Kindergarten Teacher

**Female Kindergarten (KG) Teacher**

Kindergarten Teachers at Beech Hall School will be responsible for delivering a bespoke approach to learning underpinned by our Beech Hall Tapestry. The Tapestry emphases the significance of developing students’ health and wellbeing, their mindset and leadership skills in addition to promoting the importance being globally aware, entrepreneurial, digitally literate, and sustainable. Teachers will be supported to deliver a relevant and contemporary approach to teaching and learning which empowers students to lead their own learning and development. All educational staff will have access to excellent resourcing and will join a team of highly collaborative and creative colleagues.

**Accountability**

Line managed by the Director of Learning and Teaching

**Core Responsibilities**:

- **Subject Knowledge**_
- Have a degree in the area you will be responsible for teaching, or a similar or related degree.
- Demonstrate cultural sensitivity and an awareness of the expectations, roles, and responsibilities for educational professionals in the gulf region.
- Demonstrate an awareness of how to manage safeguarding and child protection issues.
- Demonstrate evidence of ongoing professional development.
- Model and take responsibility for promoting high standards of communication, collaboration, curiosity, and creativity.
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of the importance of developing literacy skills across all curriculum areas.
- **Curriculum Design, Adaptation and Assessment**_
- Embrace an innovative approach to curriculum planning and pedagogical implementation.
- Plan learning that makes explicit connections between the six strands of the Beech Hall Tapestry and the international curriculum adopted at our school to extend learning opportunities for all students.
- Demonstrate an awareness of how planning should take account of local, regional, and global matters.
- Plan, create and develop exciting and engaging learning opportunities that enhance students’ knowledge, skills and learning habits across all areas of learning.
- Demonstrate skills in planning thematic and cross-curricular units of learning.
- Demonstrate skills of adaptive planning and differentiation to ensure all students are challenged and supported.
- Plan for the effective use of digital technologies and ICT in support of learning and teaching.
- Plan for effective use of learning resources which optimise learning.
- Engage in ongoing, reflective, and critical review of planning.
- Assess, record and report on the development, progress, and attainment of students in line with school policy.
- Link planned outcomes and formative assessment opportunities to ensure that there is a deep understanding of next steps in learning.
- Use internal tracking systems to monitor and report on students’ progress and attainment.
- Communicate clearly and regularly with parents regarding students’ holistic progress and attainment.
- **Learning and Teaching**_
- Facilitate and encourage bespoke high-quality learning which provides students with the opportunity to achieve their full potential.
- Create and nurture a positive and inclusive learning environment which supports high expectations and a purposeful atmosphere.
- Treat students with respect, building relationships rooted in trust and at all times, observing proper boundaries appropriate to a teacher’s professional position.
- Provide students with regular written and oral feedback and encourage them to reflect and respond to their feedback.
- Promote a love of learning and children’s intellectual curiosity.
- Ensure that all learning is engaging and is responsive to students, considering their pace of learning, their strengths, their interests, and their need for choice.
- Embrace the school’s approach to inclusion and innovation.
- Support all children to behave with integrity, respect, and compassion.
- Have an understanding of the importance of ensuring a smooth transition between grade groups and classes.
- Place children central to the purpose of learning.
- Consider the ideas, thoughts and suggestions of all students and act upon these, accordingly, challenging appropriately.
- Make effective use of Teaching Assistants and Learning Support Assistants to support students’ learning.
- Ensure positive behaviour for learning for all students in line with the school’s policy.
- **Collaboration and Community**_
- Regularly reflect on and critically evaluate your own teaching and the effectiveness of lessons and approaches to teaching.
- Be open minded to coaching and appraisal, taking on board praise and dialogue around development.
- Collaborate with colleagues across the team to develop best practice, share ideas and work cohesively to bring out the best in every member of the community.
- Work in partnership with all academic support staff and internal and external specialists who support students’ learning and development in the school.
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