Teacher of Science

Abbey College, Ramsey, Cambridgeshire

Teacher of Science

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Abbey College, Ramsey, Cambridgeshire

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 1 week ago, 29 Apr | Get your application in now before you miss out!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

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Location ref: Ramsey, Cambridgeshire

Full Job Description

  • Ensure all pupils have equal access to learning using appropriate strategies and resources, where necessary.
  • Liaise with pastoral staff members to ensure the wellbeing of pupils and their full participation in school life.
  • Raise any concerns regarding pupils' behaviour with the relevant Raising Standards Lead.
  • Implement any specific arrangements for individual pupils, ensuring that relevant staff members are aware of the measures in place.
  • Provide individual pastoral support to pupils, where necessary.
  • Continuously motivate and challenge pupils, whilst promoting and reinforcing self-esteem.

    Good or outstanding classroom practitioner
  • Ability to use assessment to inform planning and departmental strategies
  • Driver of curriculum initiatives
  • Ability to differentiate materials to meet the needs of learners
  • Experience or desire to raise standards and achievements
  • Willingness to continue to develop own expertise
  • Ability to build good relationships with students and colleagues
  • Be well organised and able to maintain accurate records
  • Ability to use ICT effectively to engage students
  • Person Specification Skills and abilities:
  • Able to manage people effectively, set high standards, to administer efficiently, to work collaboratively and to give leadership to colleagues
  • Confident use of ICT with the ability to use it to enhance pupil learning in the classroom
  • Able to use assessment for learning and assessment data to raise standards of achievement in groups of learners
  • Able to communicate effectively with a wide variety of people, including pupils, parents and colleagues
  • Ability to be a committed and effective Form Tutor
  • Personal qualities:
  • Enthusiastic and committed to the teaching of Science
  • Creative in problem solving together with a willingness to take on new approaches and ideas
  • A positive attitude towards continuing professional development and their own learning with ambition for further development and promotion
  • A positive, "can do" approach to cope with the challenges ahead
  • Reliability and integrity
  • Professionally ambitious
  • Willingness to provide extra-curricular activities that extend pupils' experience and to contribute to the wider life of the School
  • Committed to the welfare and safeguarding of young people
  • Humble, Intuitive and Passionate, To have the ability to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people.
  • Appreciate the significance of safeguarding and interprets this accurately for all individual children and young people whatever their life circumstances.
  • To have a good understanding of the safeguarding agenda and can demonstrate an ability to contribute towards a safe environment.
  • The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice and information in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.

    The Science Department is a successful, forward thinking and friendly team, comprising of nine well qualified specialist practitioners and two highly skilled and supportive technicians. As a department, we are passionate about embedding Science Capital and Careers into the curriculum. Our teaching staff consistently resource wider reading opportunities to share with students, to ensure that Science is a subject with context and relevance. Our students follow the three-year AQA course at GCSE and our KS5 students study A-levels in Biology, Chemistry and Physics, as well as Level 3 BTEC in Applied Science.

    MPS/UPS

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