IB DP English Language and Literature Teacher

Job Titles:

• Teacher of English Language and Literature

Reports to: Head of Department

This job description should be read in conjunction with the teachers’ contract and any additional ISRM roles acquired.

Job Overview:  

A teacher is directly responsible to a subject area leader (HoD), co‐ordinator and/or the IB leaders as appropriate. This will involve the following:

Roles and Responsibilities:

Professional Support:

• Supporting the school leadership in achieving the vision, mission, values and aims of the school;
• Being a positive role model by setting high personal and professional expectations in learning and teaching, their own growth endeavour and administration;
• Developing clear personal and professional goals that are consistent with both the ISRM school wide action plans and IB MYP and IB Diploma requirements;
• Nurturing and promoting a culture of learning and by creating a strongly interactive, enjoyable and stimulating learning environment;
• Committing to an on‐going programme of personal and professional growth, both formally and informally.

Curriculum Planning:

• Putting into practice the school’s Teacher and Learning Strategy;
• Employing a wide variety of learning and teaching tools to make learning both effective and enjoyable;
• Ensuring curriculum documentation is recorded on Managebac including course outlines or unit of inquiry/unit of work planners;
• Ensuring the appropriate IB curriculum is delivered to the highest possible standards;
• Creating suitable assessment materials as appropriate;
• Seeking and acting on any purposeful opportunity to develop consistency and curriculum continuity between the three IB curriculum programmes;
• Seeking opportunities to develop cross‐curricular approaches specifically in reference to Global Contexts – Units of Work (MYP);
• Ensuring that all students are able to progress according to their ability;
• Maximising learning opportunities both within and outside the classroom through field trips, visiting speakers, varied teaching styles and resources;
• Establishing and monitoring clear homework expectations and providing meaningful feedback;
• Being actively involved in any relevant curriculum review process;
• Keeping abreast of current world wide and IBO educational practice through reading and research.

Promoting Assessment of Learning and Assessment for Learning:

• Putting into practice the whole school assessment policy;
• Developing and effectively using assessment criteria in line with the IBO requirements;
• Effectively using moderation and standardisation procedures to ensure the reliability and validity of the school’s grading systems;
• Effectively using external and internal data to help improve student learning;
• Effectively teaching all ISRM standards as indicated.  

Resourcing:

• Promoting the safe use of school facilities and resources;
• Reporting any maintenance or health and safety concerns directly to the relevant principal; 
• Using all school facilities and resources carefully and respectfully;
• Contributing resource ideas, in line with the school initiatives, to the relevant budget holder;
• Using local, national and international resources as appropriate;
• Promoting the use of appropriate technology.

Responsibility for Personnel:

• Ensuring a positive friendly professional working environment where all staff are
• Equally valued and are part of a team;
• Being punctual;
• Contributing to professional meetings, collaborative planning, activities and events;
• Working effectively in a transparent and collaborative manner;
• Keeping appropriate levels of confidentiality regarding students, staff and our community both now and in the future;
• Providing professional support for colleagues;
• Being flexible in order to help the school meet the needs of students;
• Following school administrative policies and procedures;
• Visiting colleagues’ classrooms to learn and to offer ideas and suggestions on classroom management and approaches to learning and teaching;
• Acting as a mentor for new staff members, if requested;
• Seeking opportunities to familiarise colleagues with current research in your areas of specialism;
• Supporting the orientation of new staff.

Student Support:

• Being accountable for the academic, social and emotional well‐being of children in your class;
• Undertaking a contributory role in student well‐being as either a homeroom teacher or assistant homeroom teacher;
• Ensuring new children transfer smoothly into the class and good relationships are developed with parents;
• Maintaining positive learning environments where students are actively and collaboratively engaged in learning;
• Maintaining calm and developing a strong ethos of respect in shared areas such as the stairs, corridors and dining room;
• Being observant, supportive and pro‐active while on duty to ensure quality break times for students in the hof, wintergarten and dining room;
• Maintaining accurate attendance records using IServ/ManageBac/Google Docs;
• Communicating positively and empathically with students on a personal basis,
• Listening to them and helping them whenever possible;
• Keeping appropriate levels of confidentiality regarding students, staff and our community both now and in the future;
• Being aware of all educational factors relevant to each student;
• Differentiating or appropriately scaffolding learning activities to ensure all students, including EAL students and those on the Learning Support registers, are fully catered for;
• Giving constructive, positive feedback to students through dialogue and marking of their work.
• Whole School Developments:
• Contributing to academic policy formation both inside and outside your areas of specialism;
• Collaborating with colleagues on curriculum planning and development;
• Attending and helping to organise events for students, parents or the wide community.

Communication within the School Community:

• By ensuring excellent lines of communication with all staff, parents and children;
• Attending all relevant academic and student well‐being meetings and collaborative planning sessions;
• Promoting positive public relations with the parents and the community;
• Keeping accurate, complete records of the progress of each student;
• Reporting student progress to parents through conferences and written reports;
• Using all the available technology provided by the school;
• Creatively displaying student work within classrooms and the shared areas of the school;
• Setting up and updating the class website weekly;
• Contributing to information letters to parents and the annual year book.

The successful candidates without an IB Category 1 training will be expected to complete one and write a course outline before February 2024.

Please send your application with supporting documents (CV, diplomas, references, certificates) to the attention of Drs. Tom Zijlstra to application@es-rm.eu