English Tutor

JOB DESCRIPTION

Overall purpose

The role of English Tutor will be required to design, develop, and produce learning and teaching material and deliver either across a range of modules or within a subject area. The role will be hybrid (face- to-face or online) and has responsibility for ensuring that the students undertaking a specific module or unit engage with the module, fulfil their potential in terms of achievement of learning outcomes and enjoy a high- quality student experience. The role of English tutor is vital to student success and English tutors are expected to maximise students’ learning and proficiency in English language and English for Academic Purposes.

Specific duties and responsibilities

Teaching and Learning

The post holder will:

• Teach a set number of sessions each week, including lecturers, seminars, tutorials.
• Maintain attendance registers for teaching sessions and work with the attendance team to ensure the accuracy of the information being entered for students on digital registers.
• Deliver/facilitate teaching sessions in line with the approved programme and module specifications
• Work in line with Regent Digital provisions including VLEs and MS Teams.
• Ensure that students are engaging in their sessions.
• Develop teaching materials for modules.
• Update class notes and other materials and ensure that the VLE is regularly updated.
• Make suggestions through appropriate channels how to improve student academic experience.

Assessment and Marking

The post holder will:

• Support the production of assessments for module/unit and ensure these are approved in accordance with the relevant procedures, as appropriate.
• Participate in standardisation meetings.
• Provide students with formative feedback as appropriate.
• Mark summative assessments as required according to the approved assessment brief and provide timely and constructive feedback to students within the deadlines published by the Assessment Team.
• Identify cases of possible academic misconduct and escalate these according to the relevant procedure of assessment boards.

Student support

The post holder will

• Ensure any issues of student engagement or performance are addressed, signposting students to specialist College services as necessary.
• Field any pastoral requirements students may have, signposting them to relevant specialist College services as necessary.
• Monitor the progress of individual students’ Learning Support Plans, liaising with specialist services
• as necessary

Quality assurance

The post holder will

• Provide a module evaluation report at the end of each module.
• Contribute to Programme evaluations, as required.
• Engage with Programme Committee meetings, contributing towards continuous improvement of the students’ learning experiences and the identification of good practice which other programmes and Schools might usefully draw on.
• Engage with other parts of the College’s quality assurance and academic governance frameworks, as opportunities arise.
• Reflect on the outcomes of student module feedback questionnaires, identifying areas for improvement as well as good practice which colleagues might usefully draw on.
• Contribute to the accreditation of programmes and quality control processes.
• Scholarship
• The post holder will
• Engage in scholarship as required to support teaching activities and continually update knowledge.
• Extend, transform and apply knowledge applied from scholarship to teaching and appropriate external activities including knowledge generation, knowledge exchange and knowledge transfer activities.
• Develop ideas and find ways of disseminating and applying the result of scholarship.

Managing work and resources:

• As English Tutor, co-ordinate with teaching faculty from other disciplines to ensure student needs and expectations are met.
• Manage projects relating to own area of work and the organisation of extra-curricular activities.
• Mentor colleagues with less experience and advise on personal development.
• Identify the need for developing the content or structure of modules with colleagues and make proposals on how this should be achieved.
• Exercise responsibility for the design and delivery of own modules and assessment methods considering established or agreed practice where necessary.
• Collaborate with colleagues on the implementation of assessment procedures, as required.
• Tackle issues affecting the quality of delivery within scope of own level of responsibility, referring more serious matters to others, as appropriate.