Primary School Teacher

**Job Purpose**

**Job Purpose**

**Key Responsibilities**

**Quality Education**

**Planning the Curriculum and Lessons**
- Plan the curriculum for the year and the term.
- Identify clear learning outcomes.
- Specify how the learning outcomes will be taught and assessed.
- Design effective and engaging lessons based on the prescribed syllabus and curriculum.
- Design lessons with a clear structure and progression.

**Learning Environment**
- Deliver effective and engaging lessons.
- Facilitate a variety of activities both in and out of the classroom.
- Assess student performance using both paper-pencil tests as well as a variety of other methodologies.
- Create an active and engaging learning environment.
- Manage classroom discipline.
- Be a leader in the classroom.
- Be a role model for students.

**Assessment and Evaluation**
- Assess how well the learning outcomes have been achieved using a variety of evaluation methods.
- Correct and mark work done by students.
- Set papers/evaluations for tests, assignments, and assessments.
- Assess, record and report on the attainment, progress, development, and overall behaviour of your students

**Student Learning and Progress**
- Build on prior attainment levels of students.
- Set learning tasks that are both challenging and interesting for learners.
- Ensure the involvement of every student in the learning process.
- Differentiate learning to include students who are gifted and slow learners and students with SEN.
- Collaborate with the School Counsellor to create and execute an Individualised Education Plan for slow learners.
- Ensure remediation of concepts that are unclear - both individually and in groups.
- Provide constructive feedback to students.
- Help students develop appropriate study skills.

**Pastoral Care and Counselling**
- Provide encouragement and support to each student so that he can aspire to reach his full potential in academics and at co-curricular activities.
- Play the role of mentor and counsellor to students
- Build a healthy nurturing relationship with each student individually.
- Get to know the background of each of your students.
- Encourage students to become independent problem solvers.
- Help students to grow personally, and to become mature and responsible.
- Identify students with symptoms of emotional disturbance and work with the school counsellor to help them, as needed.
- Identify students with learning disabilities and work with the student counsellor to help them, as needed.
- Demonstrate responsible leadership and wise management for the students as per the values of St. Peter’s School.

**Administrative Responsibilities**

**& Resource Management**
- Create and maintain up-to-date digitized Personal, Academic and Co-Curricular Performance Records for students
- Maintain student attendance records.
- Create and maintain teaching-learning records such as unit plans, lesson plans, and log books.
- Create and maintain records of assessments, assignments and worksheets for the academic year.
- Assume special roles, such as Class Teacher, House Mistress/Master, as may be assigned.
- Disburse textbooks and stationery to students.

**Communication & Collaboration**
- Demonstrate an open, accepting and non-critical attitude to students
- Communicate student performance - attainment, progress, development, and overall behaviour - to parents/guardians of the students
- Demonstrate good listening skills with all stakeholders
- Report the status of student performance to the Supervisor -Primary/Secondary School (as applicable), and to the Principal regularly.
- Liaise with the school hospital to ensure timely and quality medical attention for students, as required.
- Participate in staff meetings.
- Supervise Class IV staff to get required tasks done on time and effectively, as required.
- Extend hospitality to visiting parents and guardians.
- Maintain courteous relations with students, parents and staff members of the school.

**Organizational Duties**
- Perform Duties assigned as per school rota, e.g. Master/Mistress on Duty in the School Dining Hall, etc.
- Plan, organize and conduct Co-Curricular activities and Special Functions for students, e.g. Annual Day, Sports Day, Hindi Diwas, Debates, Drama and more.
- Ensure that cleanliness is maintained in the classrooms, and other areas of the school.
- Assist Dorm Parents, the School Counsellor, and the Nurse in providing pastoral care and counselling to the students.
- Contribute to creating a safe environment - physical and personal - in the school.
- Support and contribute to the general and personal safety of all students.
- Identify and report any students at risk of physical, sexual, or emotional maltreatment to the Principal, the School Counsellor, the respective Dorm Parent and the Nurse.
- Maintain confidentiality of all information acquired in the course of undertaking duties relating to the school.
- Maintain high professional standards of attendance, punctuality, ap