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Teacher Art and Design Technology
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About The Role
This is a full-time, permanent position starting in September for an enthusiastic and dedicated Teacher of Art and Design Technology. The successful educator will deliver high-quality lessons across both disciplines, bridging the gap between fine art and functional design. This role demands a forward-thinking professional who can seamlessly adapt teaching methods to scaffold and support learners of all abilities.
About The School
The school is a welcoming, nurturing, and incredibly diverse secondary school located in Leeds. Guided by a deep sense of social responsibility and the core values of solidarity, equity, and equality, the school cultivates a calm, respectful, and highly productive environment where both staff and students can flourish.
Key Requirements
- Qualified Teacher Status (QTS): Holds QTS, QTLS, or an equivalent recognised UK teaching qualification.
- Enhanced DBS: A valid Enhanced DBS clearance registered on the Update Service (or a willingness for one).
- Knowledge of Exam Specifications: Thorough understanding of current GCSE Art and GCSE Design and Technology assessment criteria and exam board specifications.
- Eligibility to Work: Valid legal entitlement to work full-time in the UK.
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- Responsive Scaffolding: The ability to dismantle complex design briefs into accessible, scaffolded steps for less confident learners.
- Disciplinary Literacy: Skill in explicitly teaching sophisticated, subject-specific vocabulary and artistic terminology to boost students' articulacy.
- Behaviour Management: Expert application of positive behaviour strategies to maintain a focused, quiet, and highly productive workspace.
- Health and Safety Management: Sharp situational awareness for monitoring machine safety, tool allocation, and chemical safety in an art/DT environment.
- Collaborative Curriculum Mapping: Ability to work dynamically with other faculty members to share best practices and build a well-sequenced curriculum.
- Live Marking and Feedback: Highly developed active feedback skills, including live-marking student work in the classroom to deepen immediate understanding.
Key Responsibilities
- Lesson Planning and Delivery: Plan and deliver ambitious, well-sequenced Art and Design Technology lessons that stretch the highest-ability students.
- Workshop Safety Leadership: Maintain rigorous safety standards across all classrooms, ensuring students handle tools, sharp objects, and machinery appropriately.
- Material and Resource Preparation: Manage, organise, and prepare physical resources, raw materials, and machinery ahead of practical projects.
- Targeted Literacy Integration: Implement the school's literacy strategy by explicitly teaching subject vocabulary and correcting written errors systematically.
- Progress Tracking and Recording: Consistently assess student portfolios, record technical progress, and utilise data to inform future lesson planning.
- Exhibition and Display Creation: Celebrate student achievement by regularly updating vibrant, inspiring visual displays across the department and school.
- Parental and Community Engagement: Prepare for and actively participate in parent-teacher evenings, progress reviews, and community showcase events.
- Pastoral Duties: Undertake the full responsibilities of a Form Tutor, promoting the moral, social, and emotional well-being of a designated student group.
- Departmental Collaboration: Attend regular staff meetings, contribute to internal moderation, and actively share lesson resources with colleagues.
- Extra-Curricular Enrichment: Support or lead out-of-class creative projects and initiatives.
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