Assistant Headteacher - Teaching and Learning

As a member of the David Nieper Academy leadership team, you will:

·         Think strategically while being able to deal with immediate challenges

·         Provide opportunities for staff to grow and develop

·         Set a high standard through personal example

·         Contribute in a variety of ways to the day to day running of the academy

General role responsibilities

·         To strategically lead all aspects of teaching and learning across the academy

·         To have an oversight, lead and organise the Continuous Professional Development programme across the academy 

·         To lead, monitor and review the teaching and learning quality assurance policies and procedures

·         To continually evaluate the effectiveness of our teaching and learning and provide the vision to drive its development

·         To monitor and evaluate learner experience within the classroom

·         To ensure that work related opportunities and employability skills are embedded within the curriculum and delivered to a high standard across all year groups

·         To contribute to the academy development plan and academy self-evaluation, providing regular reports to governors

·         To make a full contribution to the wider leadership and management of the academy

·         To have a teaching commitment of approximately 30% - any subject area will be considered

Specific responsibilities

Teaching and Learning academy strategy

Work with the Headteacher, Senior Leadership Team, Governors and Employer Partners to

·         Review and evaluate the current quality of teaching and learning across the academy

·         Review and evaluate the current teaching and learning academy strategy

·         Produce a clear action plan to enhance rapidly the quality of teaching and learning to in each year group and faculty, providing sustainable strategies that will allow future improvements

·         Ensure that the academy teaching and learning strategy supports the Christopher Nieper Education Trust (CNET) vision and supports the development of high-quality employability skills making sustainable links with our employer partners

·         Be responsible for the academy teaching and learning policy

Continuous Professional Development

·         To create, lead, monitor and evaluate the teaching and learning continuous professional development programme across the academy

·         To identify the key priorities in relation to continuous professional development needs

·         To design and lead high quality bespoke professional development

·         To oversee and build upon the existing programme of instructional coaching for teaching staff

·         To lead on and coordinate any teacher support plans to ensure rapid and sustained improvement in practice

·         To coordinate all aspects of the Academy’s Early Career Teacher induction and Initial Teacher Education programmes.

·         Effectively manage the continuous professional development budget

Quality assurance of teaching and learning

·         To lead and oversee the quality assurance of teaching and learning in a transparent manner to ensure that good practice is shared with all, and any areas of development identified are addressed promptly

·         To create a quality assurance calendar of activities to effectively evaluate the impact of CPD and assess the impact of teaching across the Academy

·         To lead teaching and learning reviews producing and implementing an appropriative action plan

·         To lead training of SLT and Heads of Faculty to ensure consistency of approach when quality assuring teaching and learning

·         To lead staff training to ensure that all are provided with adequate support, guidance, and advice regarding high quality teaching and learning

Teaching and learning development

·         To keep abreast of national and international developments in teaching and learning and share best practice with the SLT, Heads of Faculty, teaching staff and governors

·         To work in conjunction with Assistant Head Inclusion and other senior leaders to ensure that high quality teaching and learning supports the wider aims of the academy

Learner experience

·         To evaluate the effectiveness of teaching and learning from all stakeholder perspectives

·         To continuously seek learner feedback on the impact of teaching and learning

·         To work closely with parents to engage them fully in their children’s progress 

Employability skills

·         To work with the Assistant Headteacher for Personal Development and Employability:

o      To ensure that work related opportunities and employability skills are embedded within the curriculum and delivered to a high standard across all year groups

o      To work in partnership with employer partners and teachers to ensure that the academy teaching and learning has a clear focus on developing employability skills

Accountability

·         Be responsible for producing a teaching and learning development plan and relevant sections of the SEF

·         Lead and co-ordinate the SLT/ link governor teaching and learning meetings

·         Prepare and present reports on teaching and learning and performance management for governors and CEO as required.

Personal characteristics:

1.      Excellent classroom practitioner

2.      Hardworking

3.      Enthusiastic

4.      High levels of emotional intelligence

5.      Resilient

6.      Ability to inspire and lead others

7.      A strong team player

Solution focused, looking for positive outcomes