Computing Teacher

**About St. Julian's School**:
Founded in 1932, we are a highly successful, non-selective 3-18 British international school with a reputation for academic excellence. We currently have just over 1,200 students from over 50 different nationalities. The School has three sections: Primary, Secondary, and Portuguese. The Secondary Section is four-form entry and has 630 students.

At St. Julian's, we believe in a holistic education and expect our teachers to make an active contribution to the pastoral and extra-curricular life of the school. We broadly follow the National Curriculum for England leading to IGCSEs and the IB Diploma Programme.

Google Apps for Education is used across the whole school as a learning and administration platform and all teaching staff are given their own MacBooks Air.

We are accredited by CIS (Council of International Schools), COBIS (Council of British International Schools) and NEASC (New England Association of Schools and Colleges). Our Head is an International Member of HMC (Heads' Conference).

**Teacher job description (Heading 2)**:
**Core purpose**:
To facilitate the learning of students and promote the effective development of all individuals in our learning community. Our learning ethos is based on our aim to establish a framework for students and teachers to be engaged and challenged, for parents to be assured and excited by the opportunities we provide to ensure that our students develop the attributes which will allow them to become the compassionate, curious, collaborative communicators with the courage to be the active citizens the world needs.

**Learning**:

- To mentor and support students in their learning
- To develop a personalised approach to learning that enables every child to succeed and understand the diverse learning capacities of students
- To develop necessary intervention in and out of the classroom where a child is not making expected progress
- To plan appropriate sequences of lessons to support student learning
- To develop appropriate ongoing assessments to enhance student learning
- Use a variety of teaching strategic fundamental to school pedagogy in ways that stimulate learning and inspire students
- Integrate technology to enhance learning

**Wellbeing**:

- To work with tutors and pastoral leaders to ensure that student wellbeing is paramount
- To liaise with the Safeguarding leads and complete the necessary referral forms if a child is deemed at risk
- Promote intercultural understanding and respect for diversity among all students.

**Professional growth**:

- To identify areas of potential growth each year and commit to developing oneself in this area
- To visit other classrooms to enable sharing of good practice
- To invite peers into classroom to enable sharing of good practice
- To participate fully in professional development opportunities in and out of school
- To initiate and work on opportunities to develop own practice related to the learning essentials.
- To share professional learning with colleagues.

**Teamwork**:

- To collaborate as part of a team to produce sequences of learning
- To support other colleagues to grow and develop.

**Personal strengths**:

- Displays empathy and understanding for the diverse learning capacities of students and designs lessons accordingly
- Promotes intercultural understanding and respect for diversity among all students
- Uses a variety of teaching strategies fundamental to school pedagogy in ways that stimulate learning and inspire students: project and enquiry based learning, collaborative methodologies, interdisciplinary approaches, discussion, reflection and sound instructional teaching.
- Integrates technology into teaching and learning to enhance research and media literacy, facilitate collaborative work and consolidate digital citizenship protocols among students
- Demands honesty from students in their approach to academic work and respect in their social intercourse
- Encourages students to take responsibility for their education by showing them how best they may reflect on their learning. Set high expectations which inspire, motivate and and challenge pupils
- Provides opportunities for the student voice to be heard through welcoming risk taking and divergent and innovative thinking
- Makes a significant contribution to the pastoral life of the school
- Makes a significant contribution to the wider curriculum of the school.

**Person specification**:
**Essentials**:

- A recognised teaching qualification, for example, a PGCE or a BEd
- At least three years’ experience in the UK (preferably), or experience teaching Computing to Key Stage 3
- Excellent written and spoken English
- A commitment to professional growth and development
- Excellent IT skills to support teaching and learning
- Enthusiasm that inspires others
- Positivity, perseverance and a good sense of humour.

**Benefits**:
We will provide
- A competitive salary and benefits package
- Medical and life insurance
- A profes