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Lead Practitioner for English

Lead Practitioner for English

Ark Globe Academy

Southwark

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Salary:
Ark Leadership pay scale: L2-L6
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
01/09/2021
Apply by:
17 May 2021

Job overview

Reports to: Assistant Principal for Communications

Start date: 01 September 2021

Contract: Permanent 

Salary: Ark Leadership pay scale: L2-L6

This is a fantastic opportunity for an aspiring leader to develop their career with the support of an excellent leadership and strong school culture at Ark Globe Academy. The role is ideally suited for an exceptional practitioner who is committed to inspiring the next generation of young people in fulfilling their aspirations. 

The role of lead practitioner is critical to the continuing progress of the academy. It is essential to how we will achieve the highest standard of learning and teaching in every classroom. Lead practitioners are exemplary classroom practitioners who secure student outcomes for all and are able to teach students across key stages.

As part of the communications faculty, the lead practitioner will take a leading role in developing the classroom practice of teachers within the faculty. The lead practitioner will work with a particular cohort of teachers, for example, trainees and may also have a remit beyond the faculty. Lead practitioners carry out individual coaching, delivering inset or training, as required.

Key Responsibilities

• To develop and improve the practice of teachers so that inadequate teaching and teaching that requires improvement is eradicated

• Have an oversight of KS5 curriculum to ensure that it meets the needs of the students

• To observe your coachee and provide high quality, diagnostic feedback that enables rapid improvement

• To alter your coaching method/style depending on the teacher you are working with

• To analyse and deconstruct the teaching and provide strategies that will impact on the areas for improvement

• To motivate and inspire your coachee to want to be outstanding

• To plan and lead inset to staff in line with the requirements of the academy

• To evaluate and measure the impact of the inset and provide follow up sessions that is informed by the evaluation

• To carry out learning walks with staff and to measure consistency across the academy - you will then use this to inform further training for staff.

• To develop and support effecting planning for schemes of learning. 

Outcomes and Activities

Creativity 

• To experiment and innovate exciting and effective new teaching and learning strategies.

• To conduct relevant research related to new practice.

• To strategically plan the coaching programme for each coachee.

• Sustain outstanding practice in your own classroom by constantly reflecting and refining.

• To create new and exciting resources.

Teamwork 

• To model the outstanding practice and to be observed as necessary so that staff can develop their own understanding of what good or better learning looks like.

• To work collaboratively and creatively with the teaching and learning coaching team and SLT Lead.

• To seek out exceptional practice from other institutions so that we continually develop our practice.

• Use your learning to develop new and effective approaches to teaching and learning across the Academy.

• Deliver high quality training and inset sessions to new staff (all levels).

Disseminating best practice based on educational research

• Identifying educational research to enhance existing practices.

• Support teachers in creating positive behaviour management through good teaching.

• Co-ordinating the assessment and analysis of data and information and developing action planning.

• Co-ordinating the assessment strategies to address underachievement and reducing disaffection.

Teaching and Learning

• Work with the Assistant Principal to establish a subject development plan, target setting and review

• Teach outstanding lessons that motivate, inspire and improve pupil attainment

• Implement and adhere to the academies behaviour management policy, ensuring the health and well-being of pupils is maintained at all times

• Participate in preparing student for external examinations

• Keep abreast of any developments within their subject area

Curriculum Setting and Assessment

• Develop high quality syllabuses and schemes of learning for all students that are inspiring for learners and teachers 

• Work with the Assistant Principal to monitor and assess teaching and learning within the subject

• Set regular, measurable and significant assessments for the students

• Establish agreement for monitoring and evaluation of student progress

• Maintain accurate student data that can be used to make teaching more effective

• To ensure the regular setting and completion of high-quality home learning activities

Academy Culture

• Support the Academy’s culture, values and ethos by contributing to the development and implementation of policies practices

• Support and work in collaboration with colleagues and other professional in and beyond the school, covering lessons and providing other support as required

Other

• Undertake, and when required, deliver or be part of the appraisal system and relevant training and professional development

• To undertake any other responsibilities as directed by the Executive Principal and ALT members

• Commitment to equality of opportunity and the safeguarding and welfare of all pupils

• Willingness to undertake training

Role review

This job description sets out the main duties of the post at the time of drafting. It cannot be read as an exhaustive list. These responsibilities will be discussed annually as part of the post holder’s annual performance review and are subject to change. However, it may be altered at any time subject to need in consultation with the post holder subject to the Executive Principal’s approval.

