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Leader of Learning - Key Stage 3 ICT, Belfast
Client:
Education Authority
Location:
Belfast, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
2804dd09c9e1
Job Views:
8
Posted:
01.03.2025
Expiry Date:
15.04.2025
Job Description:
JOB DESCRIPTION
JOB TITLE: Leader of Learning – KS3 ICT
PROFESSIONAL DUTIES OF A TEACHER
(NORTHERN IRELAND) 1987
Schedule 3
Regulation 5
Purpose:
To take overall responsibility to lead staff, students and parents in meeting the needs of KS3 students within the ICT department in conjunction with subject teachers and in accordance with school policies.
As a key member of the School Middle Leadership Team, the Leader of Learning: KS3 ICT will be expected to work collaboratively with their colleagues, sharing their ideas, skills and talents and contribute to the effective functioning of a highly motivated, cohesive team with a shared vision for the future of Belfast Model School for Girls and a sense of common purpose.
The Leader of Learning: KS3 ICT will play an important role in the school’s Middle Leadership Team (MLT) ensuring that the young people in the school experience the highest quality of learning provision from a highly skilled professional team of teachers and support staff, within a supportive, encouraging and disciplined environment.
Responsibilities:
* Promote and provide professional leadership and management for KS3 ICT within the school to secure high quality teaching and learning, effective use of resources, and the highest standards of outcomes and achievement for all students, in line with the School Development Plan (SDP).
* Lead by example, providing inspiration and motivation, embodying the vision and purpose of the school.
* Play an important role in promoting the ethos of the school.
* Promote excellence in teaching and learning and pastoral care within KS3 ICT, with a particular focus on E-Safety.
* Play a proactive, positive role in promoting high standards in relation to attendance, punctuality, school work, homework and behaviour in class at KS3 within the ICT department.
* Communicate and establish clear expectations and advice to ICT department staff in relation to KS3 ICT.
* Be available to attend relevant and linked school functions out of school hours.
Objectives:
* To ensure student entitlement and access to the NI Curriculum in KS3 ICT.
* To raise continuously standards of student achievements in KS3 ICT at all levels.
* To foster enjoyment and satisfaction in the study of KS3 ICT by students.
* To enhance the quality of teaching and learning of KS3 ICT.
* To establish and maintain a culture of high expectations for all within KS3 ICT.
* To encourage and develop students’ awareness and capacity to use ICT safely.
* To contribute to a whole school cross curricular approach to developing and improving USING ICT & LITERACY at all levels within KS3 ICT.
* To contribute to a whole school cross curricular approach to developing and improving NUMERACY at all levels within KS3 ICT.
* To contribute to a whole school cross curricular approach to developing and improving ICT at all levels within KS3 ICT.
Principal Responsibility Areas:
(A) Strategic direction of KS3 ICT
(B) Teaching, learning and the curriculum
(C) Leading and managing staff
(D) Managing resources
Key Tasks:
* A1 To establish a vision and development plans for the subject/areas of responsibility in respect of students of all abilities at KS3.
* A2 To establish, develop and implement policies and schemes of work, assessment activities for KS3 ICT in line with recent inspection reports, research evidence and SDP.
* A3 To monitor and evaluate the effects of subject policies and plans, establishing clear targets for improving and sustaining student achievement at KS3.
* A4 To contribute to ICT department curriculum development by working closely with Leader of Learning: DTMC.
* A5 To provide reports for the Board of Governors/Principal as requested.
* A6 To promote and encourage a rich and diverse extra-curricular programme for KS3 ICT.
* B1 To lead the teaching of KS3 ICT by example.
* B2 Using an evidence-based approach to monitor the progress of students in KS3 ICT, setting appropriate targets for individual and departmental improvement.
* B3 To set expectations for the work of all staff involved in the teaching of KS3 ICT and to act to secure improvement.
* B4 To liaise closely with Learning Support Co-ordinator, LOL DTMC and SLT to ensure the needs of students are best met.
* B5 To ensure the completion of necessary administration in relation to KS3 ICT.
