Business Education Teacher

You are likely to hold an excellent honours degree or doctorate and must be passionate about motivating young people, inspiring academic and intellectual excellence, and great pastoral care. You must have proven successful experience in raising children's attainment in Business Education and have experience or an interest in teaching Accounting and or Economics. The role may involve teaching ICT to P7/S1.

You will have an enthusiastic "Can do, will do" attitude and will instil high standards, high expectations and the value of hard work in children, plus the belief that intelligence is not fixed and that abilities can be developed considerably through sensibly focused endeavour. 

The Business Education teacher will :

• Contribute passionately and significantly to the successful learning and teaching of Business Education, communicating enthusiasm in a way that engages and excites young people. 
• Employ a range of best practice teaching, learning and assessment strategies to inspire children with a love of Business Education and to ensure the highest attainment in exams
• Be fully aware of current issues in teaching Business Education and develop and maintain schemes of work
• Liaise with the Head of Department, undertaking responsibilities and tasks delegated by him
• Be confident in the use of ICT
• Play a full role in the pastoral and wider life of The Academy as a Tutor and as a participant or leader in co-curricular activities. Contributing to the ethos and activity of our school is important and the ability to contribute to coaching sport, or contribute to Outdoor Education, would be particularly welcome. Above all, we seek a lively and inspirational individual with a real passion for Business Education.  

You will care deeply about children's success and will be skilled at motivating children to work to their full potential. Strong commitment, good communication skills, diplomacy, dynamism, proactivity, teambuilding skills, and the very highest standards are key to this post. So are a calm and nurturing disposition, flexibility and being an improving presence. Above all, you will work very hard and effectively for the children in your care. 

The Department offers courses in Accounting, Business Management and Economics. As well as the Head of Department, who specialises in teaching, the department includes two other full-time members of staff. Business Management is a particularly popular choice from S3 through to S6, covering National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher. Furthermore, on average, in recent years, 15% of our leavers have gone on to study business-related degrees at university. 

Further information is available on our website at www.theglasgowacademy.org.uk Please look under Senior School >Academic subjects>Business Education.

Pastoral care, continuity of support/guidance from year to year, and individual knowledge and understanding of children are very important in our school, so all members of staff are expected to be a tutor looking after a tutor group of about 14/15 children that they see every morning throughout the children's time in Senior School. Along with their tutees, all teachers are members of one of our four Houses, taking part in House activities and duties. 

The appointment is for August 2025 and is a full-time permanent post.    

All teachers at The Academy must be registered with the General Teaching Council Scotland (GTCS).