KG English Head of Department

Curriculum

• Provide oversight for curriculum review and development, and curriculum documentation in designated subjects.
• Provide leadership and modeling for teachers in curriculum and lesson planning, including intervention and enrichment materials; backwards-designed unit and lesson planning processes.
• Develop academic support programs as needed to meet students’ needs.
• Lead weekly curriculum and assessment planning meetings based on teachers' and students' needs.
• Establish and make explicit aims and objectives for the teaching of departmental subjects and review, evaluate, and develop the curriculum to meet these objectives.
• Ensure that syllabuses and schemes of work are produced, monitored, and implemented.
• Develop structures to ensure progression and continuity in terms of cross-curricular work.
• Contribute, as necessary, to the planning of the school timetable.
• Plan and lead department PLTs.
• Provide individualized cognitive coaching as needed to department members.

Assessment & Students' Achievement Data

• Develop assessment processes compatible with international best practices and school policy.
• Ensure that standards/learning outcomes are being achieved in every classroom; prepare classroom data each semester and assess student work based on evidence against the standard and an agreed rubric.
• Prepare teachers in the department to support students achieving high standards on external tests, meeting set targets, and making significant progress from one year to the next.
• Prepare the common exams across schools according to their subject responsibility, ensuring alignment with external exam expectations.
• Provide leadership and modeling for teachers in analyzing students' attainment and progress data to inform their teaching practices to meet varied student needs.
• Ensure that students’ work is regularly assessed, feedback is given and acted upon, and adequate continuous assessment is carried out.
• Organize the setting and marking of internal tests and examinations.

Professional Development

• Promote teaching and learning styles consistent with the Schools High-Quality Teaching and Learning Policy.
• Ensure that wall displays within teaching and resource areas assist learning and reflect the high quality of work expected of students.
• Attend training sessions with the school development team and other professional development programs identified by the school.
• Support teachers in training students to be prepared for national tests like Mawhiba, Qurdat, and Tahsili when needed.
• Coordinate and monitor the quality of work of departmental teaching staff.
• Conduct lesson observations and performance management feedback in tandem with the school SLT.
• Facilitate the sharing of good practice in teaching and learning throughout the Department and across schools.
• Plan for the induction of newly appointed teachers within the Department and provide a full program of guidance and support for these teachers.
• Promote the professional development of all teachers within the Department and assist in performance management procedures within the agreed framework.
• Ensure that appropriate work is set when subject teachers are absent.
• Establish an effective structure for professional learning teams, including the chairing of meetings, minutes, and working groups.

Resource Management

• Ensure that teachers have access to the curriculum they teach, the related resources, and the tools and equipment needed to do their job.
• Actively participate in hiring teachers in collaboration with the principal and vice principal.
• Ensure that all students have access to all required digital and physical resources.
• Monitor teachers' and students' utilization of resources and ensure adherence to optimal utilization principles.
• Ensure that teachers and students are using the learning management system appropriately.

School Leadership Team

• Be a key member of the middle leadership team of the school and work with the Principal & Vice Principals to implement the vision and strategies for school improvement, responsible for the department.
• Support the principal and vice principal in preparing and implementing the school development plan.
• Lead the school’s gifted and talented programs related to their subject, ensuring the needs of all learners are met.
• Coordinate with the school adviser and school principal on decisions and information related to teaching and learning practices.
• Accept the general leadership role associated with posts in middle management in schools.

Additional Duties

• With a 50% load of assigned regular classes, the Head of Department will have additional duties, including:
• Being the first on call for all daily covers when teachers are absent for any reason.
• Responsible for covering and arranging cover for missing teachers such as late arrivals, early departures, or resignations until the teacher arrives or is replaced.
• Providing supportive teaching lessons to individuals/groups of students as needed, whether through pull-out or push-in sessions.
• Overseeing lesson plan checks, curriculum delivery, and standards coverage in each of their subject areas.
• Managing the CPD of the teachers in their subject areas, whether through individual coaching, subject-level PLCs, or group training workshop delivery.

• Be a highly collaborative, results-oriented, adaptable, problem-solving self-starter.
• Embrace using data to inform instructional planning and practice.
• Comfortable using Microsoft products, Google products, digital platforms and Classera.
• Experience in standards-based backward planning and the US Common Core / Ministry of Education curriculum.
• Be positive, thoughtful, passionate, articulate, motivating, and empowering with students and team members .
• Be committed to restorative justice as a means of addressing conflicts or challenges in the community, whether between students, staff members, or students and staff members
• Maintain a positive attitude and a solution-based approach to challenges in the workplace.
• Demonstrate high-level written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal skills, including a capacity to develop constructive relationships with students, parents, and teachers and other staff & contribute to the effective leadership & management of the school .