* B6 To assist with the implementation of statutory and school requirements/policies on assessment, marking, recording, and reporting.
* B7 To lead the KS3 ICT Accreditation within the school.
* C1 To develop effective working relations with all teachers of KS3 ICT, parents, senior leaders and governors.
* C2 To participate in the performance management of staff (PRSD) as required by school policy.
* C3 To assist with professional development in KS3 ICT.
* C4 To work with others in the delivery of Literacy and Numeracy strategies.
* D1 To establish, maintain and develop appropriate resources for the teaching of KS3 ICT and assist with creating a stimulating environment in ICT classrooms.
* D3 To ensure the effective and efficient management and organisation of learning resources including information technology for KS3 ICT.
* D4 To manage the financial resources allocated to KS3 ICT effectively and efficiently.
* D5 To undertake other tasks which may be required from time to time at the request of the Principal/BOG.
* D6 To carry out the professional duties of a teacher as directed by the Principal.
LEADERSHIP AT KS3 OF (including line management of staff if appropriate):
Subject schemes of learning, Subject resources for learning and teaching, Subject extracurricular and enrichment activities/clubs, Target Setting, Subject assessment, Student progress and intervention and support, Student tracking, Quality assurance and self-evaluation (individual and team), E-safety within ICT.
1) Exercise of general professional duties:
A teacher who is not a principal shall carry out the professional duties of a teacher as circumstances may require.
2) Exercise of particular duties:
A teacher employed as a teacher (other than a principal) in a school shall perform, in accordance with any directions which may be reasonably given to him/her by the principal from time to time, such particular duties as may reasonably be assigned to him/her.
1. Planning:
1.1 Planning and preparing courses and lessons;
1.2 Teaching, according to their educational needs, the pupils assigned to him/her, including the setting and marking of work to be carried out by the pupils in school and elsewhere;
1.3 Assessing, recording and reporting on the development, progress and attainment of pupils.
2. General:
2.1 Promoting the general progress and well-being of individual pupils and of any class or group of pupils assigned to him/her;
2.2 Providing advice and guidance to pupils on educational and social matters and on their further education and future careers including information about sources of more expert advice on specific questions, making relevant records and reports;
2.3 Making records of and reports on the personal and social needs of pupils except in instances where to do so might be regarded as compromising a teacher’s own position;
2.4 Communicating and consulting with the parents of pupils;
2.5 Communicating and co-operating with such persons or bodies outside the school as may be approved by the employing authority and the Board of Governors;
2.6 Participating in meetings arranged for any of the purposes described above.
3. Assessment/Reporting:
Providing or contributing to oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual pupils and groups of pupils except in instances where to do so might be regarded as compromising a teacher’s own position.
4. Staff Development/Professional Development:
4.1 Participating, if required, in any scheme of staff development and performance review;
4.2 Reviewing from time to time his/her methods of teaching and programmes of work;
4.3 Advising and co-operating with the Principal and other teachers on the preparation and development of courses of study, teaching materials, teaching programmes, methods of teaching and assessment and pastoral arrangements.
5. Discipline/Health and Safety:
5.1 Maintaining good order and discipline among pupils in accordance with the policies of the employing authority and safeguarding their health and safety both when they are authorised to be on the school premises and when they are engaged in authorised school activities elsewhere.
6. Public Examinations:
Participating in arrangements for preparing pupils for public examinations and in assessing pupils for the purposes of such examinations; recording and reporting such assessments; and participating in arrangements for pupils’ presentation for and supervision during such examination.
7. Review and Development of Management Activities/Administration:
7.1 Contributing to the selection for appointment and professional development of other teachers, including the induction and assessment of probationary teachers;
7.2 Participating in administrative and organisational tasks related to such duties as described above.
8. Number of days/Hours of work:
A full-time teacher shall be available for work on 195 days in any year of which not more than 190 days should involve teaching children in a classroom situation.
9. Staff cover:
Supervising and teaching any pupils whose teacher is not available provided that certain conditions are met.
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