Department Head, Science, Senior School Crofton School

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Crofton House School offers a girl-centred learning environment for students from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 12. Here, students are motivated to strive for their best selves, embracing academic challenge and diverse experiences, guided by staff who know them and believe in them.

Crofton House School fosters a strong sense of community among educators, staff, students, and families. Here, everyone can contribute to the strength of our school– including you.

We offer extensive professional development opportunities, competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package. Our 10-acre campus provides modern facilities, as well as beautiful outdoor spaces and a daily connection to nature.

The Science Department at Crofton House School is distinguished by extraordinary teachers who provide a collaborative, inquiry-based, and student-centred approach to teaching. Through the Crofton House School educational program, students develop critical thinking, creative thinking, and problem‑solving skills. The teaching facilities are well equipped and offer bright and technology‑rich learning environments.

As an experienced and reflective school leader, you are able to collaborate with other leaders to develop practices and protocols that are in the best interests of the full school. You are strategic in thinking while being operationally organized and proactive. You are recognized as a skilled communicator. An instructional leader, you are able to develop the practice of other educators through observation and coaching.

As an experienced, skilled, and innovative teacher of Science, you inspire students. You are actively engaged in planning, implementing and assessing student learning. You are confident in curriculum development and demonstrate an approach to teaching that is reflective of the way in which girls learn. You optimize the resources available to you. You support all learners with diverse strategies and approaches and bring innovative solutions to learning challenges experienced by students.

Your classes are student‑centred and dynamic. Students, members of your department, colleagues and parents describe you as approachable, available, knowledgeable, genuine and supportive. You are energized by what you do. You understand the importance of parents as partners in their daughter’s education by maintaining open and collaborative relationships with the parent community. As a lifelong learner, you demonstrate a commitment to actively seeking professional development, to continuously reflect on your practice and to collaborating with your colleagues to maximise student learning.

You participate actively in the life of the school.

You will find the school to be a professional learning centre. In addition to spending an engaging day with students who are genuinely interested in learning, thinking and playing, teachers are provided with dedicated work time as part of their daily schedule to plan and work collaboratively with others.

• Promote a collegial teaching and learning environment with and beyond the department.
• Collaborate with all Senior School Departments Heads, Program Coordinators and the Assistant Director of Teaching and Learning to implement an unified vision for teaching and learning in the Senior School that is aligned with the school’s strategic direction.
• Collaborate with teachers in the department/program and Junior School subject‑specific teachers to develop subject‑specific curricular scope and sequence from Grade 1 to Grade 12.
• Manage a department/program budget from initial request to year‑end reconciliation
• As the instructional leader for the department/program, engage in the ‘Teacher Professional Growth Plan’ of all department/program members through observation and documented conversations.
• Support curricular evening presentations, such as Curriculum Night and Course Planning and Selection Evening.
• Support constructive engagement of parents in the curricular program.

• Bring a student‑centred, inquiry‑based, and collaborative approach to the delivery of…