Job DescriptionRef no: 16/01/092

/ Teacher Role Profile – LE Teacher
Job Title / Teacher of English (Chittagong)
Directorate or Region / South Asia / Department/Country / TC, Bangladesh
Location of post / Chittagong / Pay Band / Teacher pay scale
Reports to / Senior Teacher / Duration of job / 1 year
Purpose of job
  • To promote and ensure quality teaching and effective learning of English
  • To support the wider aims of British Council and its cultural relations mission

Context and environment
The Teaching Centre offers a full range of English courses – IELTS preparation, young learners, adult general English and on/off site business English. We also offer some teacher training courses and occasionally run a CELTA.
The teaching operation in Bangladesh increasingly needs to take its products/courses closer to its customers, given the population growth in urban centres. Consequently, in Dhaka alone, we operate from 3 centres and teachers will typically teach in any of our centres/branches depending on the term and any of the products we offer, and both on and off site. Teaching operations are also being restarted in Sylhet and Chittagong.
The teaching operation currently runs courses 0830-2130 and 7 days a week and for ages 5 and upwards, however, what/where/how we teach is constantly evolving in line with customer demands and opportunities, and all teachers are expected to meet these changing needs
Teachers work a 5-day teaching week and their 2 consecutive days off will vary each term depending on the needs of the timetable/customers. Most courses are 32 hours (although there are shorter 16 hour IELTS preparation courses) and normally meet twice a week for two hours (weekdays) or once a week for four hours (Friday/Saturday). Training and development is a high priority in our work and we rely on our teachers to take an active and participative role in what the centre offers.
Teaching continues throughout the year.
Accountabilities
Support British Council’s global English strategy by
  • delivering teaching to the highest standards of ELT
  • enhancing British Council’s reputation as a world authority in ELT
  • continuing professional development and sharing of best practices

Responsibilities
  • Ensuring teaching meets learner needs and expectations
  • Ensuring teaching meets Teaching Quality standards and organisational expectations
  • Maintaining good relationships with customers and colleagues
  • Supporting the teaching centre’s activities and British Council plans

Main duties
1 / Plan, prepareand deliver high quality English language teaching that meets the needs of different customer groups taking into account individual learning styles
2 /

Monitor progress and provide regular feedback to help manage students’ performance throughout the course, and actively promote learner autonomy

3 /

Contribute to the development, evaluation, and improvement of English language courses, materials and related services, in order to meet students’ needs by actively working as a member of the teaching team

4 /

Complete teaching related administrative tasks to specified standards

5 / Actively engage in professional development and performance management to ensure quality and high standards in teaching and learning, and maintain British Council’s position at the forefront of best ELT practices
6 / Contribute to the development of lasting, mutually beneficial relationships by enhancing students’ understanding of contemporary UK
7 /

Support local marketing and promotional strategy, and assist the teaching centre team in delivering excellent customer service

8 /

Ensure safeguarding and guidelines are applied and upheld in line with standards and policy for the following areas:

  • Child protection
  • Equal Opportunity and Diversity

Health and safety

Key relationships:
Internal
  • Other teachers
  • Teaching centre management team
  • Teaching centre administration team
  • Customer services staff
  • Other wider BC teams
  • Wider EFL community
External
  • Learners
  • Parents
  • Partner schools
  • Corporate Clients

Other important features or requirements of the job
(e.g. travel, unsocial/evening hours, restrictions on employment etc)
The teaching centre is a 7-day multi on and off site operation. Flexibility and readiness to meet the changing/needs of the operation is an essential requirement of the job - for example teaching until 2130 is common, as is teaching in different centres on different days in the same week. Weekends will be 2-consecutive day but those days may vary from term to term.
Please specify any passport/visa and/or nationality requirement. / Applicants have the right to work in Bangladesh
Please indicate if any security or legal checks are required
for this role. / Local criminal record check, as required.

Person Specification

Essential / Desirable / Assessment stage
Behaviours /
  • Making it happen (essential)
  • Working together (essential)
Please note: the other behaviours below will not be assessed at interview. However, all behaviours will beused for performancemanagementpurposes.
  • Being accountable (essential)
  • Shaping the future (essential)
  • Connecting with others (essential)
  • Creating shared purpose (essential)
/ Interviewonly
Skills and Knowledge / Teaching Skills – level 1 = essential (centres can determine level if more experience required)
  • Classroom management (1) - The ability to plan, control and facilitate interaction in the classroom that is appropriate to the activity and promotes learning and takes into account different needs and abilities of learners and demonstrates an awareness of Equal Opportunities and Diversity issues.
  • Course and lesson planning (1) - The ability to prepare courses and individual lessons that fulfill course objectives, employ appropriate methodology and meet learners’ needs. In addition, lessons demonstrate cultural awareness and reflect the diversity of host country and UK.
  • Subject knowledge (1) - This refers to the ability to analyse and describe language systems (lexis, discourse, grammar and phonology) and language use (through spoken and written text) and the ability to communicate this knowledge effectively and in ways appropriate to the learners.
  • Understanding your learners (1) - This refers to the understanding that a teacher demonstrates towards their learners and of the learning process.
  • Learning technologies (1) - The ability to integrate Learning technologies into everyday classroom practice to enhance language learning.
/ Interview
Experience / 2 years post-certificate i.e. CELTA/Trinity cert TESOL experience
Experience in teaching relevant age groups :
  • Young learners aged 8 to 10 (400+ hours)
  • Young learners aged 11 to 13 (800+ hours)
  • Young learners aged 14 to 17 (400+ hours)
  • Adults General English 18+ (800+ hours)
  • Corporate Courses (800+ hours)
/ Short listing
and interview
Qualifications / First degree/or equivalent (may be waived in exceptional circumstances)
Cambridge CELTA/Trinity cert TESOL / Trinity Diploma/DELTA
Relevant YL qualification e.g.TYLEC / Shortlisting only
Submitted by / Jamie Mann / Date / 14 December 2015

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