Teacher of Design Technology (Resistant Materials)
Wimbledon College
Wimbledon
- Expired
- Salary:
- Wimbledon College Payscale/UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1/9/2018
- Apply by:
- 20 May 2018
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated, innovative and well-qualified Teacher of Design and Technology who is passionate about their subject area; a team player who will thrive on collaboration and team work, who is committed to maintaining a consistently high standard of teaching and learning and looking for a new challenge within an exciting, innovative and supportive school.
The successful candidate will collaborate in the planning and delivery of D&T lessons across key stages 3 and 4 and must have teaching experience in resistant materials and a desire to gain skills and expertise in other design technology materials.
We are embracing the challenges presented by the new curriculum and, as such, the successful candidate should have knowledge of the new DT GCSE or willingness to learn before starting and an enthusiasm for new and evolving technologies
Join us and you will be part of an Art & Design department which works closely as a creative team. We believe in working collaboratively, sharing ideas and supporting each other to achieve great things as we further develop innovative teaching and learning strategies. You should be able to teach across the ability range for KS3 and KS4 and have a real interest in developing teaching and learning and sharing best practice.
Applications are welcome from both experienced and newly qualified teachers able to teach throughout the age and ability range.
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About Wimbledon College
Wimbledon College is a popular and oversubscribed school which prides itself on its exam results at both GCSE and A level. As a Jesuit school, our ethos can be summed up by St Ignatius Loyola’s vision for Jesuit schools as being “for improvement in living and learning for the greater glory of God and the common good.” Central to St Ignatius’ vision and to the College is the education of the whole person, providing each pupil with the opportunity to strive for excellence in all that they do.
Wimbledon College aims to create a caring and disciplined community in which pupils will feel secure and are motivated to be involved in their studies and in a wide range of school activities, to encourage pupils to recognise the best in themselves and to work hard to develop all of their talents, and to instil in its pupils an awareness of the needs of others and a commitment to putting their gifts and energies at the service of others.
Staff Development
At Wimbledon College, we believe that professional development is an essential and inherent part of your role regardless of the stage you are at in your career or the position you hold. This results in bespoke CPD journeys based on your current position and the trajectory you would like your career to go in. Every staff member is supported along that journey. Through a combination of internal and external CPD opportunities staff are able to develop their own skills and competencies and then have the opportunity to share those with colleagues from the College and across the borough.
We use a range of resources and strategies within and outside the College to achieve this:
· We have staff completing external leadership courses such as NPQs and Merton specific Leadership Courses
· We engage with a wide range of organisations, including UCL, Bluesky and PixL to support the delivery of our extensive professional development programme for both career progression and skills development tailored to individual needs
· We have a coaching programme to allow both teaching and non teaching staff to share best practice and offer career advice and guidance.
· We have in-school groups that work collaboratively on projects around a chosen topic such as promoting literacy across the curriculum
If you are starting your teaching career with us, we partner with Teach Wimbledon and Roehampton University to welcome both Schools’ Direct and PGCE students. We also have a comprehensive Early Career Teacher support system where you will receive an individual mentor, reduced timetable and opportunities to embed your learning.
We fully appreciate the importance of training for support staff and have a generous budget to ensure that external courses are available in addition to in school training for all interested support staff.
Our aim is to empower staff to ascertain their own professional needs, both within and around their role, and to provide whatever support they require to flourish.
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