Conditions of Employment of School Teachers

Professional Duties

The following duties are deemed to be included in the professional duties which a school teacher may be required to perform-

1. Teaching

a..planning and preparing courses and lessons;

b. teaching, according to their educational needs, the pupils assigned to you, including the setting and marking of work to be carried out by the pupil in school and elsewhere;

c. assessing, recording and reporting on the development, progress and attainment of pupils; in each case having regard to the curriculum of the school.

2. Other activities

a. promoting the general progress and well-being of individual pupils and of any class or group of pupils assigned to you;

b. providing guidance and advice to pupils on educational and social matters and on their further education and future careers, including information about resources of more expert advice on specific questions; making relevant records and reports;

c. making records of and reports on the personal and social needs of pupils;

d. communicating and consulting with the parents of pupils;

e. communicating and co-operating with persons or bodies outside the school;

f. participating in meetings arranged for any of the purposes described above;

3. Assessments and reports

Providing or contributing to oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual pupils and groups of pupils;

4. Appraisal

Participating in arrangements made in accordance with the Education (School Teacher Appraisal) Regulations 1991 for the appraisal of your performance and that of other teachers;

5. Review; Further training and development

a. reviewing from time to time your methods of teaching and programmes of work;

b. participating in arrangements for your further training and professional development as a teacher;

6. Educational methods

Advising and co-operating with the headteacher and other teachers (or any one or more of them) on the preparation and development of courses of study; teaching materials, teaching programmes, methods of teaching and assessment and pastoral arrangements;

7. Discipline, health and safety

Maintaining good order and discipline among the pupils and safeguarding their health and safety both when they are authorised to be on school premises and when they are engaged in authorised school activities elsewhere;

8. Staff meetings

Participating in meetings at the school which relate to the curriculum for the school or the administration or organisation of the school including pastoral arrangements;

9. Cover

Supervising, and so far as practicable teaching, any pupils whose teacher is not available to teach them;

provided that you shall not be required to provide such cover -

a. after the teacher who is absent or otherwise not available has been so for three or more consecutive days; or

b. where the fact that the teacher would be absent or otherwise not available for a period exceeding three consecutive working days was known to the Governing Body for two or more working days before the absence commenced:

unless -

(i) you are a teacher employed wholly or mainly for the purpose of providing such cover ("a supply teacher"); or

(ii) the Governing Body have exhausted all reasonable means of providing a supply teacher to provide cover without success; or

(iii) you are a full-time teacher at the school but have been assigned by the headteacher in the time-table to teach or carry out other specified duties (except cover) for less than 75 per cent of those hours in the week during which pupils are taught at the school;

10. Public examinations

Participating in arrangements for preparing pupils for public examinations and in assessing pupils for the purposes of such examinations; recording and reporting such assessments; and participating in arrangements for pupils' presentation for and supervision during such examinations;

11. Management

a. contributing to the selection for appointment and professional development of other teachers and non-teaching staff, including the induction and assessment of newly qualified teachers;

b. coordinating or managing the work of other teachers;

c. taking such part as may be required of you in the review, development and management of activities relating to the curriculum, organisation and pastoral functions of the school;

12. Administration

a. participating in administrative and organisational tasks related to such duties as are described above, including the management or supervision of persons providing support for the teachers in the school and the ordering and allocation of equipment and materials;

b. attending assemblies, registering the attendance of pupils and supervising pupils whether these duties are to be performed before, during or after school sessions.

13. Working Time

a. As a teacher employed full-time, other than in the circumstances described in sub-paragraph (c), you shall be available for work for 195 days in any year, of which 190 days shall be days on which you may be required to teach pupils in addition to carrying out other duties; and those 195 days shall be specified by your employer or, if the employer so directs, by the headteacher;

b. You should be available to perform such duties at such times and such places as may be specified by the headteacher for 1265 hours in any year, those hours to be allocated reasonably throughout those days in the year on which you are required to be available for work; (time spent in travelling to or from the place of work shall not count against the 1265 hours referred to in sub-paragraph(b);)

c. You shall not be required under your contract as a teacher to undertake midday supervision, and shall be allowed a break of reasonable length either between school sessions or between the hours of 12 noon and 2.00 p.m.;

d. Such a teacher shall, in addition to the requirements set out in sub-paragraph (a) and (b) above, work such additional hours as may be needed to enable him to discharge effectively his professional duties, including, in particular, the marking of pupils' work, the writing of reports on pupils and the preparation of lessons, teaching material and teaching programmes. The amount of time required for this purpose beyond the 1265 hours referred to in sub-paragraph (b) and the times outside the 1265 specified hours at which duties shall be performed shall not be defined by the employer but shall depend upon the work needed to discharge the teacher's duties.