Teacher - Music - Johannesburg - ADvTECH

Description

Job Title: Teacher - Music

Summary:

• To establish and further extend students' basic foundations, guiding them toward developing abstract thought and successfully completing independent work across all areas of their curricula.
• To build and maintain relationships with students, parents, and colleagues to foster positive interaction and promote student retention.
• To implement and maintain a diverse and inclusive learning environment and culture that embraces future-focused education, motivating students, inspiring them, and challenging them.

Key Responsibilities:

Academic Delivery (40%)

• Keeps abreast of future-focused educational trends in the Intersen Phase, incorporating them into teaching and learning practices aligned with Crawford Pillars.
• Implements the school curriculum and other teaching strategies in planning for challenging, engaging, inspiring, relevant, and differentiated learning locally and globally.
• Plans, prepares, and delivers lessons to meet the needs of individuals or groups of students, enabling them to progress incrementally as part of a personalized learning journey.
• Enriches teaching and learning by including frequent use of technology and additional learning resources, as well as engaging and stimulating teaching practices.
• Prepares and/or ensures classrooms are appropriately set up in accordance with lesson plans and 21st Century learning practices aligned with future-focused skills.
• Ensures effective academic and emotional support to enhance teaching and learning.
• Collaborates, plans, liaises, and reflects with different members of the learning community.
• Assists with additional offerings, duties, extra-murals, and events taking place at the school.
• Participates in, embeds, and applies professional development tools, strategies, and pedagogical approaches.
• Shows an ongoing commitment to 'lifelong learning' and remains informed on current relevant practice, readily available to attend appropriate development/training.

Academic Assessment and Reporting (20%)

• Assesses and records students' progress continuously and systematically, keeping records up to date in a mark book/personal file, STASY, forming an in-depth knowledge of each student in the class.
• Meets academic standards as defined by Central Academics and Crawford International Academic strategy.
• Assesses and monitors student performance and progress, using data-driven decision making and defines next steps in the personalized learning journey. Integrates this information into future planning.
• Undertakes teaching and learning assessment of students as required by Academics Department, as well as Crawford International assessment expectations.
• Completes various reports for parents, Principals, and/or Academics Department throughout the year (STASY, Inquiry Units, Other).
• Participates in the moderation and standardization process, of formal assessments. Participate in team marking, clusters, and IEB moderation as required.

Student Behaviour Management (10%)

• Manages student behaviour in the classroom by establishing rules, essential agreements, and procedures as expected behaviours.
• Promotes personal, social, physical, and emotional well-being of individual students, groups of students, through mentorship programs.
• Provides guidance and advice to students and parents.
• Identifies students who may have barriers to learning and informs the appropriate people to initiate the next steps to support individual progress.
• Provides information and contact details of experts who can further assist and provide support to students if all other avenues have been exhausted with little success.
• Informs relevant staff and parents regarding the support being offered and the action plan to be followed.

School Brand Ambassadorship (10%)

• Knows and demonstrates the Crawford International mission statement and embracing Crawford International DNA.
• Acts as a role model with regard to work ethic, attitude, and professionalism, embracing the Crawford DNA.
• Continually contributes to the sustainability and effective operation and management of the school.
• Assists with additional offerings, duties, extra-murals, assemblies, and other events taking place across Crawford International. Attends and supports a range of school activities and events.
• Promotes the ethos of the school and brand both internally and externally and is readily available to market the school at Open Days, exhibitions, etc.
• Contributes to the professional development of new teachers and student teachers/interns as required.
• Submits articles for newsletters or School magazine/yearbook, social media, or other as requested.
• Monitors student multiform and maintains agreed expectations with respect to the Crawford International code of conduct.

Administration (10%)

• Adheres to the requirements of the timetable and ensures its effective implementation in their classes.
• Plans for excursions by obtaining all the relevant approvals and liaises with service providers, as necessary.
• Keeps and maintains the Crawford International learning space as a dynamic learning environment.
• Where applicable, conducts inventory activities of consumables and equipment to monitor usage and ensure availability as required. Repair and replacement.
• Advises Principal and management team if substitution is required and assists with substitution as requested.

Health & Safety (10%)

• Actively observes and supervises children in playing and activity areas as appropriate.
• Observes and scrutinizes the classroom and playing areas for dangerous/hazardous objects or circumstances, removes/tapes off hazards where possible, and immediately reports safety issues to the school leadership team.
• Continuously creates awareness of personal safety and social issues amongst students.

Competencies

• Demonstrated planning and organization skills with superior detail orientation.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with excellent written and verbal abilities and professional presentation skills.
• A proven track record of managing professional relationships with maturity and high EQ.
• The incumbent must present themselves professionally and in alignment with the brand message.
• Professional time management is a minimum requirement of the role.
• Demonstrated evidence of the ability to think critically and problem-solve appropriately.

It is expected that if Educators are interested in growing their management and leadership competence, they will become proficient in the following competencies:

• Commercial Aptitude - Understanding the bigger picture and all the facets incorporated into leading a school.
• Strategic Thinking - Ability to create strategic plans that sets the school up for a sustainable future.
• Execution - Understanding how to translate strategic plans into day-to-day executable activities.
• Customer Orientation - Patience and understanding of what parents and students want and need, and how best to facilitate these.
• Collaborative Relationships - Respect for peers and the ability to build collaborative partnerships with other senior leaders, vendors, suppliers, and customers.
• Decision Making - Ability to make data-rich, informed decisions, and proactively taking advantage of opportunities as they arise.
• Capability Building - Ability to coach and provide feedback and guidance. The ability to actively develop others and have difficult conversations as needed.
• Performance Leadership - Unites people behind a strong vision and leads the team in executing on goals and achieving stretch objectives.
• Interpersonal Effectiveness - Aware of how their actions impact others'. Ability to influence others and build relationships.

Minimum Qualification:

• Degree (NQF level 6) and PGCE or B.Ed (Intermediate/Intersen or Senior Phase or Foundation Phase).
• Willingness to be a generalist rather than a specialist when teaching.
• Honours degree with specialisation in an educational sphere or subject-specific area.
• IB PYP Training.
• Police Clearance.
• Valid SACE certificate.
• Valid Driver's Licence.

Desired Qualification:

• Strategies and tools to support delivery of Global Competencies, Inquiry-based Learning, and Computer and Digital Literacy.

Minimum Experience:

• 3-5 years Teaching Experience.
• 1 year Teaching internship (at Principal's discretion).