Key Responsibilities
1. Academic Facilitation
The teacher must:
- Facilitate learning according to the ACE curriculum and school policies.
- Assist learners in setting realistic daily academic goals.
- Monitor learner progress in PACEs across all required subjects.
- Ensure learners understand instructions, concepts, and academic expectations.
- Provide individual support and explanation where learners struggle.
- Encourage learners to work independently while maintaining academic accountability.
- Check that scoring, corrections, Checkups, Self Tests, and PACE Tests are completed correctly.
- Prepare learners for assessments and ensure mastery before testing.
- Monitor reading, writing, spelling, mathematics, comprehension, and study skills.
- Encourage consistent academic progress and responsible work habits.
2. Classroom and Learning Centre Management
The teacher must:
- Maintain a calm, structured, disciplined, and productive learning environment.
- Ensure learners follow ACE Learning Centre procedures and school rules.
- Monitor learner behaviour and apply the school’s discipline policy fairly and consistently.
- Encourage respect, responsibility, diligence, self-discipline, and independence.
- Supervise learners during class time, breaks, assemblies, devotions, and school activities when required.
- Keep the classroom or Learning Centre organised, neat, and suitable for effective learning.
- Manage transitions, testing procedures, scoring stations, and resource use effectively.
3. ACE Procedures and Administration
The teacher must:
- Follow all ACE procedures and school academic policies.
- Ensure learners use goal cards correctly and honestly.
- Monitor PACE completion, scoring, corrections, Checkups, Self Tests, and final PACE Tests.
- Maintain accurate academic records and progress tracking.
- Record marks, merits, demerits, attendance, interventions, and learner concerns.
- File completed PACEs, tests, reports, and academic evidence according to school requirements.
- Prepare progress reports and academic feedback when required.
- Identify learners who are behind target and report concerns to management timeously.
4. Learner Support and Development
The teacher must:
- Support learners academically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually.
- Identify learning barriers, academic gaps, poor work habits, or behavioural concerns early.
- Provide intervention, explanation, encouragement, and follow-up support.
- Develop learners’ confidence, independence, responsibility, and study discipline.
- Encourage Biblical values, Christian character, honesty, respect, and perseverance.
- Support learners in developing problem-solving, time management, and self-management skills.
- Escalate serious academic, behavioural, emotional, or safeguarding concerns to management.
5. Parent Communication
The teacher must:
- Communicate professionally with parents regarding learner progress, conduct, and work habits.
- Attend parent meetings when required.
- Provide clear and constructive feedback on strengths, concerns, and areas for improvement.
- Keep communication factual, respectful, and aligned with school procedures.
- Escalate serious concerns to management before formal parent communication where required.
- Support parents with guidance on homework, reading, study habits, and learner accountability.
6. Planning and Preparation
The teacher must:
- Prepare the classroom, resources, testing materials, and academic records before lessons begin.
- Plan daily routines, devotions, academic monitoring, intervention time, and enrichment activities.
- Prepare additional support activities where needed, especially for literacy and numeracy gaps.
- Monitor learner pacing to ensure curriculum targets are met.
- Participate in school planning, staff meetings, training, moderation, and professional development.
- Assist with school events, assemblies, assessments, and extracurricular activities when required.
7. Professional Conduct
The teacher must:
- Uphold the Christian ethos and values of the school.
- Maintain confidentiality regarding learners, parents, staff, and school matters.
- Dress and behave professionally.
- Follow all school policies, procedures, and management instructions.
- Work respectfully with colleagues, learners, parents, and leadership.
- Be punctual, reliable, organised, and committed to excellence.
- Model integrity, patience, diligence, and Christ-centred leadership.
Minimum Requirements
- Relevant teaching qualification, preferably Intermediate Phase.
- Experience in Intermediate Phase teaching.
- Knowledge of or willingness to be trained in the ACE curriculum.
- Strong classroom management skills.
- Good administrative and record-keeping ability.
- Strong communication skills.
- Computer literacy.
- Commitment to Christian education and Biblical values.
- SACE registration, where applicable.
Key Skills and Competencies
- Ability to facilitate individualised learning.
- Strong organisational and planning skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Ability to track academic progress accurately.
- Good discipline and classroom control.
- Ability to support learners with different academic needs.
- Strong literacy and numeracy support skills.
- Patience, empathy, and emotional maturity.
- Professional communication with parents and staff.
- Positive attitude and willingness to learn.
Working Conditions
The teacher will work during normal school hours and may be required to attend staff meetings, parent meetings, training sessions, school events, devotions, assemblies, assessments, and extracurricular activities as required by management.
Performance Indicators
The teacher’s performance will be measured by:
- Learner academic progress and PACE completion.
- Accuracy and completeness of academic records.
- Effective implementation of ACE procedures.
- Classroom discipline, order, and productivity.
- Quality of learner support and intervention.
- Parent and management feedback.
- Punctuality, reliability, and professionalism.
- Contribution to the Christian ethos and values of the school.
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Work Location: In person
