CATS Global Schools Hiring for English Language Teacher Job at London, England Full Time

Stafford House is a global company with schools based in the UK and Canada, but also our sales team based around the world recruiting great students! Our missions is to educate, inspire and help our students enjoy our cities, empowering them with confidence to realise their personal potential. We offer a true experience for our students and it takes dedicated and special employees to help deliver that. Our ‘Lions’ are part of the Stafford House family from the start as we quickly integrate people into the team and look to build individual skills to allow them to truly excel in their role and push onto greater things. Once a Lion!

Stafford House International is part of CATS Global Schools, a leading education group committed to inspiring the next generation of world shapers.

The group brings together 16 institutions that provide students around the globe with the education they need to develop real life skills for the future. Our dedicated team of pioneering, persevering people, including teachers and welfare specialists, work together to create a positive environment so that every student achieves their full potential.

OVERVIEW OF THE JOB

Stafford House School of English provides intensive English language courses to foreign students enrolled at the school. EFL teachers at Stafford House School of English may be asked to teach on any one of our courses depending on experience and qualifications

MAIN RESPONSABILIITES OF THE JOB

Teaching EFL classes as per timetable

Our timetable may vary and so flexibility is required from all staff. Classes may include (but is not limited to) the following:

 General English from Beginner to Advanced level

 Exam preparation classes (IELTS and Cambridge exams)

 Business English

 Academic English

 English for specific purposes

 Excursion or project courses

 Option courses as agreed with the Director of Studies

 Online Lessons

Some classes may be for young students from age 14 and so must be adapted accordingly.

Class preparation

Each teacher will be responsible for preparing their classes in advance and drawing up a Scheme of Work that will be displayed in the classroom and will be available online (via Symba) as a record of work covered by each student.

Teachers are encouraged to share teaching resources with each other to provide a supportive learning environment for both our staff and our students.

Training and Development

Stafford House School of English will support all staff in their training and personal development needs. A full induction will be provided to all new teachers, and regular training will be offered. All teachers are expected to attend fortnightly INSET sessions, and teachers will be asked to run development or training sessions as required.

Regular classroom observations will take place to support personal development, to assess performance and to review the courses that we run. DELTA qualified teachers may be asked to carry out observations and give feedback to colleagues.

Development Hours

Permanent teachers are expected to complete a certain number of development hours per week. These can be used towards any activities that help develop the school or contribute to the teacher’s own continuing professional development (exclusive of regular lesson planning). Teachers will have regular meetings with the DoS to set objectives and measure progress towards those objectives.

Other

As we are responsible for students under the age of 18 every member of staff has a duty of care to the students in our school.

Teachers are encouraged to become involved in the students’ social programme and will be paid accordingly either for organisation and planning or for leading events.

When teaching on the closed group programme teachers will be asked to participate in activities and excursions as agreed with the social co-ordinator.

Teachers are expected to be on site no later than 15 minutes before the start of their first lesson.

Further details can be found in the Teachers’ Handbook. These responsibilities may be subject to change over time.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

The job requires that you have:
 Degree or equivalent

 CELTA or equivalent (essential)

 DELTA or equivalent (preferred)

 Experience of English for Academic Purposes (preferred)

 Experience of teaching for exam preparation (preferred)

 Experience of teaching using Interactive Whiteboards (Promethean)

 Commitment to delivering high quality lessons

 Creative lesson content and design

 A desire to continue to develop professionally

 Enthusiasm and commitment to working as a team

 Working knowledge of all Microsoft Office packages

 Experience of working with under 18s

 Flexibility

OUR COMMITMENT TO INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY

We are committed to diversity, inclusion and belonging. Building on our core values – Pioneering, Persevering, People – we pledge to deliver a series of events, guests speakers and focus groups to ensure we offer respect and understanding to all communities

AND FINALLY

Stafford House and CATS Global Schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and expect everyone connected with the organisation to share this commitment. All positions are subject to safer recruitment Pre Employment Checks in line with KCSIE guidelines.