Senior Teacher YL- Cairo

Job Description

Role: Senior Teacher Young Learners
Location:Cairo, Egypt
Duration: 24 Months

Job Overview

The Teaching Centres in Egypt run three YL terms of 10 weeks each through the year, followed by intensive courses in the summer months. In addition, there are 8 Adult terms of 5 weeks each through the year. Teachers are contracted to teach 25 contact hours per week - including breaks taken during each class. The timetable means that most teachers teach either over 5 days each week or 4 days with 1 (non-teaching) workday. YL classes run on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

Young Learner courses are delivered across all three life stages – Early Years, Primary and Secondary. Early Years classes are currently delivered in our Agouza and Heliopolis centres. The Adult programme is primarily General English with some Conversation and IELTS preparation classes, as well as extra skills sessions which students can attend alongside their regular classes.

Role Purpose

To ensure the British Council maintains its reputation as the highest quality provider of English Language Teaching by providing effective support to the management of Egypt Young Learner products and services, making a contribution to the development and expansion of the YL business. To maintain and enhance professional development and academic quality in the teaching centre, and ensure that British Council Egypt is an example of UK ELT best practice.

Main Accountabilities:

Performance management

• Provide effective line management support for staff managed as per current teacher performance management guidelines, policies and procedures
• Ensure that all teaching is delivered to standards set out in teachers Role Profiles, the Statement of Approach and Teaching Skills framework documents

Learning and development

• Contribute to the design and implementation of an annual training schedule, taking into account Teaching Centre needs
• Actively identify appropriate opportunities for staff learning and development.
• Ensure teachers are compliant with all mandatory online training (including Health and Safety, Safeguarding and Child Protection). Provide any mandatory F2F training necessary.
• Act as a role model for good classroom practice by encouraging teachers to observe you teaching, doing demonstration lessons and leading teacher development sessions.
• Delegate te development of appropriate training/teacher development sessions (according to life stage and centre needs) to advance teachers
• Provide or set up mentoring programmes for new teachers/teachers teaching new life stages etc where appropriate.
• Agree own personal development plan and review with line manager
• Routinely monitor developments in ELT theory and practice and bring these to the attention of your teaching team through presentations, practical sessions, recommended reading etc.
• From time to time, represent the British Council at local ELT conferences
• Proactively look for opportunities to highlight examples of best practice within the centre and externally