Students’ Achievements and Wellbeing
- Planning, teaching, and co-teaching
– Plan and teach well-structured and engaging lessons in accordance with the relevant pacing guide that correspond to school standards;
– Adapt and tailor teaching to meet the needs of individual students, creating a student-centered environment so that all are appropriately supported and challenged;
– Co-teach/Assist foreign IP teachers in the classroom for Homeroom classes;
– To liaise with other teachers to ensure learning support needs are addressed and support high quality learning;
– Conduct tutorials for underachieving students;
– Assist students to develop and implement an appropriate plan for academic improvement when student performance is consistently below expectations;
– Cover lessons for absent teachers when needed.
– Provide students with high quality and timely feedback that enables them to know where they are and what they need to do to improve;
– Design a wide range of formative and summative assessment tools to evaluate student learning including, but not limited to, worksheets, homework, tests;
– Provide assessment and achievement information/data as required for tracking and reporting purposes;
– Conduct placement test for prospective students.
– Establish strong communication links with parents to become an effective first point of contact;
– Work closely with subject teachers to communicate with parents on academic or social matters, including follow up on reports, parents’ meetings etc.;
– Initiate campaigns/workshops to strengthen connection between parents and UTS.
– Maintain a purposeful and safe learning environment for all students;
– Promote the general progress and wellbeing of individual students and of UTS community;
– Alert appropriate staff to problems experienced by students and make recommendations as to how these may be resolved and contribute to the preparation of action plans and other support mechanisms.
– Give feedback on the school curriculum when necessary;
– Assist in the development and revision of the school’s syllabi and materials if needed.
– Promote and incorporate UTS Core Values – Integrity, Respect, Courage, Contribution, Lifelong Learning, and Creativity – into daily lessons, activities, and campaigns;
– Be a living example embodying UTS Core Values.
Extracurricular activities, events, and campaigns
– Offer exciting extracurricular activities and clubs that support the holistic development of students;
– Be involved in the organization and delivery of events, festivals, assemblies, etc;
– Contribute to UTS and IP annual Action Plan.
3. Professional Development
– Embrace all opportunities to develop knowledge and understanding through internal and external PD or sharing workshops/events/campaigns;
– Comply and contribute to the UTS quality improvement plan: mentor observation, peer observation, self-reflection, etc.;
– Proactively participate in sharing sessions/workshops to contribute to the progress of the whole IP team.
4. Administration and School Policy
– Attend team/department/school meetings to get updates on codes, regulations, and policy;
– Read, check and collate student reports;
– Understand and comply staff and department handbooks as well as policy and guidance documents.
– Any other reasonable task assigned by the Principal/Manager/Mentor Teacher
