Foreign Language Assistant

**Overview**:
**Foreign Language Assistant - French**
West Buckland School is seeking a suitably motivated, confident and a qualified teacher of Foreign Language Assistant - French

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Summary of main responsibilities
To assist with the teaching of Modern Foreign Languages by giving conversation lessons to individual students or

The role
- To promote the study of languages amongst students.
- To conduct approximately 12 x 30-minute periods of conversation per week (although the precise number of

lessons taught will vary according to the number of students studying the language at A-level). In previous
years, the lessons have been timetabled over two half days.
- To prepare resource material for the conversation classes under the guidance of the Head of Modern

Languages.
- To familiarise him/herself with the format of the A-Level oral exams.
- To keep records of each student’s progress in conversation lessons. The assistant will not be expected to

write reports or attend parents’ consultations but may be asked to make a comment to teachers so that
reference can be made to pupils’ progress in reports or at parents’ consultations.

Professional standards
- To conduct himself/herself as a member of staff and to be aware of the example he/she should set to pupils.
- To arrive in class promptly.
- To familiarise himself/herself with the Code of Conduct.

briefing if it falls on a day when he/she is in school).

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- Please see the full job description for further information.