Music Teacher

Job Description

Subject Teachers Vision Statement: Inspiring Minds, Creating Leaders

Mission Statement: Our mission is to ensure every child experiences amazing learning, loves school and makes great progress.

Diyar Teachers will:

1. Work tirelessly to ensure that every child makes as much progress as possible.
2. Plan lessons which are active, collaborative, cognitive, engaging, memorable, fun, and relevant.
3. Value student happiness and school connectedness.
4. Work closely with parents to guide the learning process.
5. Provide a first-class international education with a local flavor.

Safeguarding: Diyar Schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff, parents, governors, and volunteers to share this commitment. We have a number of policies and procedures in place that contribute to our safeguarding commitment, including our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy which can be viewed in the Policies section of our website.

Main Objective: To ensure high quality learning for all children/students in the class so that they develop excellent learning skills, become independent learners, and make the best progress they can.

Role Responsibilities

Key Responsibility 1: Quality of Learning

• Ensure that you understand the school’s definition of learning and demonstrate a determined focus on ‘amazing learning’ in your lessons.
• Use learning observation tools (Looking for Learning) to identify learning, where the best learning is happening, and where there are concerns about learning so that you can plan lessons.
• Contribute fully to the Amazing Learning principles by sharing amazing learning from your class.
• Link findings in learning to student progress using AfL data and summative data so that every student makes the best progress they can.
• Identify, with other teachers, any gaps in learning and take measures to close the gaps.
• Be as innovative as possible when planning learning experiences to keep levels of engagement high.
• Ensure high-level and scaffolded questioning to move learning on.
• Ensure students are challenged in their learning and exposed to inquiry, research, and use of technology in their learning.
• Ensure teacher talk is 20% (maximum) and student talk is 80%.
• Use ICT to enhance learning on a day-to-day basis.

Key Responsibility 2: Conditions for Learning

• Build the most positive relationships with all students and their parents to ensure learning is successful.
• Observe conditions for learning in colleagues’ lessons, share ideas, and evaluate what improves learning and what impedes learning.
• Create a classroom environment in which students feel safe to take risks and challenge themselves and others.
• Follow the display and environment policy to ensure learning is visible.

Key Responsibility 3: Developing Learning in and Beyond Classroom

• Provide clear, honest, and balanced feedback to students on their learning in lessons and in shared areas (as per learning observation policy).
• Guide and support students through a range of learning situations and activities (e.g., individual, paired, group, class) to develop excellent levels of independence and skills.
• Celebrate learning and have fun with the students.
• Share examples of amazing learning with other classes.

Key Responsibility 4: Evaluating Learning

• Provide mechanisms for students to discuss their learning, evaluate their learning and that of their peers, and understand what they need to do to improve.

Job Type: Full-time