Assistant Curriculum Leader of English (TLR 2a)

Key Responsibilities

Promoting Attainment Across the Department

  • To support the Curriculum Leader by monitoring planning and curriculum coverage across KS3 and, and providing additional capacity to monitor this in one KS4 subject specialism.
  • To support the Curriculum Leader by ensuring that high-quality resources for intervention are available and supplied to students in mainstream lessons and in other provisions (including cover work).

Leading Teaching & Learning

  • To support the Curriculum Leader by monitoring and evaluating standards of learning and teaching using a variety of approaches including lesson observation (giving constructive feedback and developmental coaching support) and work scrutiny.
  • To be an excellent classroom practitioner, acting as a role model for others.
  • To act as a mentor to ECTs and trainee teachers.
  • To lead the development of pedagogical practice across the department through the modelling of excellent teaching through faculty CPD meetings

Leadership Responsibility

  • To take responsibility for leading the department in the absence of the Curriculum Leader