Teacher of Criminology in Pontefract

Relationships with Young People

• Have high expectations of young people including a commitment to ensuring that they can achieve their full educational potential and to ensure students are treated as unique individuals.
• Hold positive values and attitudes and adopt high standards of behaviour in their professional role.
• Motivate and build self-esteem and self-worth/self-belief, developing a ‘can do’ attitude with students.

Communication

• Communicate effectively with students and colleagues.
• Communicate effectively with parents and carers at appropriate times, conveying relevant information about attainment, objectives and progress.
• Participate in open events and parents/student consultation evenings as appropriate.

Teaching and Learning

• Demonstrate a good up to date working knowledge and understanding of a range of teaching, learning and assessment strategies and know how to use and adopt them to provide opportunities for all learners to achieve their potential.
• Be fully conversant with the assessment requirements for the subjects/curriculum areas taught, including those relating to public examinations and qualifications.
• Understand what makes good ‘one to one’ academic monitoring interviews with students, in order to provide students with constructive individual feedback on strengths and recipes for improvement including action plans for improvement.
• Demonstrate a secure knowledge and understanding of your subject and related pedagogy.
• Teach challenging, well organised lessons and sequences of lessons across the ability range taught.
• Utilise an appropriate range of teaching strategies and resources.
• Build upon students’ prior knowledge and attainment to meet learning objectives and make sustained progress.
• Adapt language to suit the differential ability of students when introducing new ideas and concepts.
• Use explanations, questions, discussions and plenaries effectively to teach engaging and motivational lessons designed to raise levels of attainment.
• Keep adequate records of students in your charge.
• Follow the school’s scheme of work, homework assessments and be involved in regular updating and review.
• Manage the learning of individuals and whole classes effectively, modifying teaching appropriately to suit the stage of the lesson and needs of the learner.
• Use assessment as part of teaching to diagnose needs, set realistic and challenging targets for improvements and planning future teaching.
• Review the effectiveness of teaching and its impact on student progress and attainment through reviews with the Head of School.

Team Working and Collaboration

• Work with team members and as a team member; identify opportunities for working with colleagues and sharing effective practice with them.
• Participate in School Meetings and contribute to the use and development of appropriate specifications/syllabuses, schemes of work, assessment strategies and teaching and learning approaches.

Additional Duties

• Contribute to and participate in continuous professional development activities and whole staff meetings/CPD.
• Be committed to the safeguarding and wellbeing of Young People.
• Observe at all times confidentiality appropriate to the post and work within Trust guidelines of Data Protection.
• You may be required to work up to 2 evenings per academic year to support trust events.