Teacher of Art & Design (Maternity Cover)
School 21
Newham
- Expiring soon
- Salary:
- Inner London (competitive based on skills and experience)
- Job type:
- Part Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 7 May 2024
Job overview
Apply by: Tuesday, 7th May 2024 by 8am
Interview: Latest would be week beginning 13th or 20th May 2024
Job start: September 2024
Salary: Inner London (competitive based on skills and experience)
Location: Stratford, London - Newham
Contract type: 9-month maternity cover, Part-time (0.6 PTE - 3-days per week), subject to an
enhanced DBS check
Early application is encouraged as we are hoping to interview and appoint as soon as possible.
School 21 reserves the right to close applications early and make an appointment at any stage.
This is an exciting time to be joining one of the most pioneering schools in the country. We are looking for an excellent art and design teacher who is passionate about their subject area and ready to develop their practice in a dynamic and innovative teaching environment. Ideally, the candidate would have a well-developed skill set within fine art with confidence teaching in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional media. We are particularly interested in teachers with a specialism in 3D design/sculpture and/or digital media. This role will involve teaching at secondary level up to sixth form and therefore must have experience of teaching at Key Stage 4 and 5. We currently follow the AQA qualification in Art & Design at GCSE and A-level.
We believe the teaching of art and design should support students to think independently and to develop their own creative confidence as a means to making a difference to the world. Creating beautiful and expressive work is a key feature of School 21 as a whole and therefore we are looking for a highly collaborative individual who is passionate about spreading the use of arts or design-led approaches across the curriculum.
Art and Design is a popular subject throughout the whole school, so we are looking for a
confident teacher, who will join a team of highly dedicated art and design teachers, who are keen to share experiences and collaborate. You can find out more about the department at:
School 21 is a very special and different kind of place to work in. All of us are striving to become pioneers (rethinking key aspects of education practice), multipliers (growing others and building teams), craftspeople (who think deeply about their practice) and people with integrity and humanity (driven by a strong sense of values and purpose). This is what we are looking for in new members of staff. We empower staff to find their voice and their creativity. We offer collaboration and learning across ages and subjects. We believe strongly in developing the full potential of all staff.
Since we opened in 2012 we have put learning and teaching at the heart of everything we do.
We have developed a unique approach to oracy including setting up a charity, Voice 21
(https://www.voice21.org/) which is already working with several hundred schools. We have also pioneered real world, interdisciplinary learning in collaboration with a network of extraordinary organisations: creative, artistic, high tech, professional.
The successful candidate will be:
- An excellent teacher and subject specialist able to plan and teach high quality art and design lessons to pupils at secondary and sixth form level with experience of teaching qualifications
- Experience in working in 2D and 3D with a specialism in 3D design/sculpture and/or digital media
- Skilled at fostering independent, student-led learning
- A creative and deep thinker about pedagogy
- Innovative in using new technology to enhance learning
- A collaborative planner, able to work across subject disciplines
- Interested in the growth of every child – head, heart and hand
Attached documents
About School 21
About School 21
School 21 is a pioneering 4 to 18 school in Stratford, East London, for girls and boys and children from all starting points and backgrounds. We are looking for the next cohort of teachers who want to continue to shape the school so that it stays at the forefront of innovation in education.
School 21 is a very special and different kind of place to work in. We empower staff to find their voice and their creativity. We offer collaboration and learning across ages and subjects. All staff have tailored programmes of professional development which results in extraordinary outcomes for the students. We offer multiple routes for progression through subjects and pedagogies. We believe strongly in developing the full potential of all staff.
The mission of School 21 is to empower young people to take on the world. Through a rich curriculum of ‘head’, ‘heart’ and ‘hand’ we want children knowing a lot, understanding themselves and making things happen. Our ‘dialogic approach’ to teaching helps children learn through talk and learn to talk and give everyone a voice.
We think schools should be places where children craft stunning work with real products, for real audiences and as a result of real teacher collaboration. Over the past few years our students have created immersive theatre productions depicting the French and Russian revolutions, built mechanical toys bursting with scientific craft. They have spoken out about human rights, ran campaigns to improve the biodiversity of Stratford and charted local history through photographs and poetry. Student work has been critiqued by directors and historians, professors and artists. All work is displayed, celebrated and challenged at termly Exhibitions of Beautiful Work where children tell us their stories of learning, drawing on their deep wells of oracy and well-being.
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