Primary Home Room Teacher, Beijing BISS International School

Job Description

Specific duties and responsibilities of the Primary Home Room Teacher will include, but will not be limited to the following:

• Planning: To plan and prepare courses, schemes of work and individual lessons; appropriate to the needs, interests, experience and existing knowledge of the pupils in one’s class.
• Setting and Supervising Work by Pupils: To teach a class or classes, sets, groups or individual pupils, and to set tasks to be undertaken, both at school and elsewhere.
• Marking and Recording: To mark and assess pupils’ work and to record their development, progress and attainment.
• Discipline And Relationships: To take responsibility for maintaining good order, discipline and respect for others, among the pupils, both inside and outside the classroom; to promote understanding of the school’s rules and values; to safeguard health and safety; and to develop relationships with and between pupils, conducive to optimum learning. Teachers are expected to role model appropriate use of language and communication.
• Communication with Parents: To build and maintain co-operative relationships with parents and to communicate with them on pupils’ learning and progress, drawing attention to special skills and talents, as well as to problems or difficulties.
  The Classroom: To maintain an attractive, safe and stimulating classroom environment and to contribute to displays in the school as a whole.
• Overall Policy and Review: To comply with all school policies and guidelines and take part in whole-school reviews of policy and aims.
• Reports: To provide or contribute to oral and written assessments , reports and references relating to the development and learning of individual pupils and groups of pupils.
• Review: To evaluate and review one’s own teaching methods, materials and schemes of work, and to make changes as appropriate.
• Professional Development: To be up–to-date with current educational thinking and practices; to improve one’s pedagogy and understanding of pupils’behavior and development, both by study and by attendance at courses, workshops and meetings; and to participate in appraisals and reviews of one’s work, arranged by the Head.
• Public Relations: To establish and maintain co-operative relationships with other Staff members, exhibit appropriate professional conduct and dress, and Communicate positive aspects of the school to the public.
• School Life: To engage in various activities at the school, such as:
  • Serve as a homeroom/class teacher with responsibility, for the day-to-day pastoral care of students;
  • Participate in off-site student field trips;
  • Attend meetings such as staff and departmental meetings;
  • Carry out supervisory duties at break/lunch times and at the beginning or end of the school day;
  • Participate in parent-teacher meetings;
  • Attend special events and support student functions outside of the regular school day;
  • Serve on committees, as required;
  • Lead / assist at least one co-curricular activity for students;
  • Teach after-school enrichment classes for students identified as needing enrichment or additional reinforcement;
  • Providing substitution for other teachers on need based, as required by the Heads and Programme Coordinators.
• Working days: To maintain regular attendance during all scheduled school days and on those Saturdays when attendance is required for a school and / or staff event /workshop.
• Additional Duties: To perform any additional duties and responsibilities as assigned by the Head.