Teaching Assistant

**Description**

**Description of School**

Straits International School Rawang is part of the International Schools Partnership (ISP), a leading International Education company based in London with 80 schools across 22 countries.

Straits International School opened its doors in Oct 2018, and it currently offers high quality Cambridge education for Early Years, Primary and Secondary students in a well-equipped, purpose-built campus located at Taman sari Rawang. As a school, we pride ourselves on the level of care we give to our students. We aim to combine academic rigour with a key sense of kindness, personal responsibility, and determination to overcome challenges. Our schools have a wide range of resources and support to enhance our students’ success.

**Key benefits**
- A culture of engagement and trust, where staff contributions are recognised and valued.
- A passionate and motivated team of professionals who put children at the heart of decision-making.
- An embedded whole campus commitment to professional development and a commitment to serving others.
- A peer network of like-minded teaching colleagues and support from non-academic staff.
- Access to expertise, best practise sharing and learning opportunities across countries and cultures. A commitment to employee well-being.

**ISP Malaysia - Straits International School Rawang**
**Teaching Assistant - Role Profile**

**Purpose of Role**

We are currently looking for a qualified and experienced teacher to join our Primary School team. Our teachers form a strong, highly collaborative team, demonstrating flexibility, creativity, and flair.

**ISP Principles**
**Begin with our children and students. **Our children and students are at the heart of what we do. Simply, their success is our success. Wellbeing and safety are both essential for learners and learning. Therefore, we are consistent in identifying potential safeguarding issues and acting and following up on all concerns appropriately.

**Treat everyone with care and respect. **We look after one another, embrace similarities and differences and promote the well-being of self and others.

**Learn continuously. **Getting better is what drives us. We positively engage with personal and professional development and school improvement.

**Preamble**

**Key Responsibilities**
**Teaching**
- Be a positive role model in terms of behaviour, work, and attitudes.
- Set high standards of work and behaviour in the class and all other areas of the school.
- Plan for progression across the age and ability range you teach, designing effective lessons/programmes of work in accordance with the needs of individual learners.
- Teach challenging, well organised lessons, using an appropriate range of teaching strategies which meet individual learners’ needs.
- Use an appropriate range of observation, assessment, monitoring and recording strategies as a basis for setting challenging learning objectives and monitoring learners’ progress and levels of attainment.
- Provide timely, accurate and constructive feedback on learners’ attainment, progress and areas for development.
- Advise and work collaboratively with the Campus Principal and others on the preparation and development of teaching materials, teaching programmes, CPD, methods of teaching and assessment and pastoral arrangements as appropriate.
- Ensure that deadlines are met consistently, particularly in planning.
- Ensure that teaching and learning adhere to the ethos of the school and contains teacher strategies as advocated by the teaching team, including target setting and assessment.

**Other**
- Carry out playground and other duties as directed.
- Communicate and consult with the parents/carers of learners.
- Communicate and co-operate with any relevant external bodies.
- Be fully conversant with the school’s procedures and policies.
- Conduct a minimum of two after school activities per week.

**Professional Development**
- Regularly review the effectiveness of your teaching and assessment procedures and its impact on pupils’ progress, attainment and well-being, refining your approaches where necessary
- Be responsible for your own continuous professional development and participate fully in training and development opportunities identified by the school or as developed as an outcome of your performance management.
- Involve yourself in the CPD of others. The teaching team at SIS expect all staff to help contribute to training in an area where they are comfortable.

**Health and wellbeing**
- Establish a purposeful and safe learning environment for learners.
- Manage learners’ behaviour constructively by establishing and maintaining a clear and positive framework for discipline, in line with the school’s behaviour policy.
- Use a range of behaviour management techniques and strategies adapting them as necessary to promote self-control and independence of all learners.
- Raise all concerns regarding the behaviour, progress, or welfare/chil