Plan and deliver English language lessons which are both challenging and stimulating, to a range of international students attending St Clare’s Summer. Courses.

• Deliver 25 lessons per week that are appropriate to the level, interests, and needs of the learners in each class, maintaining a suitable balance of instructor input and student involvement.
• Deliver each class with energy and enthusiasm, aiming high, and providing a learning experience that is both challenging and engaging.
• Bring creativity and variety to the weekly programme in-line with weekly themes or the course map and in consultation with the Academic Manager and other instructors, using a combination of course book and photocopied materials, appropriate use of audio-visual aids, and incorporating study visits into the afternoon programme where suitable to promote a learning outcome.
• Contribute specialist skills to the project classes (Active Language Projects of the Interactive English course, study/cultural visits of the Interactive English Closed Groups and Projects/Skills classes of the Intensive English course for example), according to the students’ interests and requirements, including: ‘top tips’ for IELTS or Cambridge exams, Oxford in Literature, pronunciation workshops, learner training activities, reading strategies, global issues debates, etc.
• Assist with placement testing and student orientation on the first Monday of each onsite course as required. 7. To monitor progress through questionnaires in the first and last week of each course.
• Attend staff meetings for onsite courses each morning as directed by the Academic Manager, and to participate in instructor development workshops on some Friday afternoons as appropriate for onsite courses.
• Complete end of course reports and certificates for each student in the main class and present them to students in the leaving ceremonies on Fridays for onsite courses.
• Be actively involved in the provision of ‘duty of care’, including completing risk assessments for study visits, monitoring student behaviour around the campus, encouraging integration in and out of the classroom as appropriate etc.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualification – CELTA or equivalent, plus relevant experience
• Desirable Qualification – DELTA or equivalent, or Qualified Teacher Status
  

Personal skills and attributes

• Enthusiastic, reliable, and flexible, keeping the students’ best interests in mind at all times
• Prepared and able to teach online as well as face-to-face (E)