Myp & Igcse - Mathematics Teacher

**Job Information**:
Date Opened

**10/07/2024***

Job Type

**Full time***

Industry

**Education***

Work Experience

**5+ years***

City

**OOTY***

State/Province

**Tamil Nadu***

Country

**India***

Zip/Postal Code

**643 004***

**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 for students learning appropriately using knowledge and understanding of the GSIS Context
- 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
- Have an understanding of students’ needs and abilities to design appropriate learning experiences
- 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
- Shortlist and design the coursebooks required for the students
- Design and implement interdisciplinary lesson plan, also create charts on how long the unit will conduct interdisciplinary plan
- Use the design cycle to develop intellectual and practical approaches to problem-solving

**II. Teaching Approach**:

- To ensure that the children experience a broad, balanced, relevant and stimulating learning experience.
- To motivate and stimulate the children's learning abilities, encouraging learning through hands-on activities
- To creatively devise and produce visual aids and teaching resources
- To create and manage a caring, supportive, purposeful and stimulating classroom which is conducive to children’s learning
- Integrating classroom learning to real world situations and current research - making clear the why and what of learning
- Work collaboratively with members of the department and positively contribute to departmental tasks, such as policies, common assessments, instructional practices, grading practice etc.
- Embrace the department focus on student centered learning and critical thinking
- Encourage all students to be actively engaged in their own learning and in reviewing their progress against targets
- Encourage and foster intellectual curiosity
- Take into account the differing ability levels of students and differentiate work accordingly
- Set appropriate tasks and challenges according to the published timetable, and ensure that work is regularly evaluated, with constructive feedback
- Contribute to the enrichment activities that are an essential part of learning in an international boarding school
- To ensure that school policies are reflected in daily practice and to promote the ethos of the school.
- To promote the welfare of children and to support the school in safeguarding children through relevant policies and procedures- Participate in annual evaluation and professional growth, taking full advantage of professional development opportunities
- 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 the area of Mathematics (ATL skills include - Communication, Thinking, Social, Self-management, Research)

**III. Assessement and Feedback**:

- Plan and implement effective assessment for/of learning which enhances outcomes for students
- Analyse the results of the previous year and plan the teaching objectives and specify how they will be taught and assessed
- Assess students and provide both formative and summative evaluations. Design programme tests and assessment tasks as required. Assess the e-portfolio at the end of each unit based on the design assessment criteria and strands.- Corrections of assessments and homework given in the Managebac
- Closely monitor the student projects and guide them until completion
- Provide oral and written feedback to students and other stakeholders
- Work collaboratively with other school teachers to plan technology-based projects and cross-curricular units to enrich the student learning
- Update the current status of the unit completion to the parallel teachers, head of the department and the section coordinator
- Receive and implement the feedback received from the section coordinator and the head of the department
- Ability to evaluate and