Full-time: 35 hours per week
Open-ended: permanent
We invite applicants who share our values and commitments to education to join our vibrant teacher education community and work with us to help make a difference.
The Opportunity:
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to sector-leading Teacher Education provision for Moray House School of Education and Sport in the area of secondary education. The post holder will make a significant contribution to the leadership, development and design of teaching, curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment across the Secondary Education curriculum. The post holder will have established research informed practices, scholarship and expertise in one or more of the following areas:
- Curriculum development and curriculum making for 21st Century
- Assessment practices as/for/of learning
- Pedagogy
The role holder will have lead responsibility for teaching and developing curriculum in one of the following secondary curriculum areas and will require appropriate GTCS Registration:
(other relevant cognate specialisms may be considered depending on candidate skill set and experience)
We welcome applications from candidates who can bring research informed critical understanding of curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and the role of the teacher, and an understanding of key principles of equity, inclusion, social justice and sustainability and their relevance for education, as these are core dimensions of our portfolio.
Candidates will have knowledge and understanding of the Scottish Education system and the Broad and General Education and Senior phase and will be able to refer to research and scholarship in these areas. Post holders on a Teaching and Scholarship track will be expected to plan a continuous programme of scholarship through developing their research and evidence informed practices and knowledge-exchange activities as relevant to role.
The appointee will join the Institute of Education, Teaching and Leadership which has oversight of the School’s portfolio of teacher education.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Being registered as Secondary teacher with the General Teaching Council of Scotland, or eligible to register in one of the subject specialist areas noted in Job Purpose or relevant cognate area. For applicants who qualified as a teacher outside Scotland please see here for information on GTCS registration https://www.gtcs.org.uk/registration/apply-as-a-teacher/qualified-outside-scotland-teacher/ ). Applicants not eligible for GTCS registration will not be considered.
- Established credibility and significant experience in at least 1 of the curricular areas noted in job purpose, making a demonstrable impact at school, local authority or national level, and/or within Teacher Education in a Higher Education context.
- Demonstrate a critical, informed, creative and scholarly capacity to engage with students and work collaboratively with colleagues and external partners.
- Demonstrate research informed knowledge, understanding and experience of one or more of following areas: curriculum design, pedagogy, and/or assessment practices.
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.
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