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Teacher of Geography (Maternity Cover)

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and passionate Teacher of Geography for a fixed-term maternity cover role. The successful candidate should be hard-working, and an inspirational classroom practitioner with the ability to motivate students.

Our intent in Geography is to promote the vitally important role that Geography plays in understanding how the world works from an integrated and synoptic physical and human perspective.

We also aim to highlight the sustainable roles our students can play within the world’s increasingly globalised systems. Our MYP programme is not just a springboard to GCSE and our IBCP programme but also aims to develop all our students into becoming well-rounded adults who can contribute positively to their local and global community.

Knowledge and understanding, communication, critical thinking, analysis, and investigation are at the core of our 21st century curriculum. We will support our students to develop the essential employability, and transferable skills gleaned from the study of this facilitating subject. The diversity of skills and curriculum content will be constantly adjusted to reflect the changing nature of our world and it’s dynamic forces.

Our curriculum will both reflect and learn from the diverse cultural mix of our IB World school community and also help to enhance our pupil’s cultural capital through the extensive range of topics, projects, and themes it will cover. We will also tackle difficult, ethical, topical, and sometimes controversial issues in a balanced and principled manner which will give the pupils the opportunity to discuss and debate social, moral, and cultural questions they may have.

Our aspiration is to deliver a dynamic and modern Geography curriculum in such a way that it fosters an environment and attitude that allows broadminded, confident and independent learners to flourish. We will set high standards and aspirational targets whilst ensuring that the needs of all learners are supported inside and outside of the classroom.

There are four main foci within our Geography curriculum that will begin in our MYP programme and develop through GCSE and lead into our IBCP study:

Global knowledge and understanding of locations, places, environments, processes & geographical features

Understanding of the interactions between people and environments, changes over time and spaces, and the interrelationships between geographical phenomena.

Competence in a range of skills, including those associated with fieldwork, the use of digital sources, and applying sound investigation techniques to a range of hypothesis, sources of information, and diverse question types.

The application of geographical knowledge, understanding, skills and the use of evidence from real world contexts and contemporary situations to disagree well, develop arguments, and analyse situations, making well justified decisions.

There will be a balance between human, physical, and environmental geography throughout our MYP programme. There will also be studies covering a range of places and scales. The theme of sustainability will feature throughout. We will follow the Edexcel specification at GCSE and the IBCP diploma level programme at KS5.

Co-Curricular And Enrichment Opportunities

•We run an eco-club for our sustainably minded students to get involved and try to make our Academy a more sustainable environment.

•We currently visit Eastbourne and the East of London and the Docklands with our GCSE students and take our 6th form on a residential trip to Southwold

•We are looking to expand our provision and opportunities for trips and visits in the near future

We reserve the right to make an appointment before the closing date, so early applications are encouraged.

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The Skinners’ Kent Academy Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants are subject to an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check and satisfactory employment references.