Teacher in Integrated Humanities

**Job Information**:
Industry

**Education***

City

**Ooty***

State/Province

**Tamil Nadu***

Country

**India***

Zip/Postal Code

**643004***

**About us**:

- The Good Shepherd International School, **India’s best fully residential**, international co-educational school, was founded by the late Dr. P.C. Thomas and Mrs. Elsamma Thomas in the year 1977. Originally known as the Good Shepherd Public School, it became an International School of the highest caliber of learning in the year 1995. Dr. P.C. Thomas and his wife Elsamma Thomas both started their careers as teachers themselves, which fostered their vision and goal to create the best educational institution in which a child can learn and grow.**ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**I. Plan, Develop and Implement**:

- Plan and prepare well-structured, clearly presented lessons appropriate to the abilities of all students and the syllabus being taught
- Make sure that the classroom is a stimulating environment that facilitates learning
- Liaise with Heads of Department
- Promote high standards of behaviour by encouraging a positive, proactive approach to study and build productive relationships with students
- Set homework according to policy and pertinent to the student’s ability and wider workload
- Provide effective feedback to further student learning, instigating reteaching strategies when required
- Promote high standards in the use of English as the inclusive language and help develop English for Academic Progress
- Assess, record and monitor the progress of all students according to faculty guidelines, recording academic and Skills for Learning results centrally
- Use a data driven approach to identify learning patterns and implement effective action plans to address any learning gapsDesign, deliver and evaluate lessons which stimulate and motivate student learning
- Plan, prepare and align the same with Cambridge/ICSE curricula.- Break the lesson plan as per the set curriculum
- Analyse the results of the previous year and plan the teaching objectives accordingly
- Plan and implement effective assessment for/of learning which enhances outcomes for students
- Implement inquiry-based teaching and learning to convey knowledge, conceptual understandings and required skills to the students and respond to student inquiries and provide meaningful advice

**II. Teaching approach**:

- Create a warm fostering environment in the classroom that facilitates learning
- To ensure that the children experience a broad, balanced, relevant and stimulating learning experience
- Plan and prepare learning activities and guide students towards the achievement of curriculum objectives
- Use a range of instructional techniques and media consistent with available resources and student needs and capabilities
- Expand the students' use of individual and collaborative strategies to generate concepts and ideas
- Incorporate new technologies and tools in the creative process
- Enhance the students' knowledge of visual arts and media through art theory and history
- Develop an aesthetic understanding and appreciation that allows students to make qualitative judgments.
- Enable students to create a functional portfolio of their art works
- Plan, coordinate and prepare art displays and exhibitions for the school and community
- Nurture meaningful relationships with students and provide the individual attention they need- Work creatively with available materials/ resources
- Liaise with the Head of department and curriculum coordinators to ensure effective delivery of the curriculum to specified classes, including selecting resources and managing them efficiently in the classroom
- Collaborate with other secondary teachers and curriculum coordinators to deliver an interdisciplinary curriculum and share new ideas, approaches and professional knowledge
- Select and requisition books, instructional materials, tools, instructional aids, and maintain required inventory records
- The activities / project work and experiences need to be adapted keeping in view the individual differences among children and their innate potentials, as well as the students with special needs
- Remedial classes should be taken to strengthen the students learning wherever required
- Maintain high ethical standards and display integrity at all times
- A variety of teaching strategies supporting the development of ATL skills are to be included for facilitating a holistic view (ATL skills include - Communication, Thinking, Social, Self-management, Research)

**III. Assessment and Feedback**:

- Plan and implement effective assessment for/of learning which enhances outcomes for students
- Encouraging students to think and talk about their learning, develop selfcontrol and independence, concentrate and persevere, and listen attentively
- Assess students and provide both formative and summative evaluations
- Summative assessment are to be planned to assess the performance portfolio, based on the design assessm