

I am a teacher with 25 years classroom experience and a deep love of History and politics. I am an exciting and inspiring teacher and have achieved consistently excellent results at GCSE and A level in both History and Politics. I have extensive experience of managing others, setting goals and achieving targets. I will bring excellent interpersonal skills to any role I am involved with and have a deep interest in pedagogy and how it relates to my subject.
As a Head of department I have:
-Set targets for colleagues
-Monitored the performance of staff and performed lesson observations and lined manage colleagues
-Monitored the progress of students across key stages and organised interventions to rectify underperformance
-Managed department meetings and set priorities for the department
-Set goals doe the department through annual development plans
-Been responsible for departmental trips both day rips and residential trips abroad
-Managed the budget of a department to prioritise needs of students
As Pupil premium co-ordinator I have:
-Been responsible for organising whole school insets into how PP pupils are managed and catered for
-Monitored data across departments and across the school to analyse how pupils are performing
-Organised sessions across the school for pupils to support PP students
-Been responsible for the allocation of money to support students and monitor progress
As a Classroom teacher I have:
-Maintained a comprehensive and deep understanding of the curriculum content across the key stages in History and in Politics
-Closely followed pedagogy and focused on using the most recent research to improve performance of all pupils
-Have consistently achieved positive valued added school for students
-Lesson observations have always shown that I am a teacher with extensive subject knowledge and the ability to motivate students of all ability levels
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