Secondary School Job of the Day!

Full time science teaching job in Lewisham, South East London. TimePlan Education in partnership with their client school are seeking to appoint a highly motivated teacher of science for immediate start. The roles would be suitable for experienced members of staff or newly qualified teachers (NQTs).

If you join as an NQT you will be part of an established and extensive NQT programme, benefiting from the support and expertise of departmental mentors including a lead teacher, a tailor-made whole school professional development programme and a support network of other NQTs across subject areas.

This is a rapidly improving 11-19 school, with 1,500 students on roll including 400 in the 6th form which has enjoyed four consecutive years of improved outcomes. Standards have been transformed across the school and this is an exciting opportunity for the right person to contribute significantly to a school improvement journey. The school moved in to its state of the art facilities in 2011. The school works closely with a number of other schools nationally through Challenge Partners and a huge range of training opportunities come through this partnership. The school is located in a green and leafy part of Lewisham close to the border with Bromley and has good transport links to Central London.

This science teaching vacancy in Lewisham, South East London requires an applicant who is able offer the following:

• Experience of teaching science
• Delivering good and outstanding teaching practices as the norm
• A willingness to form part of a successful and enthusiastic team
• Creating an enriching, supportive and high performing learning environment
• Supporting the school ethos at all times during your working days.
• You will be an imaginative and forward thinking classroom practitioner.
• You will possess excellent teaching skills and an ability to lead classes with pace and sufficient challenge.
• It is essential that you understand the schools academic standing and have a sincere commitment to sharing long-term aims.

In return we offer:

• A guaranteed minimum daily rate.
• Professional classroom support from our team of Headteacher consultants throughout the length of your contract
• A dedicated key contact at the South East office
• TimePlan South East teacher socials where you can meet professional teachers from all over the planet who are teaching at schools in your placement area
• Opportunities to aid your professional development.

If you have a strong desire to help students of all abilities to achieve the best they can, whilst fulfilling your own potential and interested in applying for this science teaching position in South East London then we would be very pleased to hear from you please apply online today or call Paul Chuter on 01732 373340 at TimePlan, the number one teaching agency for science teaching jobs in South East London and Kent.

Secondary School Job of the Day

Are you a Science Teacher, looking for a February 2016 start in Tonbridge, Kent?

TimePlan Education, working in partnership with their client school, is looking for a science teacher who has taught successfully across key stage 3 and 4. The position is a part-time contract starting February 2016. The successful candidate must be committed to achieving high standards and able to inspire students across the ability range at KS3 and KS4.

The latest judgement by Ofsted Graded this 11-18 boys academy as "good" with outstanding behaviour. It has a very experienced leadership with the Headteacher and Chief Executive both being National Leaders of Education. The academy places a strong emphasis upon learning, teaching and outstanding behaviour which has been reflected in every Ofsted report since 2000. It is a warm and vibrant community which is first choice for parents partly because of its specialist status for maths and sport. Students are renowned for their success in extra-curricular sporting activities at local and national level.

To be considered for this science teaching vacancy based in Tonbridge , Kent you will need to;

• show you are an imaginative and forward thinking classroom practitioner.
• have the willingness to form part of a successful and enthusiastic team.
• support the school ethos at all times during your working days.
• possess excellent teaching skills and an ability to lead classes with pace and sufficient challenge.

It is essential that you understand the school's academic standing and have a sincere commitment to sharing long-term aims.

In return we offer:

• professional classroom support from our team of headteacher consultants throughout the length of your contract.
• a dedicated key contact at the TimePlan South East office.
• TimePlan South East teacher socials where you can meet teachers who are teaching at schools in your placement area.
• opportunities to aid your professional development.
• pay to scale.

If you are interested in applying for this science teaching position in Tonbridge, Kent, Please apply online today or call on 01732 373340. TimePlan are the number one teaching agency for jobs in the south east.

Secondary Teaching Job of the Day!!

Are you a Science Teacher, looking for a February 2016 start in Tonbridge, Kent?

TimePlan Education, working in partnership with their client school, is looking for a science teacher who has taught successfully across key stage 3 and 4. The position is a part-time contract starting February 2016. The successful candidate must be committed to achieving high standards and able to inspire students across the ability range at KS3 and KS4.

The latest judgement by Ofsted Graded this 11-18 boys academy as "good" with outstanding behaviour. It has a very experienced leadership with the Headteacher and Chief Executive both being National Leaders of Education. The academy places a strong emphasis upon learning, teaching and outstanding behaviour which has been reflected in every Ofsted report since 2000. It is a warm and vibrant community which is first choice for parents partly because of its specialist status for maths and sport. Students are renowned for their success in extra-curricular sporting activities at local and national level.

To be considered for this science teaching vacancy based in Tonbridge , Kent you will need to;

• show you are an imaginative and forward thinking classroom practitioner.
• have the willingness to form part of a successful and enthusiastic team.
• support the school ethos at all times during your working days.
• possess excellent teaching skills and an ability to lead classes with pace and sufficient challenge.

It is essential that you understand the school's academic standing and have a sincere commitment to sharing long-term aims.

In return we offer:

• professional classroom support from our team of headteacher consultants throughout the length of your contract.
• a dedicated key contact at the TimePlan South East office.
• TimePlan South East teacher socials where you can meet teachers who are teaching at schools in your placement area.
• opportunities to aid your professional development.
• pay to scale.

If you are interested in applying for this science teaching position in Tonbridge, Kent, Please apply online today or call on 01732 373340. TimePlan are the number one teaching agency for jobs in the south east.

The Science of Resilience: How to Teach Students to Persevere By Judy Willis

In schools today, the focus is not only on helping students pass exams, but also on improving their character by making them more resilient. Resilience in learning, as in life, is about being able to persevere through setbacks, take on challenges and risk making mistakes to reach a goal.

