Job title: SEN Teacher
Location: Arc School (Old Arley), CV7 8NU
Reports to: Head Teacher/Deputy Head Teacher
Description of Role:
The post holder must support, observe and record the progress of their class. They also must plan lessons in line with national objectives with the aim of ensuring a healthy culture of learning.
The post holder must also keep up to date with developments in their subject area, new resources, methods and national objectives. The role involves liaising and networking with other professionals, parents and carers, both informally and formally.
To be an advocate for the school ethos of Aspiration, Resilience and Courage, seeing and demonstrating its use as paramount to the success of our young people.
Duties and Responsibilities Specific to the Post:
1. Teaching
(a) Planning and preparing courses and lessons taking reasonable responsibility for subject development and over sight.
(b) Teaching, according to their educational needs, the pupils assigned, including the setting and marking of work to be carried out by the pupils in School and elsewhere.
(c) Assessing, recording and reporting on the development, progress and attainment of pupils.
2. Other Activities
(a) Promoting the general progress and well-being of individual pupils and of any class or group of pupils assigned to him / her.
(b) Providing guidance and advice 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.
(c) Making records of, and reports on, the personal and social needs of pupils.
(d) Communicating and consulting with the parents of pupils.
(e) Communicating and co-operating with persons or bodies outside the School.
(f) Participating in meetings arranged for any of the purposes described above.
3. Assessments and Reports
Providing or contributing to oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual pupils and groups of pupils.
4. Appraisal and Performance Management
Participating in the School’s Performance Management Procedures for his / her own, and that of other teachers, as required.
5. Review, Induction, Further Training and Development
(a) Reviewing from time to time his / her methods of teaching and Programmes of Work.
(b) Participating in arrangements for his / her further training and professional development as a teacher.
- In the case of a teacher serving an Induction period, participating in arrangements for supervision and training.
6. Educational Methods
Advising and co-operating with the Head/Deputy Head Teacher and other teachers on the preparation and development of courses of study, teaching materials, teaching programmes, methods of teaching and assessment and pastoral arrangements.
7. Discipline, Health and Safety
Maintaining good order and discipline among the pupils 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.
8. Staff Meetings
Participating in meetings at the School which relate to the Curriculum for the School or the administration or organisation of the School, including pastoral arrangements.
9. Cover
Supervising and, so far as practicable, teaching any pupils whose teacher is not available to teach them.
10. 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 examinations.
- Management
(a) Contributing to the selection for appointment and professional development of other teachers and non-teaching staff, including the Induction and assessment of new teachers and teachers serving Induction periods.
(b) Assisting the Head/Deputy Head Teacher or an Assessor in carrying out threshold assessments of other teachers for whom he / she has management responsibility.
(c) Co-ordinating or managing the work of other teachers.
(d) Taking such part as may be required of him / her in the review, development and management of activities relating to the curriculum, organisation and pastoral functions of the School.
12. Administration
- Participating in administrative and organisational tasks related to such duties as are described above, including the management or supervision of persons providing support for the teachers in the School and the ordering and allocation of equipment and materials.
(b) Attending assemblies, registering the attendance and supervising pupils, whether these duties are to be performed before, during or after School sessions.
13. Training and Development
(a) Participating in arrangements for your own induction, supervision, training and development.
(b) Undertaking qualifications deemed necessary by the Head/Deputy Head Teacher to fulfil the requirements of the post.
(c) Reviewing your own methods of care and support.
(d) Participating in the safeguarding of all the children and ensuring that Arc School Old Arley’s Child Protection Policy is adhered to.