Job Description:
Key Responsibilities:
Lead the Teaching Team in Quality Teaching and Learning
- Effectively and instinctively use knowledge of domain integration and deeper understandings of multiple curriculum models to make sound instructional decisions and enrich the existing curriculum framework
- Apply a wide repertoire of assessment tools to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of lesson delivery for programme and teacher development
- Lead and guide the teaching team in assessing the developmental needs of students and in developing IEPs to address these needs
- Maintain and model for others in the teaching team a high level of student engagement in classroom activities
- Apply a variety of evidence-based practices and actively seek opportunities to implement these in response to the differentiated learning needs of students
- Apply a proactive classroom management style and utilise behavioural analysis techniques to promote positive behaviour and manage challenging behaviour
- Organise the class environment to meet the physical, sensory, intellectual and/or developmental impairments of learners.
Facilitate Collaboration & Provide Leadership for Student Development & Organisational Effectiveness
- Proactively plan and facilitate collaboration with other teachers, allied professionals and other partners, for effective planning and execution of development strategies for the learner and their caregivers
- Guide and enhance collaboration of the teachers with caregivers and other stakeholders for a person-centred planning for learning and life goals, and for contextualization and generalisation of learning in the learner’s home and community
- Lead in Professional Learning Circles (PLCs)
- Participate in or lead teams to implement organisational or unit-wide initiatives to achieve Rainbow Centre’s goals and objectives.
Develop Self and Others & Innovate for Student Development & Organisational Effectiveness
- Engage actively in self-reflective practice, supervision and other professional development activities for improved professional practice
- Plan, support and provide feedback towards the professional development of teaching team members
- Lead reflection through small-scale classroom action research that enhances instructional practice.
