Primary Class Teacher

Primary Class Teacher

Highly experienced and talented teacher needed to be a Class Teacher in Primary Section teaching English, Mathematics, Science, Global Perspectives, Humanities, and Personal Social Health Education which will be a maximum of 24 teaching periods per week.

Reports to Head of Department/Section Head

The class teacher has a critical role to play in the development of the cognitive, motor, psychomotor and affective domains of a child as well as the development of the school. He/she is always in daily contact with the students in the class and plays a denominator part in fostering and bolstering positive approaches to work, the school, and the community as a whole. The role of the class teacher is instrumental in setting the momentum for the day ahead and ensuring a serene, focused, disciplined and harmonious approach.

The class teacher roles are:

Registration

• Correctly mark student attendance registers daily.
• Record absence and collect absence letters from students.
• Monitor students’ attendance records to curb truancy and tardiness.
• Ensure that students are seated during registration.
• Alert other teachers and administration on individual student lateness and patterns of absence.
• Seek audience with parents to discuss matters of attendance and academic progress.

General Duties

• Organize the class notice boards, record merit slips, collect reply slips, and complete records of achievement.
• Ensure maintenance of a tidy and stimulating environment with a focus on the care of personal and school property within the classroom and school.
• Organize election of form monitors.
• Provide information to colleagues, parents, and management about issues affecting students.
• Attend annual team meetings.

Links to Learning

• Assess student progress through students, parents, various meetings, and reports.
• Accompany students to assembly and ensure that they enter quietly and orderly.
• Encourage positive communication between home and school, whilst liaising with the school coordinator. 
• Play an important role in clarifying to students the consequences of infringing the rules and regulations.
• Check personal effects such as uniform, essential equipment, topic outlines, revision topics, examination timetable, and other materials, their use, and condition. 
• Make a professional observation of students’ behavior, appearance, friendships, or any significant changes that are likely to require action or intervention.
• Help form members develop a behavior contract with a focus on specific behavioral problems and benefits for achieving the student goals.
• Promote and safeguard the welfare of the students that fall under his/her responsibility.
• Extend formal and informal counseling to students and induct new students.
• Maintain and uphold school standards of punctuality, correct uniform, and appropriate dress.
• Encourage the development of ideas and opinions in ways to encourage student participation in community work.
• Perform such other duties that the school coordinator and principal may from time to time assign him/her.