Lead Practitioner - English Specialism

About the role

The Lead Practitioner - English will take a leadership role in developing, implementing, and evaluating outstanding teaching and will play a key role in school improvement. As Lead Practitioner you will:

• Support and coach staff in developing and extending their pedagogic repertoire.
• Contribute significantly to the development of schemes of work within the department.
• Model best practice in ensuring that lessons are well differentiated including providing for the least able and for the most able and gifted students.
• Assist in the strategic planning for students with special educational needs within the department.
• Model best practice in the effective use of student performance data and student and staff target setting so that this impacts on classroom practice and contributes to raising achievement.
• Lead and develop the mentoring programme for early-stage teachers within the department and contribute to whole school mentoring.