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Job Description
- To provide professional leadership and management to ensure high quality teaching strategies, effective and efficient use of resources, and raised standards of learning and achievement for all students in the subject area.
- To play a major role in the development of school progress and attainment. To inform the school management of students’ performance and future priorities and targets for the subject.
Knowledge
- Have expert knowledge of the subject area.
- Know and establish school’s objectives, priorities, and action plans. Receive and systematically file official documentation.
- Ensure that teachers are aware of statutory requirements.
- Organize curriculum meetings for teachers, parents, and school management.
- Identify needs in one’s own subject in relation to the overall needs of the school.
- Understand how the subject contributes to school priorities and to the overall education and achievement of all students.
- Be a role model to colleagues in the department in terms of punctuality, reliability, diligence, effectiveness, and professionalism.
Job Requirements
Develop effective links with the local community, such as businesses and industries to extend the subject and enhance students’ understanding through real life applications.
- Communicate effectively with parents and the school community and share/recommend any necessary interventions, modifications, or adaptations.
- Manage time effectively by balancing teaching demands, subject management, and involvement in school improvement.
- Help teachers achieve good working relationships with students.
- Establish a healthy working environment among teachers through improvement of team work, and mutual support, delegation of tasks, and developing an acceptance of accountability.
- Periodically appraise teachers following school’s policy and standards.
- Good communication with other departments and other members of school management to ensure consistency across all subjects.
- Be available to answer parent and school management questions and keep records of all meetings that take place.
- Check the presence/absence of teachers and ensure that the proper material is being given to the substitute teacher in conjunction with the supervisor.
- Prepare weekly schedules of classroom observation and post-observation feedback sessions.
- Ensure the appropriateness of homework assignments before they are shared with students and parents on a weekly basis.
- Meet weekly with the School Academic Counselor to report and discuss all matters concerning the department (students’ progress, assessments, teachers, class observations, resources, use and analysis of data, recommendations, etc.)