Teacher of Maths
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a well-qualified, energetic and enthusiastic Teacher of Maths to join our ambitious and highly skilled Maths department. You will need to have the knowledge, skills and creativity to be an outstanding teacher, and the ability to teach your specialism to GCSE and A level.If you have a focus on raising student attainment and a passion for Maths and are looking to work in an environment that values the learning of students, we would welcome an application from you.
Main responsibilities and duties:
- Working within the Maths department to contribute to raising student achievement and the continued development of the department
- Teach the Maths curriculum across the ability range to years 7-13
- Teaching the Maths GCSE course at key stage 4
- Contribute to enrichment and intervention supports within the Maths department
- Applications from ECTs and experienced staff will be equally valued.
What the school offers its staff
Our campus is based in the heart of the city of Plymouth with stunning view of the Plymouth Sound and easy walking distance of the most accessible city waterfront. We encourage all young people to work hard and make the most of the opportunities they are given.Our amazing team of teachers and support staff themselves demonstrate and encourage a lifelong love of learning, both within and beyond our curriculum.
The vision for our campus is that we have high expectations and aspirations for all our students. Working at Stoke Damerel and Scott College you can expect the following:
- Highly visible and supportive leadership team
- Disruption free learning in all classrooms
- Hard working students
- Centralised planning and resources
- Centralised homework checked daily
- Centralised detentions
- A clear feed forward policy, incorporating live marking and whole class feed forward only
- Consistent lesson structure based on the Rosenshine principles
- Weekly, high quality CPD sessions focused on practice in the classroom
- Clear daily routines (Standard Operating Procedures – our SOPs) that all staff follow regardless of role
- Teacher desks include Pastore’s Perch & desk, visualiser and use of two computer screens
- Subject experts working together within a collaborative trust
- Commitment to personal developmental drop in every 3 weeks
- No report writing
- No hours of marking
- No individual lesson planning
- No graded lesson observations
- No excessive data collection
Commitment to safeguarding
Greenshaw Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All teaching and support members of staff must undertake the required pre-employment checks which include the uptake of references both professional and personal and a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.