Teacher of Design and Technology
Listed on 2026-01-16
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Education / Teaching
High School, Education Administration
What skills and experience we're looking for
Function of the Post
To plan and deliver high quality engaging and challenging teaching and learning across the full ability and age range of students, ensuring all students make rapid and sustained progress.
Principal AccountabilitiesWhat the school offers its staff
Welcome and thank you for your interest in working with us at Oakmoor School. We are a growing school and need to expand our teaching team.
If the following interests you then do keep reading…
- An additional week holiday at October half term. You will never work more than 7 weeks in a row.
- Centralised detentions
- Significantly under directed time
- Supportive SLT who are present around school every lesson every day
At Oakmoor we offer a diverse programme of professional development to enable teachers to enrich their practice in areas that they have identified and want to develop. Professional development is closely linked to our school strategic plan and individual performance management to ensure that we are improving and enhancing the school as well as individual practice.
Throughout the school year, staff participate in a Twilight programme of professional development that has a focus on key areas. All staff are given the time and opportunity to choose a theme that they would like to research and study. The results of this work are then implemented to improve and enhance an area of their practice. There are also opportunities to share this knowledge with the whole school through our meeting and INSET programme and on many occasions whole school policy and practice has been influenced by the Twilight professional development programme.
Staff are also given the opportunity to work collaboratively with other staff and departments across the school though our meeting cycle. The collaborative meetings have a clear agenda that relates to sharing good practice to enhance provision through planned learning walks, work scrutiny opportunities and discussion and debate regarding learning, the curriculum, assessment, examination technique and classroom practice.
For Early Career Teachers (ECTs), our programme has been recognised as delivering the highest grading for guidance and support for our newly qualified teachers.
Our ECTs have a mentor who works in partnership with them to ensure that they continue to develop throughout the academic year. Their mentor observes lessons and provides regular feedback on the quality of their teaching as well as offering helpful advice onhow to improve further.
This support programme continues once qualified teacher status has been achieved, as…
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