THE DETAILS:
  • Location: Usk, Monmouthshire, NP15 1GA
  • Subject: Teacher
  • Hours: Full Time
  • Contract: Permanent
  • Salary Type: Annually
  • Language: English
  • Closing Date: 11 October, 2024 12:00 PM

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Class Teacher - Archbishop Rowan Williams Church in Wales Primary School

Monmouthshire County Council
An exciting opportunity has arisen due to a retirement in the team, and we are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic teacher join us in January 2025 at Archbishop Rowan Wiliams Church in Wales Primary School.

The Purpose of this Role:

To undertake the duties of a Teacher in accordance with the School Teachers Pay and Conditions Document, the Professional Standards for Teaching and Leadership and other current educational legislation.

Pedagogy

1. Consistently secure the best outcomes for learners through progressively refining and advancing teaching and influencing learners.
2. Establish and maintain a learning environment that promotes positive learning habits and behaviours that meet the four purposes and enables learners take growing responsibility for their own learning.
3. Utilise a range of assessment techniques to monitor and record pupil progress and to inform planning in order to meet identified needs of learners.
4. Make effective use of differentiation to meet the needs of all learners.
5. Make effective use of data to produce timely and accurate feedback, records and reports to facilitate a deeper understanding of learning and enhance the learning experience.
6. Involve parents, carers, other partners and stakeholders in learner development in terms of the four purposes of the curriculum.
7. Embed, develop and extend the four purposes in planning, preparation and teaching to drive learner experience and achieve positive outcomes for all learners.
8. Utilise relevant pedagogies and disciplines within and across subject content, areas of learning and cross-curricular themes in both planning and delivery.
9. Deploy a wide range of teaching methods and blended learning experiences.
10. Extend learners’ cultural, linguistic, religious and socio-economic experience through the use of real-life, authentic contexts for learning.
11. Work with learners to track progress in learning and identify next steps for progress.
12. Develop and use cross-curricular themes relevant to areas of learning to build links and enable effective reflection on learning.
13. Communicate and provide appropriate levels of challenge and expectations for the range of student abilities and characteristics in order to motivate learners to achieve.
14. Seek, listen to and take account of the views of learners in order to engage and encourage them as active participants in their own learning.
15. Encourage learners to reflect upon their own learning and take an active role in managing their own learning agenda.
16. Promote and secure self-motivation and self-direction in learners.
17. Provide time for learners to reflect and evaluate own learning and behaviours.
18. Promote the links between high-quality learning experiences and outcomes and improved learning and well-being.
19. Safeguarding and Child and Adult Protection are key priorities for the School and Council. We aim to support children and adults at risk to be as safe as they can and to fulfil their potential. You are responsible for playing your part in the well-being, safety and protection of children and adults at risk. You will have a responsibility to participate in training to the appropriate level of safeguarding and have a duty to fulfil your personal responsibilities for safeguarding.

Collaboration

20. Work productively with all partners in learning in order to extend professional effectiveness.
21. Proactively seek and engage with advice and support from a range of formal and informal sources and implement this to improve outcomes for learners.
22. Work with in-school colleagues collaboratively and innovatively to enhance learner experience.
23. Support the development of others through contribution to whole school initiatives, involvement in programmes that extend expertise and developing high quality relationships with colleagues in order to have a positive impact upon learner experiences.

Professional Learning

24. Take responsibility for own professional learning by continuously seeking to extend knowledge, skills and understanding and embracing challenge and support to progressively develop pedagogy.
25. Undertake wider reading to enhance understanding of theories and research relating to assessment, pedagogy, child and adolescent development and learning relevant to planning and day to day practice.
26. Engage with professional networks and communities
27. Use the Professional Learning Passport to record professional learning and reflect on and improve practice.

Innovation

28. Employ an innovative outlook to developing techniques and approaches to improve pedagogy and outcomes.
29. Support the development of others through modelling teaching techniques and utilising experience to offer advice and expertise.
30. Use professional judgement and critical analysis to develop new techniques and shape practice to take learning forward.
31. Evaluate, analyse and share the impact of changes in practice.



Leadership

32. Exercise leadership through all aspects of professional practice to support the efforts of others across the school and beyond to fulfil the education ambitions for Wales.
33. Demonstrate a personal and professional commitment to the principles of equity and maximising the potential of all learners.
34. Exercise corporate responsibility through ensuring understanding and compliance with the policies, principles and values of the school, including safeguarding, health and safety and equality.
35. Demonstrate commitment to leading learning through engagement with collaborative experiences in school and other contexts.
36. Support formal leadership roles through seeking an understanding of the role, responsibilities and contribution of others across the school towards the school’s ethos and the fulfilment of the school’s vision.