ALTERNATIVE TEACHER

Responsibilities:

• Read the supplied background history of a newly assigned student taking particular note of their needs. Onsite this will include all the other students at the centre.
• Attend an initial meeting and attempt to engage with the student making them feel comfortable in your presence.
• Write a risk assessment for the student reflecting their history and what you have learnt from them at the initial meeting. Visit any spaces where the education is due to take place and consider those environments within the risk assessment.
• Discuss with the Curriculum & Pathways Officer or Head of Centre the Individual Education Plan (IEP) and ensure you understand what curriculum you should be studying with the student.
• Prepare detailed, interesting and relevant lesson plans and schemes of work for the agreed curriculums. Tailor these to meet each student or class’ needs. These need to be available if requested.
• Teach specific programmes of study and where appropriate deliver qualifications (e.g. Entry level, Functional Skills, GCSE and Unit awards).
• Sign in and fully utilise the Lesson Tracker app. This includes checking in, recording the students’ attendance, checking out, scoring progress and engagement, writing a session report and submitting for every session you are timetabled for.
• Educate students in accordance with the school’s ethos of learning through creativity.
• Improve students’ skills in literacy and/or numeracy and build their confidence through creative and academic learning.
• Develop and create new interesting resources for delivering lessons.
• Keep in daily contact with the Education Support Officers or Head of Centre through e-mail, text and/or conversation regarding a student’s presence and progress.
• Arrive on time to offsite/onsite sessions at the agreed location or to a centre for the expected time.
• Be well presented and polite during work time especially when meeting students, parents, staff and professionals.
• Meet with professionals connected to your student(s) and attend educational reviews to discuss the progress of students if the need arises (paid at meeting rate if outside of teaching hours).
• Approve weekly timesheets in a timely fashion.
• To communicate any concerns regarding students to the education team through emails, phone calls or in person.
• To conduct individual student risk assessments including assessing the environment for learning and for any planned trips.
• To conduct baseline assessments and ongoing literacy and/or numeracy tests, in line with the national curriculum, to help assess the students’ development.
• To read and follow the assigned students’ individual education plan (IEP).
• Attend all weekly TCW training sessions/meetings that fall during the period that you are working on an assignment (paid at training rate).
• Write detailed half-termly/end of programme reports and any other interim reports as required.
• Prepare for and be supportive of lesson observations.
• Liaise with the Teaching and Learning team if you require additional support.
• To work in line with the TCW staff criteria in Teaching and Learning, Professionalism and Creativity.
• Attend termly appraisal sessions with your line manager - these are likely to take place after school (paid at meeting rate if outside of teaching hours).
• Report to the Designated Safeguarding Lead any safeguarding concerns that arise and follow any actions set.
• Lead and contribute to staff training as required.

Offsite

• Each assignment may require you to teach sessions of 2.5/3 hours per day to an individual student or to a small class.

Onsite

• Teachers working onsite are usually required to be full-time for the length of the assignment.
• To teach a minimum of 10 individual sessions per week as directed by the Head of Centre.
• To support an assigned student through lessons throughout the week and differentiate sessions to meet their needs where necessary.
• To monitor students during their breaks as directed by the Head of Centre.