Emma Barnard

Skills

• Management of safeguarding and compliance policies
• Clear understanding of how the pastoral curriculum can be taught in English - Lessons incorporate issues of diversity and inclusion
• Effective use of SEND accommodations to generate successful outcomes;
• Strategies to develop G&T pupils;
• ESL experience
• Highly skilled & inspiring communicator – pupils, parents staff
• Literary and academic background – widely read in terms of children’s and adult fiction
• Academic focus is postcolonial, Black, feminist fiction as well as thorough knowledge of canonical classics
• Experienced at curriculum development and planning, KS2-5 and able to create engaging resources which generate successful learning outcomes;
• Use of adaptive and interactive teaching methods
• Effective use of ICT and online platforms, including distance learning when required
• Adept communicator written and spoken
• Highly experienced and successful A level teacher (examiner AQA 2018; KS5 Coordinator, 2018-2021) achieving results which outstrip those predicted by data
• Efficient and purposeful record keeping - accurate academic assessment and marking, always incorporating exam board AOs for KS4-5)
• Giving constructive feedback that helps engender progress

• Inspiring, collaborative, flexible and reliable team member
• Supportive mentor to ECTs

Lessons include the following elements:

• Facilitation of pupils’ critical thinking
• Resilience and a growth mind-set to enable progress
• Successful rapport-based behaviour management strategies;
• Motivational teaching strategies characterised by patience and empathy
• Expansion of pupils' vocabulary
• Examination preparation
• Effective use of rhetorical devices
• English comprehension providing the foundations for a deconstructive approach to texts;
• Media criticism and bias
• Essay structure and precise concise use of analytical language to create a compelling literary argument
• Composition and creative writing coaching;
• Debating and public speaking exercises