Head of Foundation Stage 2
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- Dubai
- Training
- Full-time
● Initiating a positive and friendly approachable relationship with students, parents and staff.
● Maintaining expectations for the beginning and end of the day; greeting parents and children and responding to immediate queries and concerns.
● Promoting high quality and innovative ideas across all areas of: learning and teaching, planning, the learning environment, learning skills, the use of specialist teachers and maximizing use of release time to improve outcomes for children.
● Creating a culture of optimism, motivation and inspiration. All staff within the team believe that the school and department can and will reach agreed goals and targets.
● Holding teachers to account for the attainment and progress of learners within the year group.
● Work alongside Head of School, AHTs and Lower School Curriculum Leaders to ensure a high-quality Monitoring, Evaluation and Review (MER) process of Standards in Learning and Teaching within their Year Group.
● Effectively planning, carrying out and reporting within the year groups Monitoring, Evaluation and Review cycle, including devising focused action plans in line with the School Development plan.
● Providing regular and appropriate professional learning development opportunities for members of your team in order to identify and grow potential.
● Setting challenging targets for Performance Management which are consistently monitored
● Promoting rapid progress and positive outcomes for focus learners by the facilitation of core intervention groups within the year group
● Leading Parents as Partners, including promoting high quality termly parental engagements, workshops, communication and year group events and visits.
● Maintaining good attendance and intervening effectively to improve student lateness and attendance, where it drops to below 96%.
● Facilitate and manage effective and purposeful transitions between lessons and during break times.
● Plan and facilitate an effective transition program for all stakeholders.
● Line management of teachers and TAs in your year group.
Other specific duties
● To play an active role in the future development of the school and its community.
● To promote the school’s policies where appropriate.
● Any other professional duties that are required and outlined as a leader at GEMS Wellington International School.SkillsSuccessful candidates will need to:
- Embody and role model our core values of integrity, empathy and fortitude in everything they do
- Hold a BEd or Bachelors degree with PGCE / PGDE or equivalent
- Have proven experience of teaching primary level - EYFS
- Have a willingness to collaborate and share their outstanding practice
- Have a growth mindset, whereby they are reflective and solution focussed
- Be creative and enthusiastic in their approach to teaching
- Possess excellent interpersonal skills to work closely with colleagues, students and parents
- Have a proven track record of providing outstanding learning & teaching
- Have aspiration to work in a world-class school with real prospects for enhancing their career
- Be willing to make a positive contribution to our school community and culture through active engagement in our extra-curricular programme and community-based events