Teacher of Performing Arts

 Our opportunity for you

The Academy’s Performing Arts Department is highly successful – its academic results are excellent and community work outstanding. We have recently been in receipt of Arts Council funding, which has provided students with the opportunity to produce and launch the yearly Tamworth Festival. In addition, our talented students perform in regular productions for the public – recent events have included: ‘A Night at the Cabaret’ and ‘Imagination’ (a re-imaging of Roald Dahl’s novels).

Students at the Sixth Form study towards a BTEC Level 3 National in Performing Arts (either Dance or Acting) and often continue to sharpen their performance skills and study at university or vocational schools.

Do you want to work with resilient, eager students aged 11 to 19? Are you able to help young people develop academic and personal skills swiftly? Would you value the opportunity to work in a modern, vibrant town with a historic heart? If the answer is Yes, a position of employment at Tamworth Sixth Form/Landau Forte Academy QEMS is for you.

Key information

· Hours: 40.75

· Weeks: 52

· Contract: Full time, temporary position

· Start date: August 2017, or possibly sooner

· Salary: Dependent upon experience

· Closing Date: 28 April 2017 at midday

Person specification

· A graduate with qualified teacher status

· A well-qualified teacher in Performing Arts, with a strong teaching record or an outstanding newly or recently qualified teacher

· Relevant qualifications (both formal and through appropriate experience) to meet the challenge of the appointment

· Excellent in-depth knowledge of the place of Performing Arts in the development of young people and of the place of Performing Arts within the wider curriculum

· An interest in the latest developments in Performing Arts teaching

· Excellent relationships with students and parents

· Willingness to explore innovative and dynamic methods for teaching and learning

· High levels of enthusiasm, ambition, energy, resilience and determination

· Competent in the use of ICT both as an administrative tool and in teaching and learning.

Job description

· Ensure that teaching, learning and assessment meets the needs of learners, impacting positively upon student attainment and achievement; that it fulfils as appropriate the demands and requirements of the published Academy curriculum maps, tutor guides and student guides, and external examination syllabuses.

· Provide overall direction for student learning within your remit, ensuring that provision is made for students of all abilities, that they are effectively taught and that learning and achievement are evident. Work with other staff in contributing to the total learning of students including extension and enrichment activities.

· Follow the principles of the Academy's curriculum planning and development framework in preparing, delivering and developing, with others (staff and partners from industry and commerce), aspects of the curriculum.

· Set and maintain high standards, expectations and aspirations for both staff and students, ensuring that they are treated with dignity and respect and that they receive appropriate guidance, support and recognition.

· Ensure the preparation, planning and delivery of the agreed Performing Arts Department’s learning programmes, utilising flexible approaches to learning including the application of online learning.

· Ensure that appropriate, challenging attainment targets are set and used with all students and monitor their performance in terms of attainment, achievement (both quantifiable value added measures and broader qualitative achievements) and progress in respect of the outcomes from learning programmes and activities.

· Evaluate classes’ levels of attainment and achievement against both Academy targets and nationally recognised benchmarks.

· Monitor the quality and effectiveness of Assessment of Learning and Assessment for Learning, ensuring that the marking, assessment, recording and reporting processes are both effective and compliant with Academy policies.

· Ensure that Academy policies in relation to effective learning, student rewards and managing behaviour are successfully implemented to ensure that curriculum team members secure a well ordered and disciplined teaching and learning environment.

· Operate as a learning tutor and, unless responsible for a Division of the Academy or other specified responsibilities, as a Personal Tutor.

· Ensure that learning methods are current and professional development is actively sought to further enhance pedagogy and practice, as well as subject knowledge.