Teacher - EYFS

Aldar Education

To inspire, engage, and challenge students in their formative years by creating a nurturing and play-based learning environment. To deliver high quality teaching and inclusive learning experiences that spark curiosity, encourage creativity, and support students academic, social, and personal development.

Responsibilities

Key Task: To deliver lessons that inspire students to succeed in order to achieve the best possible outcomes.

Roles and responsibilities include:

Teamwork and collaboration

• To be a good communicator at all levels. Be committed to developing positive relationships with all members of the school community.
• Working alongside fellow teachers to plan engaging lessons that meet requirements of the curriculum.
• Liaising with colleagues and working flexibly.
• Working with parents to ensure the happiness and best academic outcomes for all children.
• Working cooperatively with curriculum support staff (where applicable) to support children s development.

Specific duties

Teaching and learning:

• Demonstrating a clear understanding of the EYFS Curriculum for effective implementation to match learning outcomes.
• Teaching using appropriate syllabus, materials, and schemes of work.
• Organizing the classroom provision and learning resources and creating displays to encourage a positive and engaging learning environment.
• Planning, preparing, and presenting sessions that cater to the needs of the whole ability range within the class.
• Supporting the Foundation Stage leaders in improving the development of teaching and learning across foundation stage.
• To plan lessons and sequences of lessons consistently and effectively, in the long, medium and short-term, to meet pupils individual learning needs.
• Creating a climate for learning that is conducive to delivering outstanding practice.
• Motivating students by delivering enjoyable and creative lessons that both challenges pupils and promotes critical thinking.
• Observing and assessing pupils in line with school assessments.
• Being reflective of the classroom provision, sessions taught, progress made, and adjusting environment, planning and curriculum to reflect this.
• Supporting SEN (POD), EAL and G&T students and ensuring that their needs are met through differentiation.
• Meeting with other professionals such as speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, and educational psychologists, if required, to best cater to diverse learning needs of pupils.
• Facilitating Hybrid / Distance Learning / Face to Face lessons.

Assessment and data:

• Taking responsibility for the progress of a class.
• Meeting requirements for the assessment and recording of student s development using Target Tracker.
• Using data provided by assessments to influence further planning, provision and intervention.
• Providing feedback to parents and carers on a student s progress at Parent Teacher Conferences and other meetings

Behaviour management and duties

• Follow the school s behaviour policy.
• Manage classes effectively, using approaches which are appropriate to students needs in order to inspire, motivate and challenge pupils.
• Maintain good relationships with pupils, exercise appropriate authority, and act decisively when necessary within the school s behavioural policy.
• Be a positive role model and demonstrate consistently the positive attitudes, values and behaviour, which are expected of pupils.
• Have high expectations of behaviour, promoting self-control and independence of all learners.
• Carry out duties as directed and within the school s policy.

Wider Professional Responsibilities

• To work as part of a curriculum action group, supporting planning, assessment, resources and special events linked to that team.
• Support in organizing and taking part in school events, outings and extra-curricular activities (ECAs) which may take place at weekends or after school hours.
• Communicate effectively with parents/carers with regards to student s achievements and well-being using school systems/processes such as CPOMS as appropriate.
• Make a positive contribution to the wider life and ethos of the school.