Teacher of Geography

The Role

To provide highly effective teaching of Humanities with a main specialism of Geography, contributing to the ongoing development of the geography curriculum and the Humanities Faculty. To be a full and contributing member of the Humanities Faculty and the Academy.

The Humanities Faculty currently encompasses a wide range of subjects including:

Key stage 3 & 4 & 5 Geography

Key stage 3 & 4 History (A level History in September 2024)

Key stage 3 & 4 RE core and GCSE

Key stage 3 & 4 & 5 PSHCE and Citizenship

Key stage 3 & 4 French

Key stage 4 & 5 Business Studies

Key stage 5 Finance

Key stage 4 &5 Health & Social Care

Key stage 5 Sociology

Key stage 5 Psychology

The Humanities Faculty at David Nieper Academy

The humanities faculty at David Nieper Academy includes geography, history, religious studies, MFL, PSHE/citizenship, Business Studies, Health & Social Care, sociology and psychology. Despite its wide variety of subjects, the faculty works very closely together and shares a common ethos when it comes to education. Our view is that every single young person – regardless of their background – is entitled to access the rich body of knowledge that characterises the disciplines we represent. We firmly believe that it is from this rigorous knowledge-led foundation that students are best-equipped to succeed in the applied learning opportunities that we are committed to providing here at David Nieper Academy. As such, successful candidates would be joining a faculty that:

• Is committed to developing innovative, research-informed teaching based on knowledge of how children learn
• Celebrates explicit instruction as an approach to teaching that supports the fostering of students’ knowledge acquisition, independence and criticality skills
• Is self-reflective and constantly striving to improve the key principles of our practice (namely: review, acquire, question, model, practice, assess and feedback)
• Is newly and fully resourced after a recent curriculum over-haul
• Has a ‘warm but strict’ approach to discipline where expectations are high
• Is highly supportive and enjoys a strong sense of collegiality and humour

Overall, this is an immensely exciting time to join this thriving and growing faculty on our drive to improve results. Our knowledge-led approach is proving to be more popular than ever amongst students. For example, geography continues to be a very popular GCSE option in the academy, and we are actively marketing for our A-level course (first Year 13 students are completing the course this year), whilst History, Religious Studies and Business began the current academic year with their largest GCSE intakes in a number of years. If you have any further questions about our Faculty, please do get in touch.

Key Responsibilities

·         To teach Geography across key stage 3, 4 & 5 contributing to the planning and organisation of the curriculum

·         To teach PSHCE and potentially other humanities subjects

·         To be a form tutor

·         To contribute to the co-curricular life of the school

·         Participate in the academy Performance Management arrangements

Teaching and Learning

·         Plan and teach engaging and challenging lessons that pave the way for success in school and life

·         Meet the needs of all learners by consistently planning and teaching carefully differentiated lessons

·         Contribute to Faculty planning and the creation and updating of schemes of work

·         Use regular, measurable and significant assessments of teaching

·         Set and mark appropriate homework

·         Complete all reporting on time

·         Closely monitor progress and attainment of all students and use it to inform teaching

·         Provide content for and, where necessary, deliver high quality student interventions with direction from the Head of Faculty

·         Work to ensure that all students achieve or exceed targets

·         Maintain regular and productive communication with parents about their child’s progress, behaviour and development, including attending after school parent meetings as required

Other

·         Undertake professional development as agreed with academy leaders

·         Perform additional duties and tasks required for the effective operation of the school as directed by the Headteacher.

Benefits

·         Ongoing training, support and mentoring will be provided

·         Free access to Heath Assured Employee Assistance Programme

·         Free onsite Parking

·         Generous discount at the David Nieper Ltd factory shop