Curriculum Leader for English

2 weeks ago


Torquay, United Kingdom St Cuthbert Mayne School Full time

**Curriculum Leader for English**

**MPS/UPS + TLR 1 £11,168**

**Key Purpose of Job**
- The key purpose of the role is to design and implement an ambitious English curriculum that enables all students to achieve great outcomes.

**Curriculum Leader Roles and Responsibilities**
- To design and implement an ambitious and challenging curriculum that enables all students to achieve their full potential
- To lead, develop and implement teaching, learning and assessment initiatives and strategies throughout the department, that improves the teaching practice of all members of staff and therefore raise student attainment
- To be a model of excellent practice, maintaining a clear focus on outstanding delivery to learners ensuring a centre of best practice and excellence. Demonstrate excellent and innovative pedagogical practice and deliver demonstration lessons
- To lead the development of high quality teaching resources, schemes of learning and home learning tasks to be used within the department to ensure cohesion of student experience and a high standard of consistency and quality
- To challenge and support underperforming teachers within the department to enable them to improve their practice
- Take a lead role in improving the effectiveness of assessment practice within the department, analysing statistical information to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching and learning and the progress of students
- To take a lead role in developing, implementing, and evaluating policies and practice that lead to School Improvement
- Contribute to the whole school professional development programme for teaching staff
- To undertake research into best practice in other schools and research and evaluate innovative curricular practices and draw on research outcomes and other sources of external evidence to inform own practice and that of colleagues
- To be an excellent practitioner to deliver outstanding student outcomes and to support colleagues in achieving the same
- Take a lead role within the Department, working closely with other practitioners in determining and developing policies, procedures, and practice, promoting collective responsibility for their implementation to ensure high achievement through effective teaching and learning
- To design and implement a Department Improvement Plan reflects the school and department ambitions
- To build positive relationships with the diocesan education teams and work in partnership with them to support school improvement.
- To lead and manage the department and ensure the department is fully compliant with school policies and procedures
- To manage the department budget and resources effectively to maximise student progress
- To work with the Chaplaincy Team to enhance the RE curriculum
- To engage in networks and partnership opportunities
- Ensure that there is a culture of high expectations of student behaviour and attitudes within your department
- To work with stakeholders to monitor and evaluate the work of the department
- To use pupil performance data to identify strengths and areas of development to inform department improvement

**Teaching**

All Teaching Staff are expected to meet and demonstrate the relevant National Standards for Teachers available at:
**Roles and Responsibilities**
- **Set high expectations which inspire, motivate and challenge students**:

- establish a safe and stimulating environment for students, rooted in mutual respect
- set goals that stretch and challenge students of all backgrounds, abilities and dispositions
- demonstrate consistently the positive attitudes, values and behaviour which are expected of students.
- **Promote good progress and outcomes by students**
- be accountable for students’ attainment, progress and outcomes
- be aware of students’ capabilities and their prior knowledge, and plan teaching to build on these
- guide students to reflect on the progress they have made and their emerging needs
- demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how students learn and how this impacts on teaching
- encourage students to take a responsible and conscientious attitude to their own work and study.
- if teaching early reading, demonstrate a clear understanding of systematic synthetic phonics
- if teaching early mathematics, demonstrate a clear understanding of appropriate teaching strategies.
- **Plan and teach well-structured lessons**
- impart knowledge and develop understanding through effective use of lesson time
- promote a love of learning and children’s intellectual curiosity
- set home learning and plan other out-of-class activities to consolidate and extend the knowledge and understanding students have acquired
- reflect systematically on the effectiveness of lessons and approaches to teaching
- **Adapt teaching to respond to the strengths and needs of all students**
- know when and how to differentiate appropriately, using approaches which enable students to be taught effectively
- have a secure understanding of how a ran



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