Head of Humanities (History Specialist)

Head of Humanities (History Specialist)

Job details

Employer                     Nilai International School

Accountable to           Principal

Location                      Nilai, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Contract Type             Full Time

Contract Term            Two Year Renewable Contract

Job starts                    September 2022 / January 2023

Responsibilities and duties:

• To carry out the professional duties as reasonably requested by the Principal.
• To be a consistently ‘good’ and often ‘outstanding’ teacher who meets the relevant set of personal professional standards for a humanities teacher (history focused), and takes responsibility for personal professional development.
• To act as a role-model for students and other members of staff and represent the school in a manner consistent with its ethos and values.
• To ensure that all work with students underpins and promotes the school’s ethos and values.
• To promote and safeguard the welfare of all students

Specific Duties:

Have knowledge and understanding of:

• The school’s mission statement, aims, priorities, and targets.
• Any statutory curriculum requirements for humanities (history focused) and the requirements for assessment, recording and reporting of students’ attainment and progress.
• The characteristics of high quality teaching and the main strategies for improving and sustaining high standards of teaching, learning and achievement for all students.
• New subject-specific pedagogies and research, and their potential impact.

Planning & target-setting

• Set high expectations and targets for students in every group taught based on the data provided.
• Contribute to and follow the short, medium and long term plans for teaching and learning to promote progress as a humanities teacher (history focused).
• Contribute to whole-school aims, policies and practices including those in relation to safeguarding, behavior, bullying and racial harassment.

Teaching & Managing Student Learning

• Ensure that registration and class registers are marked punctually and accurately and are kept up to date as required by law and effective safeguarding procedures.
• Monitor attendance and punctuality of groups of students and individuals and take appropriate action to address any issues.
• Highlight positive performance and recognize and reward it appropriately.
• Utilize appropriate behavior management strategies and adhere to the whole school Behavior for Learning policy and procedures.
• Ensure the progress of every student within each lesson, across sequences of lessons and throughout modules/schemes of work.
• Utilize a range of appropriate teaching strategies to ensure that lessons have pace and variety.
• Ensure that teaching reflects the diversity of backgrounds of students and promotes mutual respect.
• Ensure that teaching caters for the full range of learning styles of student.
• Ensure that assessment and attainment data informs teaching and that students understand how to improve and make progress.
• Ensure effective development of students’ literacy, numeracy and information technology skills through the subject.

Assessment & Evaluation

• Adhere to the whole school system for recording and reporting individual student performance ensuring compliance with all deadlines.
• Establish clear targets for students’ achievement, and evaluate attainment and progress for all students.
• Use data effectively to identify individual students and student groups who are underachieving and, where necessary, create and implement effective plans of action to support these students.
• Contribute to regular curriculum review to help maintain a relevant, stimulating and innovative curriculum provision.
• Participate in lesson observations and other measures to monitor the delivery of learning outcomes and quality of teaching and implement measures to address any improvement issues identified.

Working with staff & other adults

• Attend all meetings as requested.
• Establish clear and constructive working relationships with other staff in the team.
• Establish good working relationships and practices, focused on maximizing progress, with allocated teaching assistants (if relevant).
• Establish a partnership with parents to involve them in their child’s learning of the subject, as well as providing information about curriculum, attainment, progress and targets as required.

General

• Oversee the development and organization of any relevant extra-curricular activities and visits which extend learning beyond the classroom
• Contribute to the school’s co-curricular activities after lessons have finished
• Be open to the possibilities of outreach work.
• Any other appropriate and reasonable activity as may be directed from time to time by the Principal.

We offer attractive remuneration package including health insurance, expatriate allowances and return flights at the end of the contract.

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

All applications will be treated with the strictest of confidence.