Teacher of A-level/IB Physics 0.7 (maternity cover)
EF Academy Oxford
Oxfordshire
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- September 2019
- Apply by:
- 18 March 2019
Job overview
EF Academy Oxford
Faculty of Science
Teacher of A-level/IB Physics with Mathematics 0.7 (Maternity Cover)
JOB DESCRIPTION
Responsibilities
• Ensuring high quality teaching and student progress in A-level/IB Physics/Mathematics under the direction of the Head of Faculty
• Ensuring the teaching of engaging and effective lessons that motivate, inspire, and improve student attainment
• Ensuring that all lessons are well planned in accordance with EF Academy Oxford’s teaching and learning policy and that plans are both saved on the Academy network and available for monitoring in the classroom
• Ensuring that quality progression plans and schemes of work are developed, consistently implemented, and regularly reviewed
• Instigating on your own initiative effective intervention to help students
• Ensuring that students make very good or outstanding progress towards individual, Faculty, and Academy targets
• Ensuring that the required practical activities are completed to a high standard
• Ensuring that all students receive high quality formative feedback and that this is evident in marking
• Ensuring that subject-based intervention plans are implemented for under-achieving students
• Monitoring and evaluating the quality of teaching and learning
• Ensuring that subject reports provide appropriate regarding strengths, weaknesses, and strategies for improvement
• Promoting Physics/Mathematics-related academic/intellectual/cultural enrichment
• Contribution to the Academic Tutorial system and the extra-curricular life of the school (such as running a weekly activity)
• Contribution to the weekend activities programme once a term
Person Specification
Experience
• A successful teacher who has a strong impact on students’ progress
• Good knowledge of Physics/Mathematics and can communicate this in ways that fire students’ enthusiasm for the subject
• IB experience and experience of teaching ESL learners desirable but not essential
Teaching and Learning
• Effective and inspiring teacher who gives target-based and formative feedback
• Has high expectations of student progress in lessons and homework
• Has good subject knowledge, with a Physics/Mathematics-related degree from a recognised university
• Has good communication, planning, and organisational skills
• Has a good understanding of the use of data to raise attainment; techniques for differentiating learning; assessment for learning
• Enjoys collaborative teacher professionalism
• Establishes clear boundaries, sanctions, praise and rewards
Remuneration
Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Annual % performance-related pay awards. Lunches are free in term-time and EF has a stakeholder pension.
Applications
Applicants must be able to provide evidence of having the right to live and work in the UK and be prepared to undergo an enhanced DBS check. EF Academy Oxford is an equal opportunities employer.
Further details of the school can be found at: http://www.ef.com/academy/campuses/ http://efacademyblog.ef.com/blog/category/oxford-campus-news
Attached documents
About EF Academy Oxford
- EF Academy Oxford
- Cotuit Hall, Pullens Lane, Headington, Oxford
- Oxfordshire
- OX3 0DA
- United Kingdom
EF Academy is part of EF Education First, the world’s leading private education organisation. Founded in 1965, EF has helped more than three million students realise their ambitions of studying abroad. With more than 200 schools and offices around the world, EF has a truly global reach.
EF Academy Oxford, an international boarding school for students in their last two years of secondary school, aims to offer its pupils a superior education abroad, thorough preparation for university and access to a future that knows no borders. Our students maximize their potential through the IB Diploma or A-Level programme and a majority of them progress to university courses in the UK.
EF Academy presently operates in two UK locations, with the second school in Torbay; our school in Oxford will go into its eighth year of operation in September 2016 and currently has 200 students from 60 different countries. We understand the many difficulties overseas student may encounter studying abroad and we place great emphasis on our responsibility to support, guide and assist our students in adjusting to life in the UK. The majority of our students are housed in one of our purpose-built modern boarding houses whilst a few are housed with local families who have been visited and vetted by our staff.
EF's vision is to grow; because it is challenging, exciting, rewarding, and creates opportunities for everyone. Growth means not only an increase in size, but also in the quality of our programmes and the personal growth and development of EF's most important asset, our people, both professionally and personally.
EF's mission is to break down barriers of language, culture and geography.
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