JOB DESCRIPTION – HEAD - CURRICULUM

Overview:

Neev seeks to build knowledge, self-awareness and relationships with people and the

environment to seek happy, healthy, impactful lives - keeping in line with the IB mission of

producing global citizens. A Teacher’s role at Neev is to promote and nurture the education

of young students by planning and tailoring courses of study while providing a safe and

stimulating classroom environment that is conducive to learning. Teachers at Neev need to

partner with parents, trainers and the non-teaching staff to ensure the holistic development

of the child.

Reports to – Head of School

Main working relationships - Section Head – ICSE & IB, Programme Coordinator, Subject

HODs, Teachers

Responsibilities:

Curriculum Coordination:

The Curriculum coordination role involves the responsibility for developing, implementing,
and evaluating curriculum, assessment, and instructional services. The role also evaluates
whether a school's curriculum meets students’ needs. It ensures curriculum continuity across
different sections of the school along with developing necessary transition.
The role requires to research teaching methods and techniques and develops procedures to
determine whether the programme’s goals are being met. It helps teachers become creators
of student-centred learning environments, ready to challenge, enable students to make real-
world applications and connections to their learning. The role also provides leadership for
curriculum resource adoptions, including designing staff development for helping staff gain
skills and competencies relative to the curricular changes. In this capacity, the role leads one
of the four verticals for building a sustainable institution. In the science role, this will in
addition, likely to edge into the teacher training as well. It will also include how to bring
together the required content (knowledge, skills and understanding) with social emotional
aspects and also the philosophy of the school, underpinned by assessments and governance
into an aligned framework.

a. Development and reviewing the curriculum.

- Develop the curriculum through collaboration with senior leadership, HODs and

subject teachers through the following ways:
- Assessing the educational needs.

- Provide guidance in formulating objectives and learning goals.

- Facilitate careful selection of learning experiences to accomplish these objectives.

- Facilitate sectional of rich and valuable content (where the content is flexible) through

which teachers can offer the learning experiences.
- Provide guidance in organizing and integrating learning experiences with relevant

content keeping in mind the teaching-learning process
- Assist in timely and accurate evaluation of all the above phases.

- Develop and implement policies and practices for the Curriculum.

- Monitor the progress made in achieving Curriculum plans and targets and their effects

on teaching and learning.
- Facilitate performance development of the teaching staff in the Curriculum.

- Ensure that new teachers are appropriately trained, monitored, supported, and

assessed in relation to the teaching standards and competencies.
- Align the curriculum horizontally and vertically to establish continuity and create

opportunities for transition where needed.
- Keep abreast of latest developments in the IB Curriculum and ensure section

coordinators are equipped to implement the same.
- Monitor and evaluate all curriculum documentation and provides leadership for the

development and continuous improvement of curriculum, instruction and
assessments for all programs.

b. Assessment and Reporting.

The development and implementation of a comprehensive program of assessment

for the purpose of institutional improvements. He / She must work with the

faculty, staff and administrators to develop effective strategies for the academic

assessment of student learning outcomes at the general education and program

levels. He/she will provide ongoing support for assessment activities, assist with

the analysis of assessment methods and results, and report such results to both

internal and external stakeholders.

- Work with Senior leadership to further develop the assessment plan.

- Creating a reporting / assessment tracker common across subjects populated by

teachers and maintained by respective coordinators.

- Providing guidance to coordinators to achieve validity and accuracy of assessment.

Work with the coordinator and Heads of Departments through on-going flex

workshops for programs, inter-disciplinary committees, departments, divisions, or

individuals to:





- Develop benchmarks and rubrics.

- Present assessment plan

- Work with DP Coordinator and Heads of Departments and provide assistance to:

- Collect evidence – design assessment tools, collect samples of student work.

- Analyse evidence – make summative judgments.

- Document analysis in report (develop template for reports)

- Organize necessary intervention when required.

- Provide guidance to Team leaders/HODs to collaborate with teachers to develop

quality assessments-including formative, interim and summative.

- Provide assistance in developing statistical models which can be used by

coordinators and teachers to measure impact of learning support services on

student achievement of intended learning outcomes.

- Provide assistance in developing item analysis reports as necessary to help faculty

evaluate the effectiveness of tests and test items.

- Conduct focus groups with students and/or faculty and staff to get insight into

practices that work and those that do not.

- Work with administrators to problem-solve issues that arise with assessment plan

and present solutions to appropriate bodies.

- Work with the inspection and accreditation teams and assist with

inspection/accreditation activities.

- Create reporting forms for assessment activities.

- Work with Heads of Departments to disseminate reports and archive assessment

activities.

- Oversight the maintenance of a repository for evidence and reports carried out by

section coordinators.

b. Implementation of the curriculum

- Work with staff to ensure instructional designs include research based best

practices.

- Be the day-to-day instructional leader of the school setting the vision for where

the school needs to go academically, with collaboration, support, and guidance

provided by the senior leadership.

- Provide leadership and modelling for teachers in instructional practice, including

intervention and differentiation; backwards-designed unit and lesson planning

processes; and data analysis cycles.

- Develop a clear and effective pedagogy along with senior leadership that

embodies the school’s belief that instruction must be engaging, relevant, and

rigorous; ability to clearly communicate this pedagogy with both teachers and

external stakeholders.

