KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Teaching and Learning

• Contribute to the holistic well-being of all pupils and specifically to those assigned to your individual care.
• Make all pupils aware of the school vision, values and identity, and display them in an innovative and informative fashion in the classroom and adjacent corridors.
• Undertake class management as a class teacher.
• Complete teaching plans on time and to a high standard.
• Teach Social Studies (history/geography) lessons independently.
• Participate in curriculum meetings and pastoral meetings with international and Chinese teachers. Contribute ideas during discussions.
• Assess regularly the pupils’ work by means of formative and formal semester/half-semester assessments, as directed by the department head and the Head of Junior High.
• Communicate with the department head regarding any student whose progress or behaviour gives cause for concern.
• Monitor and evaluate constantly the effectiveness of your own teaching, maintaining good standards of practice and ensuring progression.
• Participate fully in the Staff Appraisal system, with classroom observation of colleagues and a willingness to be personally observed within the classroom.
• Submit books, records or planning as required for monitoring by colleagues or the department head.
• Be involved in developing, implementing and monitoring all school policies regarding Social Studies, and to assist in the necessary documentation pertaining to the subject, where required by the head of department.
• Assist with the resourcing of Social Studies, and work with the department head in drawing up the annual order.
• Apply consistently and diligently the rules of the school in order to maintain discipline, standards of dress and to safeguard the happiness, safety and well-being of all pupils. To ensure that pupils know, understand and follow the school rules.
• Provide opportunities for the community to be involved in pupils’ and setting success.

Home-School communication

• Make parents feel welcome and build good relationship with parents.
• Introduce information regarding to Social Studies curriculum.
• Collect information of pupils’ interests and growth from parents.
• Stimulate pupils’ study by making use of parents’ strength.
• Provide consultations and support to parents’ enquiries.
• Communicate with parents on a regular basis, as directed by the department head and the Head of Junior High.
• Attend Parents’ Meetings as required and provide accurate, honest information regarding the progress of individuals in Social Studies.
• Report to the parents in the form of regular written reports, and when may be additionally required by the Head of Junior High.

Professional Integrity

• Be positive and build good relationship with colleagues.
• Complete tasks on time.
• Provide cover for absent colleagues as and when deemed necessary by the Head of Junior High.
• Play a full role in the weekly co-curricular activities programme.
• Make a significant contribution to school assemblies, WeChat articles and newsletters, and by so doing highlight the work carried out by pupils in the subject.
• Promote an ethos of equality and equal opportunities for all pupils within the setting.
• Protect privacy of pupils, pupils’ families and colleagues.
• Maintain the highest standards of care, child protection and safeguarding at all times.
• Emphasize the importance of safety and of safe methods of working in the classroom, and indeed in all areas of the school and the curriculum.
• Communicate to the pupils that they must take a responsible attitude to equipment and materials, with which they have been provided, and that they will be punished and possibly charged for damage inflicted upon school property.
• Carry out duties as required and timetabled by the Head of Junior High. This will include playtime supervision, lunchtime supervision and after-school supervision.
• Maintain, with the rest of the teaching staff, high standards of conduct both in and out of the classroom. Act always in a way that conforms to the school ethos and values and is in the best interests of the pupils.
• Set high expectations and standards for the achievement of pupils and your personal performance.
• Contribute as fully as possible to the annual calendar of school events, in whatever way possible.

Professional Development

• Be familiar with the recent development of IGCSE and IB history and geography teaching theory and practice.
• Improve yourself through continuous study and be willing to try new ideas.
• Be willing to accept others’ good ideas and share your opinions.
• Frequently reflection on your work and share your experience with an international teaching partner and other colleagues.
• Support the School Development Plan generally and in so far as it relates to Social Studies.
• Attend and participate fully in School Staff Development.
• Attend staff meetings and briefings as and when required by the Head of Junior High and the department head.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

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