Myp Individuals

**5** yrs**:
Experience

**N/A**:
Class

**IB**:
Curriculum

**3** -** **7**:
Salary Offered

**N/A**:
Qualification Required

Each MYP Teacher is accountable for:

- Using a range and balance of teaching strategies
- Creating a stimulating classroom environment
- Grouping strategies using a variety of different learning situations
- Viewing students as thinkers with their own emerging theories
- Building on what students bring to the learning experience in the way of prior understanding, knowledge and skills
- Using a variety of resources representing multiple perspectives
- Empowering students to feel responsible and to take action
- Involving students actively in their own learning
- Pursuing open-ended inquiry and real life investigations
- Maintaining constant awareness of the needs of the children to whom English is a second language
- Addressing the individual needs of students with different levels and types of abilities
- Devoting extra time to students who may be struggling academically or who may need further challenging
- Ensuring that children with learning differences are provided with appropriate programmes
- The attainment, progress and outcomes of students taught
- Being aware of students’ capabilities, their prior knowledge and planning teaching and differentiation as appropriate
- Demonstrating an understanding of and taking responsibility for promoting high standards of literacy
- Ensuring the documentation of curricula units and lesson plans on ManageBac and within the timelines set forth by the administration
- Use the learner profile to guide the appropriate student development of internal control and self-confidence

Assessing

Each MYP Teacher is accountable for:

- Viewing planning, teaching and assessing as interconnected processes
- Using an appropriate range of observation, assessment, monitoring and recording strategies as a basis for setting challenging learning objectives for students and monitoring students’ progress and levels of attainment
- Making accurate and productive use of assessment to secure students’ progress
- Giving pupils regular feedback, both orally and through accurate marking, and encourage students to respond to the feedback, reflect on progress, their emerging needs and to take a responsible and conscientious attitude to their own work and study
- Using relevant data to monitor progress, set targets, and plan subsequent lessons
- Setting homework and plan other out-of-class activities to consolidate and extend the knowledge and understanding students have acquired as appropriate
- Maintaining students' individual records of achievement
- Involving students, parents and colleagues in the assessment process
- Involving students in shared reflection during and at the end of each unit of inquiry
- Evaluating the programme collaboratively, using approved, flexible systems
- Enabling students to see assessment as a means of describing their learning
- Assessing the levels of students' current experience and understanding before embarking on new learning

Professional appraisal and development

Each MYP Teacher is accountable for:

- Active participation in constructive professional appraisal based directly on the points in this job description, thus continually working to improve learning for students
- Reading good professional literature on a regular basis
- Utilizing any professional development allowances granted, in order to grow and develop professionally
- Actively seeking professional development in any of the above points which are considered by either the teacher or the administration as being factors in need of strengthening