Person Specification: Lead Practitioner for English

Qualification Criteria

• Qualified to degree level and above

• Qualified to teach and work in the UK

• Evidence of professional development

Experience

• Experience of raising attainment in a challenging classroom environment

• Experience of contributing to a high achieving department within a large secondary school environment

• Experience of delivering consistently outstanding lessons to students of all ages and abilities

• Experience of implementing behaviour management strategies consistently and effectively

• Experience of supporting students of all ages and abilities to make excellent progress and achieve impressive examination outcomes

• Experience of leading successful enrichment and extracurricular activities which inspire and motivate learners

• Experience of providing professional development to teachers, including coaching, mentoring and training

• Experience of designing and developing resources to support learning across different subject areas

• Experience of preparing and leading training sessions

• Evidence of continually improving the teaching and learning in their subject area though schemes of work, assessment and extra-curricular activities etc.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of the latest educational research, findings and best practices

• Excellent understanding of the OFSTED Framework and what constitutes effective teaching and learning

• Excellent knowledge of the National Curriculum for KS3, KS4 and ideally KS5 and a solid grounding in the assessment processes used to support planning and raise student attainment across these Key Stages

• Understanding of the strategies needed to establish consistently high aspirations and standards of results and behaviour.

Attached documents

About Ark Globe Academy

In 2008 Geoffrey Chaucer Secondary and Joseph Lancaster Primary school merged to join the Ark network as Ark Globe Academy. Ark Globe Academy is a mixed all through school with student age ranging from 3-18.

At Ark Globe Academy we have the highest aspirations for all our children to ensure they are prepared for university and inspired to be leaders in their community. We offer our students a first-class education based on high quality teaching and experiences outside of the classroom.

Our school was recognised by the Government in its Parliamentary Review as an example of good practice in education and students make excellent progress at KS4. All our sixth form students received a university offer with 73% of those being a top 3rd university.

Ark Globe Sixth Form is in the top 2% of all sixth forms in the country and has received the Sixth Form of the Year award at the Ark Education Summit 2019.

School Structure

Ark Globe Academy is divided into four small schools Elbrus, McKinley, Kilimanjaro and Everest, also each small school has a Dean. This ensures that personal relationships between pupils and staff develop quickly, and that a culture of excellent behaviour and shared social norms are easier to maintain.

Aims, Vision and Values

Supporting our mission is our Culture Pyramid. The pyramid sets out for students, staff and parents our purpose, our beliefs and our values. This helps to set expectations in our daily lives at Ark Globe Academy. Read more about our culture pyramid here.

Every child has the potential to succeed and there are no excuses not to achieve that success. We expect every Ark Globe Academy students to graduate from our academy with the qualifications, skills and confidence to achieve their ambitions and go on to higher education or their chosen career.

Curriculum

Our curriculum is intended to prepare students for university and to be leaders in their community.

The Ark Globe Curriculum encompasses the total experience of the student, covering a range of activities from what is learnt in the classroom to our expectations of how our students carry themselves, and make decisions, outside of it. For us, education is much more than a qualification; it is a way of being that results in an empowered young person who is able to secure a life of purpose and meaning.

We recognise that attending university is often key to this as, we believe, it provides young people with more choices. As such, the academic, pastoral and cultural curriculum has been designed to prepare students for university and to be leaders in their community. However, we also recognise that there are high quality alternatives to university, and we help students to secure these too. Whatever choice is made, we want it to be an informed one, where our students determine their own future. Read more about our curriculum here.

Our Mission: Preparing our students for university and to be leaders in their community

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ARKGlobeAcademy

Our website: https://arkglobe.org/

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