Director of ICT
4 weeks ago
Post Reference: 2452
Job Title: Director of ICT & Digital Learning
Academy: Leeds City Academy
Grade: Leadership L5-9
Hours: 32.5 per week TTO
Accountable to: Senior Vice Principal
Role:
The successful applicant will have a passion for the subject, an enthusiasm for teaching, and a commitment to supporting the academic and holistic development of every student within their care.
General Duties and Responsibilities:
Working within the law and frameworks:
Maintain an up-to-date knowledge and understanding of the professional duties of teachers and the statutory framework within which they work, and contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of the policies and practice of their workplace, including those designed to promote equality of opportunity.Know the current legal requirements, national policies and local guidance on the safeguarding and promotion of the well-being of children and young people.Know how to identify potential child abuse and follow safeguarding procedures.Know how to identify and support children and young people whose progress, development or well-being is affected by changes or difficulties in their personal circumstances, and when to refer them to colleagues for special support.Developing practice:Evaluate their performance and be committed to improving their practice through appropriate professional development (i.e. training, mentoring etc.)Recognise the importance of self-evaluation in raising standards.Have a creative and constructively critical approach towards innovation; being prepared to adapt their practice where benefits and improvements are identified.Review the effectiveness of their teaching and its impact on learners' progress, attainment and well-being refining their approaches where necessary.Work effectively with the Principal and Executive Principal, the Chair of the Local Governing Body and the Local Governing Body itself to enable it to meet its responsibilities for securing effective teaching and learning and high standards of achievement, and for achieving efficiencies and value for money.Work closely with the Board of The White Rose Academies Trust, its other academies, strategic partners and stakeholders.Professional skills:Promote and model inspirational teaching and learning around ICT.Plan for progression across the age and ability range, designing effective learning sequences within lessons and across series of lessons informed by secure subject/curriculum knowledge.Design opportunities for learners to develop their literacy, numeracy, ID and thinking and learning skills appropriate within their phase and context.Teach challenging, well-organised lessons and sequences of lessons across the age and ability range they teach in which they: o Use an appropriate range of teaching strategies and resources, including e-learning, which meet learners' needs and take practical account of diversity and promote equality and inclusion. o Build on the prior knowledge and attainment of those they teach in order that learners meet learning objectives and make sustained progress. o Develop concepts and processes which enable learners to apply new knowledge, understanding and skills. o Adapt their language to suit the learners they teach, introducing new ideas and concepts clearly, and using explanations, questions, discussions and plenaries effectively. Make effective use of an appropriate range of observation, assessment, monitoring and recording strategies as a basis for setting challenging learning objectives and monitoring learners' progress and levels of attainment.Provide learners, colleagues, and carers with timely, accurate and constructive feedback on learners' attainment, progress, and areas of development.Support and guide learners so that they can reflect on their learning, identify the progress they have made, set positive targets for improvement, and become successful independent learners.Use assessment as part of their teaching to diagnose learners' needs, set realistic and challenging targets for improvement and plan future teaching.Establish a purposeful and safe learning environment which complies with current legal requirements, national policies and guidance on the safeguarding and well-being of children and young people so that learners feel secure and sufficiently confident to make an active contribution to learning and to the academy.Manage learners' behaviour constructively by establishing and maintaining a clear and positive framework for behaviour management, in line with the Academy's behaviour policy.Promote learners' self-control, independence, and cooperation through developing their social, emotional and behavioural skills.Strategic Direction, Academy Trust and Academy wide improvement:To work as a key and leading member of the Trust Digital Strategy group to ensure the clear strategic direction of Digital Learning is embedded across all schools within the White Rose Academies TrustTo work with the Senior Leadership Team to improve and develop the effective use of ICT to drive standards of teaching, learning and assessment across the academy.Lead on key specific areas of responsibility that ensure the realisation of an exceptional educational provision for all young people at the academy.Work in conjunction with community, business and industry partners and other local community and educational organisations to develop reciprocal opportunities.Professional knowledge and understanding:Know and understand the relevant statutory and non-statutory curricula and frameworks, including those provided through the National Strategies, for their subjects/curriculum areas and other relevant initiatives across the age and ability range they teach.Know how to use skills in literacy, numeracy, and ICT to support their teaching and wider professional activities.Understand how children and young people develop and how the progress, rate of development and well-being of learners are affected by a range of developmental, social, religious, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic influences.Know how to make effective personalised provision for those they teach and how to take practical account of diversity and promote equality and inclusion in their teaching.Know when to draw on the expertise of colleagues, such as those with responsibility for the safeguarding of children and young people and special educational needs and disabilities, and to refer to sources of information, advice, and support from external agencies.Closing Date: 21st May 2024Shortlisting: 21st May 2024
Interview Date: 23rd May 2024
Start Date: 1st September 2024
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