- Collaborate with teachers to develop long term and short-term instructional plans.

- Develop academic support programs as needed to meet students’ needs.

- Lead monthly/ bi-monthly career development and team meetings based on

teachers’ needs.

- Actively participate in the hiring of academic teachers in collaboration with the

senior leadership.

- Coordinate review and input from relevant stakeholders, including students,

teachers, administrators, the accountability committee, and board of directors.

- Support teachers to analyse data collected through summative and formative on

a regular basis to inform instructional decision-making and planning.

- Collaborate with teachers and teacher teams to support the development of

standards based, high quality instructional plans.

- Possibly observe teachers and provide feedback based on pedagogy, school

improvement plan and individual teacher goals.

- Set up peer observations for teachers to learn from others.

- Conduct demonstration lessons as needed or requested by teachers.

- Model instructional practices in the facilitation of professional development.

- Provide teachers with current resources with best practice research.

- Work with teams to support common instructional practices and alignment.

- Incorporate school expectations that foster and strengthen school culture in the

regular meetings to develop the culture of thinking.

- Build routines into professional development meetings that foster a professional

culture.

- Facilitate cross sectional meetings to develop vertical alignment across different

sections for each subject.

- Meet regularly with teachers /teams during common planning time/team

meetings or other regularly scheduled sessions to collectively discuss issues

focused on: curriculum, assessment, literacy, examination of student work,

classroom instructional.

- Evaluate the implementation of the Core and develop strategies with the

respective coordinators to ensure appropriate skill building to achieve the goals

(Core)

- Layers, from overview,



to scope and sequence and units and resources, etc.

- Interdisciplinary alignment in and pacing

- Context / conceptual clarity, and outcomes focus

- Philosophy for the curriculum for Neev's values

- Policies for Teaching / learning and assessment, leading to others

- Identification of selective cognitive processes, or core competencies that are

similar or different across learning areas

- Integrating thinking about mind and brain, helping us avoid mutually exclusive

categories of learning.

- School-based instructional strategies to help learners coordinate different

cognitive processes in the service of cultural goals such as being able to read wide

and deep across curricular areas, a core aspiration at Neev.

- Neev's definition of desired learning is about the impacts of learning, who the

students become as a result of being at Neev, is a collection of cognitive skills and

dispositions, for building culture around. Thinking of learning as a whole system,

rather than objectives and outcomes

- Integration of all this in Toddle

Whole School Contribution

- Engage in the community through attendance and participation at school events.

- Attend and contribute to Parents Information Evenings

- Assist in the preparation of appropriate Information Booklets and lead parent

workshops.

- Plan and coordinate the induction of teachers new to the country to ensure they

settle well into their new environment.

- Plan and coordinate the Inservice for new and returning teachers during the first

week of school to ensure all teachers receive the policy information required and

training needed for effective teaching and learning.

- Attend SLT and HODs/ subject leaders Meetings and ensure the smooth

communication of information.

- Involved where appropriate in policy making decisions with the senior leadership

team.

- Make contributions as required to 5-year review Action Plan

- Ensure all teachers are receiving high quality (internal and external) professional

development tailored to their individual needs.

- Be personally visible and committed across the school, demonstrating a strong,

collaborative and flexible leadership style.

- With the High School Academic Leadership Team, critically evaluate the school’s

performance through ongoing structured and strategic School Evaluation.

- Implement the performance management appraisal performance for designated

staff members.

a. Development of Self and Other

- Keep up to date with developments in educational and curriculum development and

pedagogy.

- Attend external Professional development regularly to familiarize self with new

pedagogical strategies, curriculum development and instructional coaching.

- Conduct session to pass on the learnings from external Professional development

sessions to all the staff.

- Ensure effective curriculum/learning and teaching strategies, documentation and

procedures for staff induction and integration.

- Develop and maintain a culture of high expectations for self and for others and take

appropriate action when performance is unsatisfactory, in line with whole school

policies.

- Lead training and model high quality Learning and Teaching Methods with regards to

lesson planning, mapping and quality assurance.

b. Development of Strong Science Programme

- Ensure there is continuity of skill content and concept.

- Ensure continuity in and progression of both theoretical concepts and lab-based skills.

- Liaising with eminent external members of the scientific community to develop a

culture of scientific community among the teachers and students of sciences.

- Facilitate the development of scientific enquiry into the science classes.

- Developing an understanding of the ways of knowing in the natural sciences.

- Developing an understanding of the Nature of science among the science teachers.

- Planning and designing visits and excursions to develop scientific inquisitiveness

among science teachers and students.

- Developing an understanding of the coursework and extended essay criteria and

rubric to ensure suitable skill building and assistance provided to the students.

- Facilitate development of creative assignments which meets the IB requirements and

allow development and assessment of scientific skills and dispositions.

- Creating appropriate assessments to test for skills and concepts taking away the focus

of assessment from factual learning.

- Designing a bridging Programme to provide and ensure appropriate rigor to allow

students to be ready for DP section.

- Encourage and help science teachers to plan scientific events with students in school

to develop excitement for learning and deepen their understandings.

📌 Head of curriculum (India)
🏢 Neev
📍 India