Teaching vacancies
About Us:
The Language Gallery (TLG) delivers high quality language courses at a number of locations worldwide. With schools in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Berlin, Hannover, Vancouver and Toronto, we pride ourselves on our internationalism and our interactive approach to the learning process.
Job Description
Professional Expertise:
- Deliver high quality lecturing and teaching
- Assist with inspections and provide student results to management
- Maintain and update high quality class materials
- Comply with Quality Standards and Processes
- Follow our syllabus. Prepare and teach classes in the communicative pedagogical style favoured by TLG, as detailed in the teachers’ manual
Administration:
- Complete documentation as required, to a high standard
- Ensure that all TLG Health & Safety, Conduct and U18s policies are followed
- Prepare any outings thoroughly. Ensure outings and trips are linguistically meaningful
- Full preparation for the delivery of the class, should be undertaken prior to delivery
- Assist the Academic Managers with the student induction when required
Responsibility, Planning and Organisation
- Contribute to the support and guidance of new members of staff on standard information and procedures
- Ensure Marking and Second-Marking is completed within the timeframes set
- Maintain use of TLG online as homework or in class
- Attend meetings as arranged by the Academic Managers
- Consideration and respect of other colleagues and school property is upheld at all times
Quality Assurance & Service Provision
- Uses self-assessment tools provided to reflect on own performance
- Remains up to date with own CPD and attends in-house CDP
- Agrees to scheduled and spot observations
Criteria:
Essential
- CELTA/TESOL
- A degree
- At least 2 years’ experience
Desirable
- DELTA or Trinity Dip (or working towards)
- Relevant MA
- PGCE/QTS
Skills:
- Excellent communication and inter-personal skills
- Solid IT skills
- Good classroom management skills
- Ability to communicate ideas clearly and simply to a variety of groups at a variety of levels.
Knowledge:
- Excellent and relevant subject knowledge, communicative teaching methodologies and CEFR.
- Clear understanding of cross-cultural issues that may affect classroom interaction.
Should you fit the criteria, please contact one of the following:
London – Elaine Kniveton at Elaine.Kniveton@thelanguagegallery.com
Birmingham – Jenifer Langley at JLangley@thelanguagegallery.com
Manchester – Joseph Greenwood at Joseph.Greenwood@thelanguagegallery.com
Berlin & Hannover – Tuncay Yilmaz at TYilmaz@thelanguagegallery.com
Vancouver – Tara Suzanne Sikorski at Tara.Sikorski@thelanguagegallery.com
Toronto – Lea Aylett at LAylett@thelanguagegallery.com
