Lead Teacher of Geography
King Solomon Academy
King Solomon Academy
- Expired
- Salary:
- Ark MPS/UPS (Inner London): £32,960 - £52,976 dependent on experience, plus TLR 2a (£2,873)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/09/2021
- Apply by:
- 21 May 2021
Job overview
Develop as an exceptional Geography Teacher at King Solomon Academy
We are looking for an individual with a genuine passion for teaching Geography at King Solomon Academy and a belief in the potential of every child and that through hard work all pupils can access and benefit from a university education.
KSA is a pioneering school looking to hire exceptional people. This is a unique opportunity for an ambitious and high-performing teacher who is committed to pushing themselves further and achieving amazing things with and for their pupils. We believe in high expectations and a sense of collaborative and positive enthusiasm which brings out the best in our team. Through weekly coaching and time allocated to professional development, we can help our teachers excel in creating a successful environment for our pupils.
At King Solomon Academy, all pupils study Humanities as a discrete subject in Key Stage 3. We benefit from the vision and planning of the Ark Geography Mastery programme in Key Stage 3, a backwards planned curriculum which drives strong progress and encourages our students to think like geographers. In Key Stage 4 Geography is a popular Options subject, studied by approximately 70% of the current Year 10 cohort.
In September 2021, we hope to offer Geography A Level for the first time in a number of years and look set to have a substantial and motivated A Level cohort. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to contribute to the teaching of Geography in GCSE and A-level, and to contribute to the planning of a rigorous curriculum at A Level which provides our students with the tools to be successful at university and beyond. This is a unique opportunity for a candidate who is ready to shape the A Level Geography curriculum from the ground up. The ideal candidate will have prior experience of planning and delivering A Level Geography, but we welcome applicants at all stages of their career.
To apply, and to see more information about the school and this role please visit http://kingsolomonacademy.org/current-vacancies. The deadline is 11am on Friday 21st May 2021. To discuss the role, please feel free to email the Principal’s PA, Shaheen Riaz (s.riaz@kingsolomonacademy.org) or phone on 02075636901.
Job Description: Lead Teacher of Geography
Reports to: Relevant member of the Senior Leadership Team
Start date: September 2021
Salary: Ark MPS/UPS (Inner London): £32,960 - £52,976 dependent on experience, plus TLR 2a (£2,873)
The Role
To provide outstanding leadership, teaching and learning of Geography to ensure high attainment of their students.
Key responsibilities
• Build on the current Geography curriculum to extend and develop it further
• Devise and implement school wide standard based assessment programme for subject area
• Maintain regular communication and collaboration with their Ark subject network
• Model a nurturing and structured classroom and school environment that helps pupils to develop as learners
• Model excellent pupil discipline and culture inside their classroom and across the whole academy
• Contribute to the effective working of the academy
• Be held accountable for all curriculum direction, teaching quality, and pupil attainment in their subject area
• Provide a nurturing classroom and school environment that helps students to develop as learners
• Helping to maintain/establish discipline across the whole academy
• Contribute to the effective working of the Academy
Outcomes and activities
Subject Leadership
• To create and develop challenging and innovative schemes of work which are inspiring for learners and teachers alike.
• Use regular, measurable and significant assessments to monitor progress and set targets
• Produce periodic assessments with marks schemes
• Ensure assessments are moderated internally
• Ensure end of year assessments reflect each pupil’s overall level which is both externally valid and provides an accurate baseline for the next academic year
• Analyse progress and attainment data to make data-driven changes to curriculum design, and pupil interventions
• Work in collaboration with classroom teachers and SENDCO to ensure pupils receive high quality interventions
• Through observation and feedback, coach subject teachers to ensure excellent teaching and learning in all lessons, ensuring that classroom teachers are utilising best pedagogical practice
• To develop an exciting and motivating extra-curricular and enrichment offer including university links, trips and residentials
Teaching and Learning
• Meticulously plan and teach engaging and challenging lessons that pave the way for success in school and life
• Meet the needs of all learners by consistently planning and teaching carefully differentiated lessons
• Set and mark appropriate homework
• Use regular, measurable and significant assessments of their teaching
• Complete all reporting on time
• Closely monitor progress and attainment of their pupils and use it to inform their teaching
• Provide content for and where necessary deliver high quality pupil interventions with direction from SENDCO and Head of Department
• Ensure that all pupils achieve academy targets
• Maintain regular and productive communication with parents about their child’s progress, behaviour and development, including attending after school parent meetings as required
• Organize and participate in exciting and motivating trips and events
• Answer “homework help” phone calls from pupils until 8.30pm as required
Academy Culture
• Help create a strong academy community, characterised by consistent, orderly, caring and respectful relationships
• Help develop a small school culture and ethos that is utterly committed to achievement
• Form teacher (teachers will usually be required to perform the role of form teacher):
• Create and sustain a positive class culture
• Care for each pupil as an individual and ensure that they succeed academically and develop emotionally and socially
• Hold each pupil to account in every aspect of their school life by maintaining frequent phone/email contact with parents
• Write form teacher comments in reports
Person Specification: Lead Teacher of Geography
Qualification criteria
• Qualified to degree level and above
• Qualified to teach in the UK
• Right to work in the UK
Experience
• Experience of raising attainment in a leadership role in a challenging school
• Evidence of continually improving the teaching and learning of their subject though schemes coaching or staff
• Evidence of leading and/or teaching KS5 is desirable
Skills and attributes
Skills and attributes
We are looking for alignment to our KSA values or at the very least, a candidate’s clear, demonstrable capacity to develop them:
About King Solomon Academy
King Solomon Academy is an all-through school for 3 - 18 year olds in Lisson Grove.
