Teacher in Chemistry

**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 & Implement:

- Develop and implement the objectives of different curriculum offered in GSIS
- Contribute to the development of curriculum (the production and ongoing review of units and/or schemes of work), ensuring both diversity and inclusivity are incorporated to student learning experiences
- Prepare unit plan in accordance with the aims and objectives of the IG/ICSE curriculum and the nature of Chemistry stream
- The lesson experiences and unit plans should have the provision for the completion of the entire syllabus and sufficient time should be reserved for revision work
- Prepare leasson plan in advance for any class in a structured format which should include the learning objectives, content specification, inquiry/focus questions, teaching methodology, learning resources, learning engagement, assessement and assignment
- Develop well-designed and learner-centered learning engagements
- 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
- Providing clear structures for lessons ensuring pace, motivation and challenge are maintained

II. Teaching Approach:

- Create a warm fostering environment in the classroom that facilitates learning
- Ensure that students are engaged in meaningful learning experiences-
- Impart skills to acquire skills in proper handling of apparatus and chemicals
- Develop scientific temper, attitude and problem solving skills
- Recognize Chemical Science as having an important impact on the environment relating to cycles in nature; natural resources, pollution
- Build an awareness of the need to effectively collaborate and communicate- Develop sensitivity towards the living and non-living environments
- Reflect on learning experiences and make informed choices
- Use effective questioning, listen carefully to students, give attention to errors and misconception
- Have a creative and enthusiastic approach both inside and outside the classroom
- Mentor and nurture students by providing appropriate guidance, motivation and intellectual support
- Support students socially, emotionally and academically
- Establish and maintain effective classroom management through connection, consistency and compassion
- 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 of taught curriculum (ATL skills include - Communication, Thinking, Social, Self-management, Research)
- Coach and mentor students for interhouse and interschool competition

III. Experiential Learning:

- Encourage students to design experiments
- Planning lab experiments and other scientific investigations to enable the students have good conceptual understanding
- Supervise students' laboratory work (Chemistry projects / exploration /extended essays) delivering practical demonstrations, and accompanying students on field trips
- Provide opportunities to design investigations, collect data, develop experimental skills, analyse results, collaborate with other students in GSIS and evaluate and communicate their findings
- Follow safety protocol in the lab and ensure the safety of both the teacher and the students are taken care
- Establishing classroom, laboratory, and field trip rules and ensuring all students understand and accept them
- Gather samples, and conduct experiments to give live examples to the students while teaching the curriculum
- Supervise the students' laboratory work and guide them during experiments
- Develop the students skills to work independently not only on their own design, but also collegiately, including collaboration with schools in different regions, to mirror the way in which scientific research is conducted in the wider community

IV. Assessement and Feedback:

- Plan and implement effective asses