Studies show that resilience has a positive influence on academic performance of undergraduates, as well as their social and emotional wellbeing.

It’s not always clear, however, how to develop more resilient students. I believe there are three main areas to focus on: a child’s competence, their tolerance to mistakes, and their ability to set goals. These components help young people to sustain effort even when a challenge seems too great.

Competence builds resilience

It is not uncommon for students to come to your class with past experiences that have left them feeling like they can’t move forward when a task is overwhelming. You can help them overcome that mindset by building their confidence through experiences that develop their competence.

One activity involves showing students that some things, which seem impossible or too confusing at first, can be broken down into easy-to-understand parts. Give groups of students broken (not repairable) clocks, watches, or safe (ie not sharp and unplugged) appliances or mechanical toys (eg a jack-in-the-box).

When each group has an item, first ask them to discuss how it might work. With objects of age-appropriate complexity, it is unlikely they will be confident in their initial ideas. Then invite them to take their object apart, without any requirement other than they must discover how it works. The object is to build their resilience to feeling overwhelmed by letting them discover, on their own, how complex things can be broken into parts.

The following questions and instructions might be useful (and you can modify them for your students’ age, ability and task):

1 Look at your object and discuss how it might work.
2 Now take it apart and look at what makes it work. Write down what you recognise, such as springs, screws, coils, gears, batteries or wiring.
3 When finished, write down any ideas about how the parts might work together.

When they’ve completed the task explain that children have just experienced their ability to break something down into more understandable parts.

The experience will build their competence awareness. Dividing big assignments or jobs into small tasks will give them the confidence to get started and the resilience to persevere. Invite groups to put their new awareness into mottos or posters for the classroom, for example: “By achieving one task after another, you’ll get the whole job done.”

Learning from failure

When you incorporate opportunities for students to experience mistakes as an expected part of learning, you build their resilience to setbacks. Through class discussions, your own mistakes, and building pupils’ knowledge of their brain’s programming, your students will gain the competence, optimism and understanding to persevere – and even make progress – through failure.

When students make mistakes, explain that these are not failures: they are opportunities for the brain to build a bridge that will bring them success in future. They need to understand that their brains have evolved to be survival tools: the brains of mammals in the wild adapted to make rapid decisions and choices in response to change or threat. Our human brains still have that primitive quick-response reaction to new situations – even to questions in a test. But because we are not out in the wild or in danger, instead of jumping to conclusions, we can take few seconds to be sure our brain’s first choice is the best.

More importantly, when you correct an error, your brain builds new wiring to guide you to make a better choice next time. So doing something wrong can actually be beneficial in the long-term, replacing misinformation with firm experience. The strongest understandings we have do not come from what we’ve memorised but rather from what we’ve learned from failure.

Other ways to help students see mistakes in a new light include:
• Discussing common errors made by previous students.
• Pointing out your own mistakes and acknowledging how you felt at the time. 
• Inviting your class to share their past mistakes and recognising they lived through them and can see them with the perspective of time and even humour now.

Personal meaning builds persistence

Students will engage more if they have to use the facts or procedures as tools for participating in personally relevant tasks.

One way to ensure this is by including appealing activities throughout the study unit. For example, invite students to select a recipe from a cookbook that uses standard and not metric measurements. They will want to know how to convert metric and standard measurements to make what they have chosen. The personally desirable goal of making delicious cookies or play dough will motivate them to do their sums.

http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2016/jan/12/science-resilience-how-to-teach-students-persevere

Secondary School Job of the Day!!

Science Teacher required with an immediate start

Full time science teaching job in Folkestone, Kent. TimePlan Education, is working in partnership with their client school, who are looking for an experienced Science teacher who has taught successfully across Key Stage 3, 4 and Key Stage 5. The position is a full time contract startingimmediately. The successful candidate must be committed toachieving high standards and able to inspire students across the full ability range.

This Academy on the Kent coast specialises in Art, Media and European Culture. They have been identified by Kent County Council as its Centre of Excellence in Media and the Creative Arts. Located by the sea in a traditional coastal town, this academy has excellent transport links. They have the very latest in facilities including; outstanding ICT facilities including laptop computers with wireless Internet access in all classrooms; interactive whiteboards in all classrooms; specialist facilities in every subject area; 9 science labs; 8 specialist rooms for art textiles and graphics; dance, drama and recording studios; post production suite; 4 music rooms and 6 music practice rooms; large and flexible performance space; sports hall with viewing gallery and retractable assembly seating for 800 pupils; hard play areas and all weather pitch; playing fields, cricket pitch and running track; The Park; indoor recreational space for all pupils; vocational training suites.

This Science teaching vacancy based in Folkestone, Kent requires an applicant who is able offer the following:

Experience of teaching Science to KS3, KS4and KS5

Delivering good and outstanding teaching practices as the norm

A willingness to form part of a successful and enthusiastic team

Creating an enriching, supportive and high performing learning environment

Supporting the school ethos at all times during your working days

You will be an imaginative and forward thinking classroom practitioner

You will possess excellent teaching skills and an ability to lead classes with pace and sufficient challenge.

It is essential that you understand the schools academic standing and have a sincere commitment to sharing long-term aims.

In return we offer:

Pay to scale

Professional classroom support from our team of Headteacher Consultants throughout the length of your contract

A dedicated Key Contact at the south east office

TimePlan South East teacher socials where you can meet professional teachers from all over the planet who are teaching at schools in your placement area

Opportunities to aid your professional development.

If you are interested in applying for this science teaching position in Folkestone, Kent please apply online today or call on 01732 373340, TimePlan the number one teaching agency for jobs in the south east.