Assistant Headteacher - Teaching and Learning
As a member of the David Nieper Academy leadership team, you will:
· Think strategically while being able to deal with immediate challenges
· Provide opportunities for staff to grow and develop
· Set a high standard through personal example
· Contribute in a variety of ways to the day to day running of the academy
General role responsibilities
· To strategically lead all aspects of teaching and learning across the academy
· To have an oversight, lead and organise the Continuous Professional Development programme across the academy
· To lead, monitor and review the teaching and learning quality assurance policies and procedures
· To continually evaluate the effectiveness of our teaching and learning and provide the vision to drive its development
· To monitor and evaluate learner experience within the classroom
· To ensure that work related opportunities and employability skills are embedded within the curriculum and delivered to a high standard across all year groups
· To contribute to the academy development plan and academy self-evaluation, providing regular reports to governors
· To make a full contribution to the wider leadership and management of the academy
· To have a teaching commitment of approximately 30% - any subject area will be considered
Specific responsibilities
Teaching and Learning academy strategy
Work with the Headteacher, Senior Leadership Team, Governors and Employer Partners to
· Review and evaluate the current quality of teaching and learning across the academy
· Review and evaluate the current teaching and learning academy strategy
· Produce a clear action plan to enhance rapidly the quality of teaching and learning to in each year group and faculty, providing sustainable strategies that will allow future improvements
· Ensure that the academy teaching and learning strategy supports the Christopher Nieper Education Trust (CNET) vision and supports the development of high-quality employability skills making sustainable links with our employer partners
· Be responsible for the academy teaching and learning policy
Continuous Professional Development
· To create, lead, monitor and evaluate the teaching and learning continuous professional development programme across the academy
· To identify the key priorities in relation to continuous professional development needs
· To design and lead high quality bespoke professional development
· To oversee and build upon the existing programme of instructional coaching for teaching staff
· To lead on and coordinate any teacher support plans to ensure rapid and sustained improvement in practice
· To coordinate all aspects of the Academy’s Early Career Teacher induction and Initial Teacher Education programmes.
· Effectively manage the continuous professional development budget
Quality assurance of teaching and learning
· To lead and oversee the quality assurance of teaching and learning in a transparent manner to ensure that good practice is shared with all, and any areas of development identified are addressed promptly
· To create a quality assurance calendar of activities to effectively evaluate the impact of CPD and assess the impact of teaching across the Academy
· To lead teaching and learning reviews producing and implementing an appropriative action plan
· To lead training of SLT and Heads of Faculty to ensure consistency of approach when quality assuring teaching and learning
· To lead staff training to ensure that all are provided with adequate support, guidance, and advice regarding high quality teaching and learning
Teaching and learning development
· To keep abreast of national and international developments in teaching and learning and share best practice with the SLT, Heads of Faculty, teaching staff and governors
· To work in conjunction with Assistant Head Inclusion and other senior leaders to ensure that high quality teaching and learning supports the wider aims of the academy
Learner experience
· To evaluate the effectiveness of teaching and learning from all stakeholder perspectives
· To continuously seek learner feedback on the impact of teaching and learning
· To work closely with parents to engage them fully in their children’s progress
Employability skills
· To work with the Assistant Headteacher for Personal Development and Employability:
o To ensure that work related opportunities and employability skills are embedded within the curriculum and delivered to a high standard across all year groups
o To work in partnership with employer partners and teachers to ensure that the academy teaching and learning has a clear focus on developing employability skills
Accountability
· Be responsible for producing a teaching and learning development plan and relevant sections of the SEF
· Lead and co-ordinate the SLT/ link governor teaching and learning meetings
· Prepare and present reports on teaching and learning and performance management for governors and CEO as required.