English Teacher

**ENGLISH TEACHER**:
**Job Title**: English Teacher

**Reporting**: HT

**About VSIS**: Vijaybhoomi Singapore International School - Junior College (VSIS) is the first residential school of SIS Group Schools located in Greater Mumbai, Karjat. VSIS offers University ambience at the high school level in collaboration with Singapore International School having 25 years of proven results and deep experience in delivering the Cambridge A level program.

**Purpose of Job**: Subject teachers are responsible for maximizing the academic progress of the students they teach, working with colleagues to participate fully in the development of the department. Subject teachers promote a positive, purposeful, and professional working atmosphere that encourages cooperation and challenge, whilst valuing the contribution that individuals make to the success of the department.

**Duties and Responsibilities**

**Overall Responsibilities**:

- Encourage high standards in all aspects of school life, particularly in student progress
- Contribute to the effective and efficient running of the school
- Promote a school culture which is positive, purposeful, and professional
- Support and motivate students, teachers, and other school employees
- Encourage consultation, review, and improvement

**Teaching and Learning Responsibilities**
- Plan and prepare well-structured, clearly presented lessons appropriate to the abilities of all students and the syllabus being taught
- Help students develop High Performance Learning skills in line with school’s values and ethos
- Make sure that the classroom is a stimulating environment that facilitates learning
- Liaise with the Head of Department and Learning Support where a student may have special educational needs and with the form tutor and Head of House if a student is experiencing pastoral difficulties
- 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
- Promote high standards of organisation
- Be punctual to lessons
- Promote high standards in the use of English as the common language and help develop English for Academic Progress
- Assess, record and monitor the progress of all students according to faculty guidelines in order to provide accurate information to parents in a variety of forms, as and when necessary
- Maintain materials and resources as needed

**Responsibilities to the Department and School**
- Be respectful of the needs of colleagues and the department with regards to cooperation, collegiality, deadlines and team cohesion
- Participate positively in departmental meetings, follow policies and generally contributing to the effective and efficient running of the department
- Promote professional dialogue, share ideas about teaching and learning and support other teachers in developing good practice and new approaches and initiatives
- Enthusiastically contribute to cross-curricular links and initiatives, and Leadership in Action activities
- Be involved in new responsibilities within the department as part of an ongoing process of professional development

**Other Responsibilities**
- Undertake other reasonable duties as requested by the members of the Senior Leadership Team and any duties that the Head Master deems necessary for the effective operation of the school

**Requirements**:

- Appropriate degree
- Minimum 5 to 12 years’ teaching experience
- Familiarity with the National Curriculum of England IGCSE and A Levels as appropriate
- A high level of professionalism and consideration of the well-being of children
- Recent and consistent involvement in extracurricular activities
- Previous experience working with students for whom English is not their first language
- Teaching English Language and Literature from Years 10 -12
- Teaching A Level English Literature
- Teaching EAL learners, specifically in preparing them for language examinations including English as a Second Language IGCSE and IELTS
- Teaching Academic English
- Completion of the Teaching ESL Students in Mainstream Classrooms (TESMC) course or similar
- Using creative approaches in the classroom, including the use of new technologies to support learning