Pupils and their immense potential are at the heart of the academy. They live and work by the philosophy that there are no excuses and no short cuts to success, and promote excellence in every aspect of academy life.
Aims, Vision and Values
Our mission is to provide our pupils with a rigorous and transformational education which prepares them for success at university and beyond. We ensure that every pupil achieves academic success and has the real option of going to university. We want to make university education something which is accessible, exciting and aspirational. We believe our pupils work hard towards this goal because we make it real for them. We name our classes after well-known university cities and we name each year group by the year in which they will graduate from sixth form. We run residential trips to universities to open their eyes to the opportunties that university study can deliver.
In order to make our dreams for our pupils a reality, we foster values and approaches that transform the lives of our pupils. At the heart of our approach is that we are an all-through school with a thriving nursery provision. We believe in investing in knowing our pupils and their families extremely well, and we prioritise our pupils making extraordinary progress in the early years of their education. This sense of long-term commitment is core to our approach.
We have high expectations for all of our pupils, and believe that with great teaching and a lot of love and care, every child here can fulfil their potential.This both warm and strict approach means pupils feel safe and secure in the school but also confident to contribute to the future of the school and their community.
Long term, we aim to play our part in removing the educational disadvantage currently experienced by those born into economic deprivation our country. We strive to create role models and leaders in our community and through them to create a safer, fairer, and happier society.
Our vision
High expectations We are climbing the mountain to university
Excellent teaching We love teaching and learning and place it at the heart of all our work.
A rigorous and transformational curriculum Our all-through curriculum is carefully designed and implemented to ensure that our pupils have a journey from nursery to university
Exemplary Character Our focus on high quality relationships creates a powerful culture which ensures that our pupils develop exemplary behaviour and character.
A long-term commitment to every pupil As one of a handful of all-through schools with consistent cohorts of children across primary and secondary, we are able to develop a unique team and family orientated culture which ensures that each of our pupils and families are known and cared for as individuals.
Investment in our team We choose to work at KSA because we know we will work together to address educational inequality.
Efficient and effective organisation We carefully organise the operational and educational activities in our school to maximise our collective impact and make our work sustainable.
Specialisms
Like all Ark academies, King Solomon Academy has a maths specialism. Proficiency in maths is essential in every sphere of adult life, so we invest in the resources to attract and train the best maths teachers. We aim to produce confident and proficient mathematicians. We will ensure that pupils acquire skills as early as possible. We will help every student to maximise their skills and qualifications and offer those with particular ability the chance to accelerate their achievement in maths and further maths.
King Solomon Academy is a music specialist school. We chose music as a specialism because it is fun and inspiring and can involve every pupil. We believe that being part of the KSA orchestra will create a great sense of shared identity as well enabling our pupils to benefit from the known academic, intellectual and social advantages of musical training.
Ofsted
King Solomon Academy was inspected by Ofsted in May 2013 and was graded as "outstanding" in all areas. You can read the full report here.
Among the points highlighted by the Inspectors in the academy's first full inspection report since opening, they say:
“King Solomon Academy is an outstanding and unique 21st century school". Among many other points Ofsted praise KSA's creation and inspiration of "a community of enthusiastic learners, who are passionate about achieving academic excellence."
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