English Language Teacher (IB Diploma English B & IELTS)

TEACHER OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE

JOB DESCRIPTION

Part-time (0.6), fixed-term contract (until December) with possibility of extension

Responsibilities

·        Ensuring high quality teaching and student progress in IB Diploma English B and IELTS under the direction of the Head of Language & Literature

·        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 academic 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 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 ESL-related academic/intellectual/cultural enrichment

Person Specification

Experience

A successful teacher who has a strong impact on students' progress

Experience of teaching English as a second language

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 a recognized teaching qualification

·        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

Hours: 0.6 over 5 days