Economics Teacher

**Job Information**:
Date Opened

**12/11/2024**

Job Type

**Full time**

Industry

**Education**

Work Experience

**5+ years**

City

**OOTY**

State/Province

**TAMILNADU**

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 IB/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**:

- Sound understanding of the content and structure of the Economics curriculum at the school such as **Econometric, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, International and Development Economics**
- Have demonstrated **high level of competence in classroom teaching**
- Conviction in student led **classroom pedagogy in the teaching using real life contemporary** world issues and abreast of developments in the field of Economics.

**IV. Assessement and Feedback**:

- Plan and implement effective assessment for/of learning which enhances outcomes for students
- Assess students and provide both formative and summative evaluations
- Design programme tests and assessment tasks as required
- Summative assessment for IB/ICSE students to be planned based on the learning objectives- 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
- Update the current status of the unit completion to the parallel teachers, head of the department and the section coordinator
- Work collaboratively with other school teac