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Lead Practitioner - Geography

Lead Practitioner - Geography

Lodge Park Academy

Corby

Salary:
Lead Practitioner Salary Scale
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2018
Apply by:
21 March 2018

Job overview

The David Ross Education Trust is now recruiting for a Lead Practitioner - Geography. This role at Lodge Park Academy could be the ideal next step in your career.

If you are ambitious, inspirational, creative, open-minded, and want to be part of our success then we want to hear from you. See what it means to be part of the David Ross Education trust from our children and parents here.

Providing our young people access to a world-class education and enrichment experiences is what drives us. Our students benefit from a wealth of opportunities to develop, learn and lead. From the classroom, to cultural visits, sports, music and arts and engaging with our local communities, the rich and varied experiences we create help fuel ambition and unlock potential. The education and experiences equips our young people with the leadership skills, team spirit, resilience and confidence to become outstanding citizens.

We work alongside outstanding organisations and individuals who are happy to share their expertise and skills in supporting the Trust’s vision, to give children better life chances through access to the best education and support we can give them.

About the role

We are looking for an outstanding Geography teacher to provide both excellent teaching and potentially to lead on aspects of the developing Geography department. A Lead Practitioner would be a consistently good or an outstanding teacher, with the results to prove it, who is ambitious and highly motivated to lead others. The Lead Practitioner will do everything possible to raise the quality of teaching and learning in Geography and throughout the Academy.

Fulltime teaching role, permanent

Salary & Benefits

· Lead Practitioner Salary Scale

· Access to Teachers’ Pension Scheme

Who we are looking for

· Degree or equivalent 

· Qualified Teacher Status 

· A sound academic background in Geography 

· Exemplary, outstanding practitioner 

· Excellent classroom practitioner 

· Good communication and effective team member and leader

· National Curriculum and GCSE syllabus 

· Excellent knowledge of classroom skills and Teacher Standards 

· Excellent understanding of the Ofsted framework and what constitutes effective teaching and learning 

· Contemporary pedagogy 

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

· Familiar with recent developments in the teaching and learning of the subject including strategies for raising achievement 

· Experienced in using a range of teaching and learning styles 

· Able to use assessment data to improve achievement 

· Equal opportunities 

· Able to use ICT across the curriculum and for administrative purposes 

· Understand how the National Curriculum applies to all students 

· Accepting of how the Academy Specialisms can be incorporated into the subject

About The David Ross Education Trust

The David Ross Education Trust (DRET) has grown to a network of 34 academies, incorporating primary, secondary and grammar, and special schools. We employ over 2000 people with the primary focus of raising the standards of education for 13,000 young people. Whatever your role, you should know you are contributing to achieving our vision of inspiring the next generation of young people to be the best they can in whatever they choose. Our aim is to be the country’s leading academy chain, committed to delivering the highest educational standards alongside an unrivalled package of sporting and cultural enrichment, including events such as the DRET Spring, Summer and Winter Cups, Music Cup, volunteering trips abroad, and regular trips/visits throughout the year.

We are incredibly lucky to be able to work alongside outstanding organisations and individuals who are happy to share their expertise and skills in supporting the David Ross Foundation's vision to give children better life chances through access to the best education and support we can give them.

While each academy is unique, we share common goals, aspirations, values and methods that enable us to work collaboratively and collectively to achieve our mission. We operate regional hubs, whereby academies work with other schools who are part of the Trust so we can share skills and knowledge, allowing them to benefit and learn from each other. We offer high quality programmes for CPD and Leadership Development delivered through our Teaching School Alliance to support our practitioners to deliver high quality teaching and learning across our academies.

Apply now

Please submit your application by visiting our website.

Lodge Park Academy is committed to equality, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.

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About Lodge Park Academy

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Lodge Park is an 11-18 comprehensive academy, based in the town of Corby with nearly 900 students on roll. In January 2019 the academy was judged as requiring special measures by Ofsted. The new leadership team, with support from the David Ross Education Trust have drawn up rigorous plans to ensure rapid progress is made to improve the quality of education for all pupils. 

Lodge Park is therefore seeking to recruit teachers who will have high expectations of all pupils and will work relentlessly to secure improved outcomes and life chances for the young people in our community. Driving this improvement is a commitment from academy leaders that teachers are the experts in their subject and they should be enabled to teach well planned units of the curriculum, ensuring students acquire knowledge; without the distraction of unnecessary workload, excessive observation and scrutiny or low value administrative tasks. 

Leaders are committed to the “Principles of Direct Instruction” to deliver a knowledge based curriculum and we are seeking teachers who are looking to continue their professional development through an evidenced based approach to learning. The academy has a warm-strict approach to discipline and high expectations of pupils are now supported through a consistent and robust consequence system which is designed so teachers can concentrate on teaching and pupils can concentrate on learning.

The town of Corby in situated in the North of the county and is close to the market towns of Stamford, Uppingham, Oakham and Market Harborough. There are good transport links to the South East and the city of Leicester is only a 35 minute drive. 

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