Job Description:
Role of Teacher Coordinators:
The Teacher Coordinator plays a key leadership role in welcoming and supporting Student Teachers, meeting with Student Teachers and Mentor Teachers. The Teacher Coordinator’s role includes:
1. Developing a creative learning community across the school
to have knowledge, understanding and enthusiasm for creative teaching and learning as a key to raising achievement, aspiration and motivation
2. to build a community of creative learning practice across the school, involving all departments as appropriate
3. to involve parents, Governors and other members of the community extensively throughout the programme
4. to develop, through dialogue with the wider school community, an enquiry based approach which addresses a range of issues relevant to the broader developmental needs of the school and its learners and is linked to the school improvement plan
5. to facilitate the long-term development of creative teaching and learning at a structural and systemic level, using the Creative School Development Framework and other resources
6. to establish a Creative Partnerships programme plan on an annual basis, linked to the Creative School 7. Development Framework self-assessment process Programme and project management
to act as a facilitator in school, able to translate the school’s vision for creative learning into practical implementation.
8. to ensure that children and young people play a meaningful and active role in learning that can truly reflect their interests, needs and enthusiasms.
