Teacher of Law New

One of Teaching Personnel's Secondary schools in Northampton is now recruiting for a Teacher of Law.

If you are ambitious, inspirational, creative, open-minded and want to be part of our success then we want to hear from you. We are looking for an excellent Teacher of Law to join an excellant team. As a school, they are driven to provide an education that is ambitious, broad and knowledge-rich; one that equips our pupils to live full, rich and successful lives.

The school strives to provide our young people with access to a world-class education and enrichment experiences. Their students benefit from a wealth of opportunities to develop, learn and lead, in the classroom and on cultural visits, in the sports arena, in music, performance and arts. The education and experiences we offer equip our young people with the leadership skills, team spirit, resilience, and confidence to become outstanding citizens.

About the role

Permanent role, part time 0.4 FTE

As the school's teacher of Law you will join our Law department. You will be responsible for:

• Setting high expectations for all learners
• Teaching our ambitious curriculum to our students in Years 7 to 13
• Teaching excellent lessons for our students which are well prepared and planned
• Assessing students' progress and adapting teaching to ensure that you are meeting the needs of all learners
• Contributing to our curriculum planning with our Law team
• Love your subject. Stay invested in it, taking your own professional development seriously
• Teach students according to their educational needs, including the setting and marking/assessment of work to be carried out by the student in school and elsewhere
• To plan lessons in accordance with school policy to ensure all students make effective progress
• To assess, record and report on the attendance, progress, development and attainment of students and to keep such records as are required
• Provide and/or contribute to oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual students and groups of students taught or tutored
• Ensure that ICT, Literacy, Numeracy and subject specialism(s) are reflected in the teaching/learning experience of students
• Undertake a designated programme of teaching
• To ensure a high-quality learning experience for students which meets internal and external quality standards
• To prepare and update subject materials

About the Academy

At this Secondary school, we ensure that all teachers are able to draw on the sources of scholarly authority and reservoir of thought and practice that have been developed within their specialist subject communities though our Trust- wide subject communities. This involves engagement for teachers with their wider subject education community through subject associations, subject education journals, subject-specific CPD on curriculum development and teaching. It also involves refreshing and constant renewal of subject knowledge, through reading and discussing scholarship, engaging in contemporary debates, and developing our own practice as teachers.

Subject communities are central to the schools vision for curriculum and teacher development, whereby each subject community is made up of subject specialist teachers deeply engaged with curricular questions, renewing and holding ownership of the Trust-wide curriculum and sustaining their own subject expertise. Through Trust-wide subject community meetings and in-school department meetings, all subject teachers have responsibility and involvement with the Trust-wide curriculum development. We work collaboratively in our curriculum decision-makin

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