French Teacher

**Secondary School Teacher
**OVERALL PURPOSE OF THE POSITION**
- Barker College aims to foster a love of learning that inspires the heart, mind and soul of each student _
- through a diverse and challenging curriculum (Pre-K-12), catering for individual interest and capacity. _

**GENERAL DUTIES OF A BARKER COLLEGE SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHER**

One of the distinctive differences that makes Barker different is that we deliberately and intentionally allow
people to thrive in a holistic sense - emotionally, physiologically, physically, academically. It’s about all of
those things that form together to make our students fully formed human beings. This requires a lot of
support from our staff to make this happen. However, it also allows staff to see students in a different light
outside of regular class time and therefore provides an opportunity to develop a relationship that helps
students to thrive. Consequently there is an expectation that staff will undertake a number of duties that are
in addition to their allocated classroom teaching load. These may include:
In addition to an allocated classroom teaching load, the normal duties of Secondary School Teachers

may include:

- sports coaching and sport-related duties both during the week and at weekends, or broadly
- equivalent duties in association with other educational, cultural, recreational or community

service-related co-curricular activities;
- playground and other supervisory duties including supervising students at inter-School

sporting carnivals and sporting events;
- rostered detention duties including detentions on Friday afternoons and Saturdays if required;
- attendance at parent/guardian / teacher evenings and society staff meetings and staff

briefings;
- attending School camps, retreats and excursions including overnight excursions;
- attending to administration and assembly duties;
- attendance at Chapel.
- Pastoral care responsibilities;
- attending and participating in School-designated professional development training and/or

meetings; and
- attendance at significant events in the life of the School such as the end of year _Celebration_

and special Chapel services and other special events which may occur from time to time.

The particular duties of Secondary School Teachers/Librarians at Barker College, which include

rostered evening, weekend and School holiday work, are separately set out in their Position

Description.

A Part-Time Secondary School Teacher shall undertake the normal duties described above including

pastoral care duties and co-curricular duties, depending on their face to face teaching load as

required by the School over the course of the term or year. The School will attempt to assist a Part
- Time Secondary School Teacher to meet these requirements by consulting with the Secondary

School Teacher regarding the timing of such commitments.

**Curriculum Division**

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If a Part-Time Secondary School Teacher is required to attend duties on a day they do not normally

attend, and that attendance is in addition to their normal pro rata duties, the Secondary School

Teacher shall be paid for such attendance at the appropriate casual rate.

**PRIMARY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES OF A SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHER**

Secondary School Teachers are required to undertake a range of responsibilities. This section is

intended to clarify those duties.
- A normal teaching load for Secondary School Teachers at Barker College, under the present

timetabling arrangements, is the equivalent of 35 teaching periods across each 10 day cycle,

averaged across the School year. From time to time, a Secondary School Teacher may be

required to teach in excess of 35 periods per cycle, to meet timetabling needs. Other duties

may be adjusted to reflect the additional teaching load.
- In addition to the normal teaching load, a Full Time or Part Time Secondary School Teacher

may expect to be rostered for a set minimum number of periods per cycle to provide

supervisory cover for absent Secondary School Teachers (called Sups). If a Secondary

School Teacher’s normal timetabled teaching load is 35 periods or less per cycle, or the

equivalent pro rata for a Part Time Secondary School Teacher, then the School may at its

discretion add Sups to their Teaching load.
- Secondary School Teachers are required to undertake playground supervision, and other

supervision as required, such as of students in Detention or the like, as rostered by the

Deputy Head - Student Experience.
- It is an expectation that every Secondary School Teacher will attend at least one Chapel

service per week, whether or not they are specifically accompanying a pastoral care group for

which they have responsibility. Part-time Secondary School Teachers attend Chapel on a day

when they are in attendance at School.

The Grange as scheduled through the School year. The current arrangements are:

- Secondary School Teachers are requested to volunteer to attend camps organised by