Job Description: Lead Drama Teacher
Start date: September 2019
Salary: ARK MPS (Inner London) Negotiable
Reports to: Director of Performing Arts
Ark All Saints is a small school made up of 600 scholars. We consider ourselves to be members of a family, who work together to ensure the success of all our children.
Our staff are deeply committed to the culture and ethos of Ark All Saints. We leave no child behind and work relentlessly to enable all to fulfil their potential. We want our teaching staff to be fully equipped to meet the needs of all scholars and so we provide outstanding training for all teaching staff with over two hours of specialist teacher training per week built into the school day on top of ten inset days per year. Staff are constantly being developed through coaching and mentoring. If you want to become an outstanding practitioner and /or are looking to work somewhere in which your skills as a teacher are recognised, celebrated and nurtured - come and visit Ark All Saints Academy.
We are a Church of England academy whose only admission criteria is on distance, we welcome students of all faiths and none and we expect all members of staff to support and uphold the moral ethos of our academy.
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated Drama Teacher with a commitment to academic excellence and helping every child succeed. Working as part of a small team, you will play an important part in developing the new academy’s Drama provision. You will plan and deliver high quality lessons and be committed to achieving excellent results for their students, instilling in them a love for the subject and a desire to learn.
Our ideal candidate will:
- be passionate about teaching and committed to achieving excellent results for their students
- demonstrate high levels of ambition and optimism regarding what the academy and its students can achieve - have the resolve to make a real difference to the lives of pupils
- be committed to Ark’s ethos of high expectations and no excuses
- In return, you will have the opportunity to work with great colleagues and receive the support to develop yourself through an outstanding professional development programme. We offer attractive remuneration as well as a range of benefits including reduced gym membership and large retail discounts.
If you are seeking a challenging and highly rewarding position, enriching the lives of our students, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Key responsibilities
- To plan, resource and deliver lessons and sequences of lessons to the highest standard that ensure real learning takes place and scholars make superior progress
- To provide a nurturing classroom and academy environment that helps scholars to develop as learners
- To help to maintain/establish discipline across the whole academy
- To contribute to the effective working of the academy.
Outcomes and Activities
Teaching and Learning
- Enrich the curriculum with trips and visits to enhance the learning experience of all scholars
- With direction from the line manager and within the context of the academies curriculum and schemes of work, plan and prepare effective teaching modules and lessons
- Teach engaging and effective lessons that motivate, inspire and improve scholar attainment
- Use regular assessments to set targets for scholars, monitor scholar progress and respond accordingly to the results of such monitoring
- To produce/contribute to oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual and groups of scholars
- Develop plans and processes for the classroom with measurable results and evaluate those results to make improvements in scholar achievement
- Ensure that all scholars achieve at least at chronological age level or, if well below level, make significant and continuing progress towards achieving at chronological age level
- Maintain regular and productive communication with scholars, parents and carers, to report on progress, sanctions and rewards and all other communications
- Provide or contribute to oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual scholars and groups of scholars
- Direct and supervise support staff assigned to lessons and when required participate in related recruitment and selection activities
- Implement and adhere to the academies behaviour management policy, ensuring the health and well-being of scholars is maintained at all times
- Participate in preparing scholars for external examinations.
Academy Culture
- Support the academies values and ethos by contributing to the development and implementation of policies practices and procedures
- Help create a strong academy community, characterised by consistent, orderly behaviour and caring, respectful relationships
- Help develop a school/department culture and ethos that is utterly committed to achievement
- To be active in issues of scholar welfare and support
- Support and work in collaboration with colleagues and other professional in and beyond the school, covering lessons and providing other support as required.
Other
- Undertake , and when required, deliver or be part of the appraisal system and relevant training and professional development
- Undertake other various responsibilities as directed by the Subject Leader or