KG Grade Leader - Dubai School

at  TaaleemDubai

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

Education: A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject area and recognised teaching qualification or license
Experience: A minimum of three years’ teaching experience, previous middle leadership experience preferred
Competencies: A sound understanding of the relevant curriculum, leadership and mentoring skills.

PRIMARY PURPOSE OF JOB:

A Grade Leader, main duty is to provide outstanding pastoral care for all students in a designated grade group, ensuring that all students in the designated grade are fully supported, their needs are met and that they succeed academically.

• To lead a team of Homeroom Teachers to ensure that the quality of pastoral care for the designated grade is outstanding.
• To ensure that the Homeroom and Moral Education programme is of a high quality and supports the wellbeing, development, and academic success of the students in the designated grade
• To manage any delegated budgets effectively and responsibly.
• To ensure high standards of behaviour and attendance for the designated grade, including reporting on standards, patterns and trends of behaviour and attendance.
• To be proactive in identifying behaviour and attendance concerns and implement effective strategies to address the identified concerns and raise standards of attendance and behaviour in the designated grade
• To ensure that all relevant school policies and procedures are adhered to and applied consistently across the designated grade.
• To have a genuine interest in the students in the designated grade and develop positive relationships with them to best support their individual needs.
• To maintain regular contact with parents, updating them on grade and student specific concerns and celebrations.
• To meet with parents, where appropriate, to ensure students in the designated year group needs are met and concerns are dealt with effectively.
• To ensure that student support plans such as are up to date and are effective in providing students with the best support for their individual needs.
• To attend and lead meetings and forums in line with the responsibilities such as case conferences, Individual Needs Panels, Homeroom teacher meetings and pastoral team meetings.
• To coordinate academic interventions for students in the designated grade
• To liaise with relevant staff regarding students of concern
• To attend and lead school events relating to the students in the designated year group, such as Information Days, PTCs, new student induction events.
• To contribute to the assessment and reporting program, in line with school policy
• To assist management of requests for student leave
• To contribute to, and manage, assembly and school supervision duty rotas as requested.
• To keep up-to-date with current developments concerning pastoral care of students in order to ensure best practice and high quality pastoral provision.
• To contribute to the whole school professional development and lecture programme as appropriate.

TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Representing areas of knowledge, understanding and skills, in all their richness, to students taught
• Engaging and motivating students to achieve at levels that are beyond their expectations and previous limits
• Using excellent subject knowledge, pedagogic and interpersonal skills to enthuse students and enable students to enjoy learning
• Planning lessons that take full account of students’ individual learning needs, as well as their individual learning styles, preferences, and capabilities
• Encouraging and enabling all students to become effective, confident, and independent life-long learners
• Assess, record and report on the development, progress, and attainment of the students in her/his classes
• Guide students to set targets to improve on their previous ‘best’ and give regular feedback to students to support next steps in learning
• Maintaining excellent professional relationships with colleagues by making a wider professional contribution to the continuing improvement of the school
• Planning and delivery of a programme of learning opportunities and activities to enrich and enhance the taught curriculum
• Communicate open and professionally with parents on a regular basis about the attainment and progress of their child
• Maintain high levels of confidentiality when speaking to parents and external parties
• Model good practice of academic honesty
• Contribute actively to department discussions in meeting
• Create, organise and modify programmes of study for specific Grades
• Contribute to and plan after-school activities as required
• Participate in arrangements for further training and professional development as a teacher