Salary:
MPS /UPS
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
ASAP
Apply by:
15 December 2024
Job overview
Job Title: Teacher of Physics
Reports to: Head of Science
Start date: ASAP
Salary: Main Scale/Upper Pay Scale (Ark Inner London)
Contract: Full time, Permanent
Job purpose
To contribute to developing Ark Acton Academy into a great school by teaching a challenging Physics curriculum, teaching highly effective sequences of lessons, and constantly reflecting on your practice.
Objectives
* To deliver consistently excellent sequences of lessons to pupils to enable them to develop a deep understanding of the subject.
* To support the development of a knowledge-led disciplinary curriculum.
* To take responsibility for proactive personal professional development to build own capabilities continuously.
* To constantly reflect on your practice and commit to the multiple layers of training and development available at Ark Acton.
* To make a valued contribution to the school’s pastoral and enrichment programmes; including trips and school visits.
* To hold, as an effective Form Tutor, responsibility for and a ‘single-view’ of each pupil in the tutor group and strive to become a true mentor to every pupil.
* To epitomise the vision and values of Ark Acton Academy and at all times adhere to the staff code of expectations.
Principal Accountabilities
PLANNING AND DELIVERY OF LESSONS
* Plan and deliver high-quality and challenging sequences of lessons.
* Ensure planned sequences of lessons respond to results of assessment, reporting and monitoring.
* Facilitate a learning environment that provides every pupil with an opportunity to achieve his or her potential, including building relationships and managing behaviour effectively to maintain an excellent standard of discipline at all times and a classroom atmosphere that is conducive to work.
* Prepare and present pupils for any internal or public examinations, as directed, in a manner that enables each pupil to achieve his or her potential.
* Maintain high expectations of your pupils and set them challenging but achievable targets.
* Understand your responsibilities for pupils with particular needs, including your responsibilities under the SEN Code of Practice. These will include identifying pupils with special educational needs, adapting your teaching accordingly, seeking advice from the SENCO when appropriate, and maintaining adequate records to enable you to feed into whole-school and external reporting.
* Follow all relevant school and departmental policies in the planning and delivery of lessons.
ASSESSMENT, REPORTING AND COMMUNICATION
* Implement the Academy approach to marking and feedback to inform planning, develop learning and evaluate pupils’ progress.
* Make effective and regular use of the Academy’s assessment criteria and reporting procedures to inform learning.
* Set targets for raising pupil attainment in the context of whole school targets and work towards their achievement.
* Maintain regular records of pupils’ attainment and progress.
* Attend parents’ evenings and Open Evenings as required.
* Assess how well learning objectives have been achieved and use this assessment and Academy provided data on a regular basis for future teaching and target-setting, as well as implementing strategies to address pupil underachievement.
* Liaise with external agencies about individual pupils as required.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
* Take responsibility for your own professional development and demonstrate a commitment to continuous professional development by undertaking, and seeking out, opportunities to build your capabilities as a teacher.
* Maintain an up-to-date expert knowledge of your subject area, related teaching pedagogy and relevant aspects of the National Curriculum, exam board requirements and other statutory provisions, including developments and reforms in broader education policy.
* Ensure you understand your professional responsibilities in relation to school policies and practices.
* Evaluate your own teaching critically and use this to improve your effectiveness.
* Support colleagues when working in your teacher learning communities.
NON-SUBJECT RESPONSIBILITIES
* Demonstrate consistently high expectations of all pupils and a commitment to raising their achievement and social and emotional wellbeing. Promote the positive values, attitudes and behaviour expected from all pupils by treating them with respect and consideration.
* Develop strong and positive relationships with pupils.
* Implement all Academy policies, including the Academy’s behaviour policy.
* Contribute to the design and delivery of the Academy’s enrichment curriculum in line with your timetable and the Ark Acton enrichment policy.
* Model the ethos and vision of the Academy at all times.
* Communicate promptly and sensitively with parents, carers and other relevant bodies where necessary.
* Contribute to the Academy’s liaison, marketing and pupil recruitment activities, e.g. the collection of material for press releases.
* Help to develop effective subject links with partners and the community, including attendance where necessary at liaison events in partner Schools and Academies and the effective promotion of your subject at Open Days/Evenings and other events.
* Establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues including support staff.
* Be familiar with and comply with the Academy’s Health and Safety policies.
* Be responsible for the health & safety of pupils when they are authorised to be on Academy premises and when engaged in authorised activities elsewhere.
* Adhere, at all times, to the expectations of teachers at Ark Acton Academy, outlined on the final page of this document.
* Any other duties as required by the Headteacher commensurate with the post.
No job description can be fully comprehensive, and from time to time the successful candidate may have to undertake other professional duties as directed by the Headteacher/ Deputy Headteacher.
About Ark Acton Academy
* Ark Acton Academy
* Gunnersbury Lane, Acton
* London
* W3 8EY
* United Kingdom
+44 203 110 2400
At Ark Acton Academy we believe that every child, regardless of background or prior achievement, can be successful if given great teaching and pastoral support. Our mission is to create a school of the highest standard that achieves this through recruiting and training excellent teachers and support staff, and by developing a pastoral system that ensures no child is left behind.
Our mastery curriculum is at the heart of school life and ensures that all students get the opportunity to study academic disciplines and to wrestle with ways of thinking that take them beyond everyday understandings. Alongside this we invest heavily in staff training and development to ensure that every student is taught by a subject expert who is passionate about their subject and its importance to understanding the world around us.
Whilst we want all our students to leave Ark Acton Academy with the currency they need to access the next stage of their education and to have an unrelenting focus on hard work and discipline, we know that getting great exam results is only half of a good education: we are determined to deliver as many opportunities as we can for every child to flourish outside the classroom. We want our students to be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with a child from a private school and compete for the same university place or job.
As part of Ark Schools, we have access to world class staff training and development, as well as expertise from across the network. Being part of a family of schools ensures that we can keep learning and evaluating our impact to ensure that every child who comes to Ark Acton leaves as a well-rounded and polite individual with the drive and resources to lead a happy and successful life.
Why work at Ark Acton Academy
At Ark Acton we have stripped away anything we feel gets in the way of being a great teacher so that we can focus on the main thing. This includes:
* Feedback policies that sit at department level and do not require slavish marking of books
* No graded lesson observations or spurious judgements
* No report writing
* No parent’s evenings
* Only 2 data points a year
* No ½ termly data metrics to track progress
* Protected Department meeting time built into the timetable and staff loadings
* Protected curriculum planning time built into the timetable and staff loadings
* A constant SLT presence to maintain our calm, scholarly atmosphere
* A binary behaviour system that enables disruption-free teaching.
Our curriculum
Our purpose as a school is to ensure our young people can go out into the world and live a life of choice and opportunity. We want them to leave Ark Acton having been inducted into systems of worthwhile knowledge that enable them to participate in and shape the national discourse.
In order to achieve this vision for our young people, we place the curriculum at the heart of school life. It drives all other decisions that we make and is the best means we have of demonstrating as a school what we believe in and what we stand for. In essence our curriculum is designed to ensure that all pupils at Acton acquire disciplinary knowledge that they cannot learn at home and that this specified curriculum knowledge is based on the most coherent and tested ways of conceptualising the world that we have.
Alongside our taught academic curriculum we run our co-curricular programme. This programme provides experiences and opportunities for all students to participate in individual and group activities that help them develop essential life skills. Debating and oracy sits at the heart of this model as we aim to enable all our students to develop confidence, articulacy and team-working skills.
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