Educators and Academic Professionals

What are you going to do

• Maintain a high degree of curriculum-instruction-assessment congruence and contribute to the evaluation and development of curriculum as requested
• In cooperation with colleagues teaching the same material, prepare short and long-term plans that reflect learning objectives and student ability, and which incorporate a variety of instructional strategies and engaging learning activities
• Use information obtained from assessments to develop and revise instructional strategies and activities
• Organize and maintain a neat and attractive classroom to enhance the learning environment
• Coordinate with library, administrative, IT, and maintenance staff for needed services
• Communicate clear expectations and objectives for behavior and learning, as well as criteria for assessment of learning achievement
• Use formative and summative assessment strategies to support student learning
• Submit grades and comments, and document student progress as required
• Identify individual students’ learning needs and adjust instructional strategies as appropriate
• Provide frequent and constructive feedback to students
• Communicate clear classroom rules and respectful standards of behavior, hold students accountable, and apply consistent and fair consequences
• Attend required meetings and serves on committees as requested
• Participate in professional development activities and keep abreast of developments in subject matter area
• Participate in self-assessment activities and integrate evaluation feedback from administrators into planning to improve teaching performance
• Conduct workshops or presentations to share expertise and information from professional development activities
• Provide a safe, secure and well-organized environment that encourages the development of children as independent learners and considerate members of the school community
• Take responsibility for the safety, education and social development of each child in the class
• Provide a role model for the development of children’s social behavior and attitudes
• Work in partnership with parents in providing a quality education experience for all the children.
• Along with all members of the staff, undertake responsibilities as detailed in the school’s Health and Safety Manual.
• Accept additional responsibilities in respect of organizing and supervising co-curricular activities.
• Actively promote the mission, vision and values of the school.
• Accept reasonable additional responsibilities as required by the Director.
• Be responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young person’s according to PUE and regulatory safeguarding requirements including but not limited to the provisions of the PUE Child Protection Policy.
• Other reasonable tasks as assigned by supervisor
• Evaluates different options when solving problems
• Refrains from drawing conclusions in the absence of clear evidence, takes time to collect facts before developing a solution
• Considers the medium term as well as immediate short-term impact of outcomes and actions
• Demonstrates an awareness of the impact of preferred solution on other projects / related problems

Essential skills and knowledge