Head of Maths

Duties and responsibilities

Working with the Assistant Headteacher

• Ensure clear expectations of student achievement and progress, through effective target setting and monitoring against national benchmark data.

• Help to build, communicate, and implement a shared vision within the subject team.

• By personal example and practice, establish clear expectations and standards for both staff and students in line with the team’s and School’s policies.

• Establish a positive and vibrant subject identity, focused upon high expectations and positive attitudes.

• Develop Maths SoW and resources for KS2, KS3 and KS4, including differentiation to meet the needs of all students.

• Develop termly assessments with marking criteria and model answers

• To lead moderation and standardisation of marking across the school to ensure accuracy of data.

• Contribute to Departmental meetings and Parent Evenings as required.

• Support the performance management of staff within the subject, in relation to their role as a subject teacher and tutor.

• Assist with the implementation of school polices, practices and protocols to ensure consistency within the subject.

• Ensure that the subject’s physical environment promotes high expectations and celebrates learning and achievement.

• Make a positive contribution to the development of school strategies that impact on teaching, learning, achievement, staff development and student welfare.

Staff management

Working with the Assistant Headteacher Curriculum:

• Encourage, facilitate, and focus the subject’s attention upon developing and maintaining a high standard of teaching and learning.

• Establish clear and positive expectations and routines of teachers within the subject team.

• Keep the subject informed of curriculum and pedagogical developments, at a local and national level.

• Monitor and evaluate the practice across the subject to celebrate good practice and ensure consistency.

• Monitor and evaluate assessment data across Maths.

• Plan and implement intervention strategies to improve student achievement.

• Evaluate and report on the effectiveness of intervention strategies.

• Support the professional development of staff within the subject team, through performance management, professional development, coaching, sharing good practice.

• Ensure that the subject has ownership and understanding of whole school and specific subject policies.

• Support teachers in matters of discipline and the maintenance of standards.

Leading, developing and enhancing the teaching of others

Working with other relevant teachers in the curriculum:

• Maintain personal expertise in your subject and management and share this with other teachers.

• Act as a role model of good classroom practice for other teachers, modelling effective strategies with them.

• Monitor and evaluate standards of teaching, identifying areas for improvement.

• Plan and implement strategies to improve teaching where needs are identified.

• Induct, support and monitor new subject staff within your specialism and subject leaders within the curriculum.

• Act as a performance management team leader for identified teachers.

• Ensure that performance management arrangements are effectively discharged by other subject leaders within the curriculum area.

• Identify staff development needs and co-ordinate these with Assistant Headteacher.

• Plan the deployment of staff expertise to achieve school improvement objectives.

Support for pupils

• Supervise and provide support for pupils, ensuring their safety and access to learning.

• Assist with the development and implementation of Individual Education/Behaviour Plans and Personal Care programmes.

• Establish constructive relationships with pupils and interact with them according to individual needs.

• Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all pupils.

• Encourage pupils to interact with others and engage in activities led by the teacher.

• Set challenging and demanding expectations and promote self-esteem and independence.

• Ensure that students are appropriately taught and prepared for external exams across all key stages.

• Ensure appropriate transition activities are implemented to maintain student pace of learning at points of transition.

• Ensure effective liaison with teachers to support student “catch up”, intervention and help the removal of barriers to learning and progress.

• Monitor and evaluate the progress of students within the subject(s) against their potential using national benchmark data.

• Support teachers to ensure they have access to monitoring data affecting students’ progress e.g. attendance, punctuality, behaviour, achievement.

• Coordinate, promote and celebrate activities / events that encourage and recognise achievement.

• Ensure that the agreed code of discipline is clear to both teachers and students and that it is fairly and consistently applied.

• Provide students with opportunities to feedback on developments and progress.

Communication with Parents

• Establish effective, high-quality communication between the subject teachers and parents.

• Ensure that parents are informed of issues affecting the progress of their child within the subject.

• Oversee and quality assure the reporting of progress to parents from the subject.

• Support the “catch-up” of students who may have extended periods of absence. 

Oversee administrative arrangements affecting student progress

• Reporting and formal parent consultation.

• Attendance and punctuality, with the support of the Tutor.

• Achievement data and completion by set deadlines.

• Behaviour and rewards.

• Achievement events and activities.

• Reporting and recording incidents.

• Reporting subject achievement to students and parents via social media, website and the termly newsletter.

• Transition of new students.

Support for the School

• Be aware of and comply with school policies and procedures, specifically those relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person.

• Be aware of and support difference and ensure all pupils have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop.

• Contribute to the overall ethos, work and aims of the school.

• Appreciate and support the role of other professionals.

• Attend and participate in relevant meetings both during and after the school day as required.

• Participate in training and other learning activities and performance development as required.

• Assist with the supervision of pupils out of lesson times, including before and after school and at lunchtime.

• Accompany teaching staff and pupils on visits, trips and out of school activities as required and take responsibility for a group under the supervision of the teacher.

• To undertake such other duties that may be required to meet the needs of the school.