Job Description: Teacher of Design and Technology
Teacher (Ysgol Friars’ Teachers’ Pay SMS/SUPS )
What follows is a list of responsibilities which a teacher may be required to undertake. It may
be subject to renegotiation should there be changes within the Senior Leadership Team. It
further represents a list of responsibilities which cannot be carried out simultaneously and is
therefore subject to prioritisation, delegation or to the varying demands of different periods
of the academic year. It is also subject to the terms of the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions
of Service document which apply to teachers.
Management
The Headteacher is responsible for the deployment and management of all staff employed to
work at the school and his authority may be delegated to other members of the Senior
Leadership Team. On a day to day basis, you are directly accountable to the relevant Head of
Faculty/Department for your teaching duties.
General Teaching Duties - Outcomes to Be Achieved:
1. You should seek to support the school’s attempt to secure the best possible attendance
and:
• Ensure that pupils in your group are registered promptly and accurately
• Secure the best possible attendance of pupils in your registration group.
2. If acting as a registration tutor, you should ensure, as far as possible, that pupils leave
registration prepared for the school day and:
• Ensure that pupils leave your registration period dressed in accordance with
school uniform policy.
• Following the “Clean Slate” procedures.
3. Also in this role, you should promote pupil achievement by:
• Passing on positive gossip from staff briefing.
• Following the school rewards procedures
• Recording achievements on achievement log and passing on any particularly
noteworthy to the relevant Head of Year or Progress Leader.
4. In carrying out general supervisory duties you should seek to promote pupil safety and
welfare by having due regard to appropriate procedures and in particular:
• Be on site by 8.45 a.m. and not leave before 3.25 p.m. unless working shorter
part-time hours and/or granted permission to arrive later or leave earlier by a
member of SLT
• Arrive punctually at lessons, ensuring that pupils line up in an orderly manner
before entering and that they remain standing until told to sit and:
o Teach or supervise them for the duration of the lesson or such part of
the lesson as may be designated.
o Not allow pupils to leave the class unless in accordance with school
procedures and only after providing them with corridor passes.
o Not dismissing the class before the end of lesson bell (but see below);
• Be at your designated duty location by 8.45, 10.50 and at the buses by 3.15
(bringing pupils from lesson 6 with you if necessary) on the day when you are
designated to undertake duty.
• Inform your Duty Team Leader if for any reason (other than unforeseen
absence from school) you are unable to carry out the above duties.
5. In carrying out your teaching duties, you should seek to secure the highest possible
standards of achievement and behaviour of pupils in your classes by:
• Ensuring pupils adhere to school uniform rules
• Teaching in accordance with the agreed Faculty/Departmental scheme of work;
• Planning and delivering lessons which have due regard to the school’s teaching
and learning policy
• Plan and deliver effective lessons in line with the new CfW. Lessons should reflect
the 4 Purposes and the What Matters statements in the AOLE.
• Assessing pupils’ work and recording and reporting on their progress in
accordance with the school and Faculty/Departmental assessment policy and
marking policy
• Assessing pupils’ work and recording and reporting on their progress in
accordance with the school and Faculty/Departmental assessment policy and
marking policy
• Setting appropriate homework
• Ensuring that pupils make appropriate use of the homework diary
• Preparing pupils for any relevant examination course followed by the
Faculty/Department, having due regard to the Faculty/Department Scheme of
work, the examination specification and the rules of the examination board;
• Following the requirements contained in any IEPs/PSPs relevant to pupils in
your classes.
• Using the school’s underachievement and behaviour recording systems in
accordance with any guidance issued by the Headteacher.
• Following the school’s pupil conduct policy and other procedures to promote
good behaviour;
• Following any policies or procedures in relation to the teaching of pupils with
additional learning needs (ALN);
• Following any policies or procedures in relation to the teaching of able and
talented pupils.
• Seeking, as far as is reasonably possible, to secure parental co-operation to
sustain and improve the levels of their children’s achievement by using the
school’s reporting procedures, by the homework diary and through attendance
of parents’ evenings
• develop curriculum content to ensure that all learners have opportunities to
develop and refine the skills set out in the Literacy and Numeracy Framework
• integrate literacy and numeracy into their teaching – whatever the subject
matter
• Inform discussions with parents/carers, learners and other teachers about
learner performance
• help learners with their own self-assessment activities and planning for
learning
• monitor, assessment and report on individual learner performance
• identify learners who may benefit from intervention or who are working
beyond age-related expectations
6. You should promote the pastoral care and welfare of your pupils and in particular you
should seek to:
• Be vigilant for any signs of abuse or neglect and report these to the Designated
Safeguarding Person, Mrs Allison Jamieson, Assistant Headteacher or the
Deputy Safeguarding Persons, Miss Clare Mullen, Safeguarding Officer or a
member of SLT
• Seek to assist and support pupils with any pastoral problems and refer on to
the Pupil Coordinator or Head of Key Stage
• Be aware of any pupils for whom you are responsible who appear on the
school’s medical list and familiarize yourself with the care plans of the small
minority who have more severe conditions in order that you can recognize the
onset of the condition and secure appropriate assistance.
• Deliver the “Thought for the Day” on any day where pupils are in your charge
as group tutor for a designated tutor period
• Bring pupils to assembly promptly on designated days and remain with them
for the duration (unless withdrawing on grounds of conscience or belief from
any part which contains an act of worship)
• Follow the procedures for organising trips
7. You should develop your skills as a teacher by:
• Participating proactively in arrangements for your professional development.
• Reflecting on your own practice.
• Sharing good practice with others and contributing to Faculty/ Departmental
Schemes of Work and resources any examples of good practice of your own.
8. You should support and foster the collaborative working of any team within the school
of which you are a part.
9. You should assist the work of any faculty or department in which you teach by
attending scheduled meetings and contributing good practice to develop the work of
the faculty/department
10. You should seek to secure the health and safety of yourself and others by:
• Having due regard to the school’s health and safety policy
• Familiarizing yourself with procedures for fire safety
• Reporting accidents and dangerous incidents in accordance with school
procedures
11. In general, you should:
• Comply with school policies and act in accordance with guidance and
procedures issued by the Headteacher.
• Keep the allocated teaching room(s) in good order and report any defects
according to school procedures
• Follow relevant personnel procedures such as those relating to sickness and
leave of absence
• Undertake any duties as may be reasonably allocated by the Headteacher,
following appropriate consultation, which fall within the duties set out in the
School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions of Service Document.
The job description and allocation of particular responsibilities may be amended by
agreement from time to time.
