as directed by the Head of Department or Principal
Note: Exceptional candidates may be considered for additional responsibilities.
Person Specification: English Teacher
Qualification Criteria
• Qualified to teach and work in the UK
• Degree in English
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
• Demonstrable commitment to raising attainment of all pupils in a challenging classroom environment
• Excellent understanding of both subject and general teaching pedagogy
• Be or demonstrate the potential to become an outstanding teacher
• Mastery of and enthusiasm for English
• Effective and systematic behaviour management
• Knowledge of the national secondary education system, examinations and curriculum
Personal Characteristics
• Genuine passion for and a belief in the potential of every student
• Deep commitment to Ark’s mission of providing an excellent education to every student, regardless of background
• Excellent interpersonal, planning and organisational skills
• Resilient, motivated and committed to achieving excellence
• Reflective and proactive in seeking feedback to constantly improve practice
• Commitment to regular and on-going professional development and training to establish outstanding classroom practice
• Commitment to and understanding of professionalism in line with the National Teaching Standards
Other
• Commitment to equality of opportunity and the safeguarding and welfare of all pupils
• Willingness to undertake training
• This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check
Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in our academies. In order to meet this responsibility, we follow a rigorous selection process. This process is outlined here, but can be provided in more detail if requested. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
About Ark Acton Academy
At Ark Acton Academy we believe that every child, regardless of background or prior achievement, can be successful if given great teaching and pastoral support. Our mission is to create a school of the highest standard that achieves this through recruiting and training excellent teachers and support staff, and by developing a pastoral system that ensures no child is left behind.
Our mastery curriculum is at the heart of school life and ensures that all students get the opportunity to study academic disciplines and to wrestle with ways of thinking that take them beyond everyday understandings. Alongside this we invest heavily in staff training and development to ensure that every student is taught by a subject expert who is passionate about their subject and its importance to understanding the world around us.
Whilst we want all our students to leave Ark Acton Academy with the currency they need to access the next stage of their education and to have an unrelenting focus on hard work and discipline, we know that getting great exam results is only half of a good education: we are determined to deliver as many opportunities as we can for every child to flourish outside the classroom. We want our students to be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with a child from a private school and compete for the same university place or job.
As part of Ark Schools, we have access to world class staff training and development, as well as expertise from across the network. Being part of a family of schools ensures that we can keep learning and evaluating our impact to ensure that every child who comes to Ark Acton leaves as a well-rounded and polite individual with the drive and resources to lead a happy and successful life.
Why work at Ark Acton Academy
At Ark Acton we have stripped away anything we feel gets in the way of being a great teacher so that we can focus on the main thing. This includes:
- Feedback policies that sit at department level and do not require slavish marking of books
- No graded lesson observations or spurious judgements
- No report writing
- No parent’s evenings
- Only 2 data points a year
- No ½ termly data metrics to track progress
- Protected Department meeting time built into the timetable and staff loadings
- Protected curriculum planning time built into the timetable and staff loadings
- A constant SLT presence to maintain our calm, scholarly atmosphere
- A binary behaviour system that enables disruption-free teaching.
Our curriculum
Our purpose as a school is to ensure our young people can go out into the world and live a life of choice and opportunity. We want them to leave Ark Acton having been inducted into systems of worthwhile knowledge that enable them to participate in and shape the national discourse.
In order to achieve this vision for our young people, we place the curriculum at the heart of school life. It drives all other decisions that we make and is the best means we have of demonstrating as a school what we believe in and what we stand for. In essence our curriculum is designed to ensure that all pupils at Acton acquire disciplinary knowledge that they cannot learn at home and that this specified curriculum knowledge is based on the most coherent and tested ways of conceptualising the world that we have.
Alongside our taught academic curriculum we run our co-curricular programme. This programme provides experiences and opportunities for all students to participate in individual and group activities that help them develop essential life skills. Debating and oracy sits at the heart of this model as we aim to enable all our students to develop confidence, articulacy and team-working skills.
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