About The Role
Key responsibilities for the role include:
- Live the Nova Pioneer values and beliefs
- Actively engage with staff, students, and parents between 7am and 5pm daily
- Work collaboratively with the resident teacher to deliver impactful and engaging enquiry-based lessons
- With the resident teacher, co-create a classroom environment that is conducive to learning, is developmentally appropriate to the maturity and interests of the students, and maintain an organized and focused learning environment
- Fully participate in opportunities for professional growth including daily team meetings and reflections, weekly professional development meetings, instructional coaching, and organisation wide learning and reflection
- Work collaboratively with the resident teacher to conduct ongoing assessment of student progress. Use assessment data to adjust instructional content and delivery techniques accordingly
- Infuse joy and passion for learning into lessons so that students are excited about and invested in their academic excellence
- Help to set and communicate rigorous and ambitious goals for all students and provide student feedback so they internalize it
- Attend weekly feedback meetings with resident teachers and Deans to enhance teaching practices
- Participate in a variety of collaborative teams and committees, fulfil supervision duties as assigned including some morning, evening and weekend events
- Coordinate, plan and lead an after school co-curricular activity for a variety of ages
- Plan, implement and supervise the curriculum for the class in accordance with school policies and philosophy.
- Work with the resident teacher as a team, being respectful of each person’s contributions and style. Going directly to the co-worker involved (rather than another co-worker) when concerns or conflicts surface.
- Teaching
- Leads ~20-30% (1-3) core content lessons. When not leading a lesson, supervises students
- Manages student behavior. Participates in following-up with persistent misbehaviors
- Execute necessary accommodations and modifications for the growth and success of all students
- Provide feedback to the curriculum design team about lessons you teach and the overall structure of a unit to ensure revisions are made
- Administration
- Keep the classroom neat and tidy
- Alongside the resident teacher, prepare materials for lessons
- Facilitate parent communication in collaboration with the resident teacher
- Attend scheduled parent conferences
- Participate in rotation duty (student arrival, lunch, playtime and student dismissal)
- Document student’s academic work
About You
Skills and Qualifications required:
- TSC certification and Degree in Education/ Diploma in ECDE/ P1 Diploma
- 1 - 2 years of teaching experience
- You have good working skills with technology such as Word, Powerpoint and Excel
- You are a great communicator. You are able to provide clear and effective written and verbal communication.
- You are flexible and open to change - you handle uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity well.
- You are a problem solver - you are proactive in identifying issues and address these thoroughly by making an effort to find appropriate solutions.
- You are excited about our organizational culture—and in particular, you are fired up to challenge yourself by embracing mutual vulnerability and a firehose of feedback.
- You have a desire to further develop your leadership skills and apply them to transform the lives of African youth