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The Black Country NQT Pool 2008/09 Dive Right In - "Job Opportunities have never been so good" |
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PROFESSIONAL
DUTIES
The following duties shall be deemed to be included in the professional duties which a teacher (other than a Headteacher) may be required to perform: 1 Teaching:In each case having regard to the curriculum for the school: 1.1 planning and preparing courses and lessons; 1.2 teaching, according to their educational needs, the pupils assigned to him, including the setting and marking of work to be carried out by the pupil in school and elsewhere; 1.3 assessing, recording and reporting on the development, progress and attainment of pupils; 2 Other activities:2.1 promoting the general progress and well-being of individual pupils and of any class or group of pupils assigned to him; 2.2 providing guidance and advice to pupils on education and social matters and on their further education and future careers, including information about sources of more expert advice on specific questions; making relevant records and reports. 2.3 making records of and reports on the personal and social needs of pupils; 2.4 communicating and consulting with the parents of pupils; 2.5 communicating and co-operating with persons or bodies outside the school; 2.6 participating in meetings arranged for any of the purposes described above; 3 Assessment and Reports:providing or contributing to oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual pupil and groups of pupils; 4 Appraisal:participating in arrangements made in accordance with The Education (School Teacher Appraisal) Regulations 1991 (38) for the appraisal of his performance and that of other teachers; 5 Review: Further training and development:5.1 reviewing, from time to time, his methods of teaching and programmes of work; and 5.2 participating in arrangements for his further training and professional development as a teacher 6 Educational methods:advising and co-operating with the Headteacher and other teachers (or any one or more of them) on the preparation and development of courses of study, teaching materials, teaching programmes, methods of teaching and assessment and pastoral arrangements; 7 Discipline, health and safety:maintaining good order and discipline among the pupils and safe-guarding their health and safety, both when they are authorised to be on the School premises and when they are engaged in authorised school activities elsewhere; 8 Staff Meetings:participating in meetings at the School which relate to the curriculum for the School or the administration or organisation of the School, including pastoral arrangements; 9 Cover:9.1 subject to paragraph 9.2, supervising and so far as practicable teaching any pupils whose teacher is not available to teach them: 9.2 subject to the exceptions in paragraph 9.3, no teacher shall be required to provide such cover: (a) after the teacher who is absent or otherwise not available has been so for three or more consecutive working days; or (b) where the fact that the teacher would be absent or otherwise not available for a period exceeding three consecutive working days was known to the maintaining Authority or, in the case of a Grant-Maintained or Grant-Maintained Special School, or a School which has a delegated budget and whose local management scheme delegates to the Governing Body the relevant responsibility for the provision of supply teachers, to the Governing Body for two or more working days before the absence commenced; 9.3 The exceptions are: (a) he is a teacher employed wholly or mainly for the purpose of providing such cover ('a supply teacher'); or (b) the Authority or the Governing Body (as the case may be) have exhausted all reasonable means of providing a supply teacher to provide cover without success; or (c) he is a full-time teacher at the School but has been assigned by the Headteacher in the time-table to teach or carry out other specified duties (except cover) for less then 75% of those hours 10 Public Examinations:participating in arrangements for preparing pupils for public examinations and in assessing pupils for the purposes of such examinations; recording and reporting such assessments; and participating in arrangements for pupils' presentation for and supervision during such examinations: in the week during which pupils are taught at the school; 11 Management:11.1 contributing to the selection for appointment and professional development of other teachers and non-teaching staff, including the induction and assessment of new and probationary teachers: 11.2 co-ordinating, or managing, the work of other teachers; 11.3 taking such part as may be required of him in the review, development and management of activities relating to the curriculum, organisation and pastoral functions of the School; 12 Administration:12.1 participating in administrative and organisational tasks related to such duties as are described above, including the management or supervision of persons providing support for the teachers in the School and the ordering and allocation of equipment and materials; and 12.2 attending assemblies, registering the attendance of pupils and supervising pupils, whether these duties are to be performed before, during or after school sessions. 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