Head Of Home Economics

JOB DESCRIPTIONJOB TITLE: Head of Home EconomicsPROFESSIONAL DUTIES OF A TEACHERTEACHERS' (TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT) REGULATIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1987Schedule 3Regulation 5 Key results areas: The person appointed will be required to teach home economics at KS3 and KS4 up to GCSE level.
The successful candidate will be responsible to the head teacher for the quality of teaching and learning delivered to the pupils.
The successful candidate would be expected to take part in some of the school's extra-curricular activities.Main Duties: The person appointed will be required to:1.Teach home economics throughout the school up to GCSE level.
Depending on the qualifications, experience and skills of the successful applicant, the timetable may also include other subject areas.2.Lead the Home Economics Department.
Prepare home economics policy, schemes of work, lessons, mark class work and homework, examine, write reports and undertake formative assessments of pupils (see separate sheet re duties of Head of Department).3.Organise department meetings and support other staff teaching home economics.4.Play a positive role in promoting home economics.5.Act as a form teacher if required.6.Contribute to the extra-curricular life of the school.
7.Undertake supervision duties as directed.
8.Provide catering for school events as directed by Principal.9.The range of duties may be varied from time to time according to the changing needs of the post and opportunities.
Other responsibilities include:1.
Responsibility for ensuring preparation of Policies and Schemes of Work for all classes.2.Co-ordinating and directing technical staff to ensure completion of departmental tasks as appropriate3.Ensuring that the department implements current school policy on Literacy, Numeracy, ICT, Pastoral Care, Special Educational Needs and Careers.4.Setting Targets for raising standards of achievement and monitoring and evaluating all aspects of the work of the department.5.Responsible for oversight of internal assessment and reporting in accordance with department policy and school policy.6.In collaboration with colleagues, determine homework policy for the department.
The monitoring of homework and marking policies within their department.7.Keeping up to date with developments in subject area and passing relevant information to colleagues.8.Liaise with Learning Support Co-Ordinator in implementing the Code of Practice for pupils with Special Educational Needs.9.Responsibility for departmental requisitions as required.10.Oversight of maintenance and repair of departmental equipment11.Ensuring that departmental staff are aware of safety requirements where appropriate.
1) Exercise of general professional dutiesA teacher who is not a principal shall carry out the professional duties of a teacher as circumstances may require:- (a) if he/she is employed as a teacher in a school under the reasonable direction of the principal of that school;(b) if he/she is employed by a board on terms under which he is not assigned to any one school, under the reasonable direction of that board and of the principal of any school in which he/she may for the time being be required to work as a teacher.
2) Exercise of particular duties(a) A teacher employed as a teacher (other than a principal) in a school shall perform, in accordance with any directions which may be reasonably given to him/her by the principal from time to time, such particular duties as may reasonably be assigned to him/her.
(b) A teacher to whom paragraph 1(b) refers shall perform, in accordance with any direction which may reasonably be given to him/her from time to time by the board or by the principal of any school in which he/she may for the time being be required to work as a teacher, such particular duties as may reasonably be assigned to him/her.
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Planning 1.1 Planning and preparing courses and lessons; 1.2 Teaching, according to their educational needs, the pupils assigned to him/her, including the setting and marking of work to be carried out by the pupils in school and elsewhere; 1.3 Assessing, recording and reporting on the development, progress and attainment of pupils.
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General 2.1 Promoting the general progress and well-being of individual pupils and of any class or group of pupils assigned to him/her; 2.2 Providing advice and guidance to pupils on educational and social matters and on their further education and future careers including information about sources of more expert advice on specific questions, making relevant records and reports; 2.3 Making records of and reports on the personal and social needs of pupils except in instances where to do so might be regarded as compromising a teacher's own position; 2.4 Communicating and consulting with the parents of pupils; 2.5 Communicating and co-operating with such persons or bodies outside the school as may be approved by the employing authority and the Board of Governors; 2.6 Participating in meetings arranged for any of the purposes described above.
