Upper Shirley High School
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Teaching positions available!
Required for September 2012
Upper Shirley High School
Bellemoor Road
Southampton SO15 7QU
Co-ed Comprehensive (11-16)
Tel: 023 8032 5333
This expanding and nationally recognised innovative academy serves the Upper Shirley area of Southampton.
Come and join the most improved secondary school in Southampton since 2007. Due to expansion we will have teaching positions available in the English, Maths, Science and ICT departments from September 2012. NQTs are very welcome to apply.
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You will need to be a dynamic, well-qualified practitioner who can be a part of an outstanding team and school. The successful applicants will be welcomed and supported in our friendly environment where we have a passion for learning.
Full details and application forms can be downloaded from our website www.ushschool.org from the ‘Our School’ section.
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and an enhanced CRB will be required for this post.
Closing Date: Friday 3rd February 2012
Job Description
MPS - SUBJECT AND THRESHOLD TEACHERS
The Post
Key Elements
- To prepare, develop and deliver appropriate schemes of work, which provide challenging lessons that stimulate students and allow them to succeed.
- To teach across the full age and ability range.
- To encourage effective learning through the use of a variety of teaching methods which motivate students of all abilities.
- To demonstrate the ability to use a range of teaching strategies to maximise student potential.
- To ensure that students’ work is marked regularly and that they receive constructive feedback.
- To enable all students to achieve targets set.
- To keep accurate up-to-date records of student progress in order to inform teaching and target setting.
- To be able to instil passion about the subject.
- To set homework in accordance with the homework policy and ensure that appropriate feedback is given.
- To provide information to parents about the achievements and progress of their child as required through parents’ evenings and reports.
- To liaise with other staff over issues such as learning support.
- To contribute to the whole school aims.
- To be responsible for a positive learning environment, student handbooks and exercise books.
- To contribute to the wider curriculum through involvement in extra-curricular activities.
- To participate in appropriate meetings.
- To take on the role of a tutor within the team and be responsible for the academic and pastoral well-being of a tutor group.
- To take an active interest in their own personal development and keep professional skills up-to-date.
- To complete all other reasonable tasks as directed by the Principal or line manager.
Every member of staff at our academy has a very clear responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children.
Threshold Teachers
For teachers to be considered for Threshold Payments they should be able to demonstrate the following:
- They have met the criteria as published in the national programme for Threshold teachers.
- Demonstrate consistently high standards of teaching and learning as demonstrated through a range of evidence, eg lesson observation, students’ results in national examinations based on value-added and/or residuals, individual student progress better than is nationally expected.
- Wider professional effectiveness in supporting the aims and ethos of the academy.
- Undertake to share good practice with other staff.
- Have completed performance management reviews successfully with targets being met.
- Staff applying for UPS 2 and 3 should have clear evidence that they have maintained the Threshold standards and the above criteria.
Please click here for English Job Specification - PDF
Please click here for Maths Job Specification - PDF
