What skills and experience we're looking for:
Qualified teacher status:
* Degree level qualification
* Experience teaching KS3 and KS4
* Relevant postgraduate professional qualification
* Good classroom teacher
* Ability to motivate and interest pupils
* Ability to set and attain high standards from pupils
* Ability to use ICT
* Sound understanding of the curriculum
* Excellent behaviour management skills
* Excellent interpersonal skills
* Ability to work as part of a team
* Excellent planning and organisational skills
* Effective oral and written communication skills
* Knowledge of key performance indicators and the ability to use them to monitor progress
* Awareness of the needs of children who speak English as an additional language or have SEND
* An understanding of how a pupil’s learning is affected by their intellectual, emotional, and social development, and the stages of child development
* An understanding of equal opportunity issues
* High degree of commitment to subject and teaching children
* Sets self-high standards and targets
* Willingness to undertake CPD
* Supportive of colleagues
* Good attendance and punctuality
* Pro-active in the working environment
* Enthusiastic and positive attitude
* Ability to accommodate changes in work priorities
* Ability to anticipate workload and plan ahead
* Ability to develop effective relationships with parents
* Ability to encourage and enable others to reach their full potential
What the school offers its staff:
Strong effective teaching and a stimulating environment characterise our school. Children of all abilities experience success, progress well, develop feelings of self-worth, and participate in a variety of interesting, enriching experiences in and out of the classroom. Our pupils are supported to grow into responsible, self-disciplined young people ready for the next stage of their lives. We welcome staff who are enthusiastic and enjoy teaching and working hard with and for our young people. In return, we invest hugely in staff support and development.
Day-to-day Activities:
* Preparing and delivering lessons to a range of classes of different ages and abilities. Marking work, giving appropriate feedback and maintaining records of pupils' progress and development.
* Researching new topic areas, maintaining up-to-date subject knowledge, and devising and writing new curriculum materials.
* Selecting and using a range of different learning resources and equipment, including podcasts and interactive whiteboards.
* Undertaking pastoral duties, such as taking on the role of form tutor, and supporting pupils on an individual basis through academic or personal difficulties.
* Preparing pupils for qualifications and external examinations.
* Managing pupil behaviour in the classroom and on school premises, and applying appropriate and effective measures in cases of misbehaviour.
* Supervising and supporting the work of learning mentors.
* Participating in and organising extracurricular activities, such as outings, social activities and sporting events.
* Participating in departmental meetings, parents' evenings and whole school training events.
* Liaising with other professionals, such as learning mentors, careers advisers, educational psychologists and education welfare officers.
* Undergoing regular observations and participating in regular in-service training (INSET) as part of continuing professional development (CPD).
* Preparing differentiated work for those pupils who have Special Educational Needs and ensuring sufficient supervision and guidance for pupils who have Special Educational Needs.
Contact by email and please send in your CV to: office@opschooloffice.com
Overstone Park School
Overstone Park
Overstone
Northampton
NN6 ODT
Contact number 01604 969232
About Overstone Park School:
A non-selective independent school registered with DFE and ISI for boys and girls aged 5 to 18 years.
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