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Assessment/Reporting Providing or contributing to oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual pupils and groups of pupils except in instances where to do so might be regarded as compromising a teacher's own position.
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Staff Development/Professional Development 4.1 Participating, if required, in any scheme of staff development and performance review; 4.2a) Reviewing from time to time his/her methods of teaching and programmes of work; b) Participating in arrangements for his/her further training and professional development as a teacher.
4.3 Advising and co-operating with the Principal and other teachers (or any one or more of them) on the preparation and development of courses of study, teaching materials, teaching programmes, methods of teaching and assessment and pastoral arrangements.
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Discipline/Health and Safety 5.1 Maintaining good order and discipline among pupils in accordance with the policies of the employing authority and safeguarding their health and safety both when they are authorised to be on the school premises and when they are engaged in authorised school activities elsewhere.
5.2 Participating in meetings at the school which relate to the curriculum for the school or the administration or organisation of the school, including pastoral arrangements.
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Public Examinations Participating in arrangements for preparing pupils for public examinations and in assessing pupils for the purposes of such examinations; recording and reporting such assessments; and participating in arrangements for pupils' presentation for and supervision during such examination.
7. Review and Development of Management Activities/Administration 7.1 a) Contributing to the selection for appointment and professional development of other teachers, including the induction and assessment of probationary teachers; b) Co-ordinating or managing the work of other teachers; c) Taking such part as may be required of him/her in the review, development and management of activities relating to the curriculum, organisation and pastoral functions of the school.
7.2 a) Participating in administrative and organisational tasks related to such duties as described above, including the management or supervision of persons providing support for the teachers in the school and the ordering and allocation of equipment and materials.
b) Subject to the provisions of Article 22 of the Order, attending assemblies; c) Registering the attendance of pupils and supervising pupils, whether these duties are to be performed before, during or after school sessions.
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Number of days/Hours of work 8.1 a) A full-time teacher, other than a teacher employed in a residential establishment, shall be available for work on 195 days in any year of which not more than 190 days should involve teaching children in a classroom situation; b) A teacher, other than a teacher employed in a residential establishment, shall be available to perform such duties at such times and such places as may reasonably be specified by the Principal, or where he/she is employed by a Board on terms under which he/she is not assigned to any one school by the Board or the Principal of any school in which he/she may for the time being be required to work as a teacher, for 1,265 hours in any year exclusive of time spent off school premises in preparing and marking lessons and time spent travelling to and from the place of work; c) A teacher may not be required to teach as distinct from supervise children in a classroom situation for more than 25 hours in any week in a primary or special school and 23.5 hours in any week in a secondary school; d) Unless employed under a separate contract as a mid-day supervisor, a teacher shall not be required to undertake mid-day supervision;e) Subject to paragraph (f) all teachers shall be required to have a break of at least 30 minutes between the hours of 12 noon and 2.00 pm;f) Teachers in nursery schools and nursery units in primary schools shall be required to have a break of at least 30 minutes between the hours of 12 noon and 2.30 pm;g) For the purposes of this paragraph, a 'year' means a period of 12 months commencing on 31st July and a 'week' means a period of 7 days commencing on a Sunday.
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Staff cover 9.1 Supervising and teaching any pupils whose teacher is not available provided that: a) In schools with an average daily enrolment of 222 or less, in primary 1 and primary 2 classes in schools with an average daily enrolment greater than 222 pupils and in nursery classes in primary schools a teacher other than a supply teacher shall not be required to provide such cover:b) In schools with an average daily enrolment greater than 222 pupils a teacher other than a supply teacher shall not be required to provide such cover after the second day on which a teacher, other than a teacher of primary 1 or primary 2 class or of a nursery class in a primary school, is absent or otherwise not available, or from the first day if the fact that the teacher would be absent or otherwise not available for a period exceeding 2 days was known to and agreed by the employing authority in advance.