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Welcome to the Teacher Talent Team and thank you for considering this exciting and innovative career option. The Talent Team is a new concept for Birmingham and different model for teacher employment. The world of education is changing and there has never before been so many kinds of career futures for teachers in Birmingham. The Talent Team experience will help you identify the kind of future that suits you and actively position you for success.

On the programme you will find yourself working within a team of like-minded, vibrant, self-motivated and adventurous colleagues at up to five different schools in a variety of contexts and locations in the Birmingham area.

WELCOME

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You will have the opportunity to reflect on your experiences every term with your personal career coach who will help you to define the skills you have gained through each experience. Together you can track your progress towards the kind of future you dream of.

This brochure explains a little more about how the programme will work and what you can get out of it. If you would like to know more or to register interest please call 0203 422 6511 or email talentteam@educate.co.uk for an invitation to one of our open days in Birmingham in September and November, where you can meet with potential colleagues and hear more about this unique and exciting career opportunity.

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PartnershipSupported by Birmingham City Council Schools HR, the

Birmingham Education Partnership (which is chaired by

Baroness Morris), the Teaching Schools and Educate, the

Teacher Talent Team is an exciting and unique employment

and career management programme for talented teachers

seeking to broaden their experience and secure their future

career goals.

PermanenceIt is a three year programme, during which you will

be permanently employed on the Team at a pay point

determined by the statutory teachers’ pay and conditions

and will reflect your level of experience too. You will have

the opportunity to work up to five differentiated rotations

within predefined schools in Birmingham.

Challenge and VarietyEach rotation is designed and managed by designated

schools within the Teaching School Alliance to give you

exposure to a particular teaching context. Together these

placements will provide you with both breadth and depth

of knowledge about today’s varied education landscape

and equip you with the skillset you need to become a highly

versatile teaching professional.

Career ManagementDuring the programme you will have access to your own

personal career agent from Educate for termly career

coaching, counselling and planning, and as a supportive

point of contact during each placement.

Induction and CPDAlthough you will be working at different schools, you will

have the opportunity to meet your colleagues on the Talent

Team across the city at regular intervals starting with a

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dedicated induction day when the career management

programme will be fully outlined and you will undertake

a current skills audit. This will be followed by regular

CPD days, in addition to those provided at school level,

to encourage you to share and learn from each others’

experiences, and to enhance the skills you need to fulfil your

career aspirations.

Retention Incentives on Programme CompletionAfter three years, you will have condensed into a relatively

short period of time all kinds of teaching experience

in all kinds of schools and this gives you several career

advantages. In addition, as a reward for completion of the

programme you could have:

• A fast track into management or senior practitioner

• Your pick of permanent available employment within

participating schools

• Funding for further study

• A retention incentive on completion of the programme

More importantly, you will have capitalised on your talent in

a vibrant and forward-looking city.

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TALENT TEAMBenefits

• A learning community: Birmingham has the

highest proportion of Teaching Schools in the UK.

• A young city: Birmingham has the highest number of

young people under the age of 30 of all the UK urban areas,

guaranteeing that good teachers will always be employable.

• Birmingham schools are empowering: in

September schools have taken responsibility for their

own performance and improvement through the

medium of the Birmingham Education Partnership,

giving educators the chance to influence their future.

• Birmingham schools achieve: 80% of the city’s

schools are Good or Outstanding. As part of the Local

Authority and Birmingham Education Partnership

mission to secure a deeply good academic, social and

civic education for every child and young person living in

Birmingham, it is the aspiration to make all Birmingham

schools Good or Outstanding.

• Variety and security: a three year programme of

permanent employment covering three to five different

types of challenge with each stamped in a ‘career passport’.

• Community: regular team-building and shared

experiences with your Talent Team colleagues.

• A managed career portfolio: with documentary

evidence for a career passport.

• Meaningful appraisal process: against Talent

Team standards, with creative and robust CPD

opportunities.

• Personalised career advocacy: access to

dedicated provision of career counselling, coaching

and termly review sessions, career support to broker

next role, a personalised, single point of contact career

management service and high quality mentoring.

• Loyalty incentives

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Hearing

• A multitude of different

languages being spoken.

• One of the world’s greatest

orchestras, the City of

Birmingham Symphony

Orchestra (CBSO), performing

in Symphony Hall.

• Birdsong and Bhangra in our

numerous award winning parks

and green spaces.

• Tills ringing in our many and

varied shopping malls.

Seeing

• The city skyline, displaying a

mixture of the traditional and the

ultra-modern, from the creative.

• Faces from all over the world.

• Elite sportsmen and women

performing at Edgbaston,

Alexandra stadium and National

Indoor Arena (NIA).

• Festivals of food, art, dance,

science and technology.

Doing

• Every sport imaginable in a range

of centres and venues.

• Travelling locally and internationally.

• Studying at one of our many

universities.

• Visiting theatres, concert halls,

museums, galleries, places of

worship.

• Exploring the vibrant nightlife.

Tasting

• Food from all around the world in

our huge range of restaurants and

eateries.

• In the famous Birmingham Balti

Triangle, the curry capital of the UK.

Chocolate in the home city

of Cadbury’s.

• Fine dining in one of our many

Michelin starred restaurants.

Feeling

• Cosmopolitan, inclusive, urbane,

proud and inspired.

ALL KINDS OF BIRMINGHAM Living and working here you could be:

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Accommodation in Birmingham

• A typical family-size semidetached house in

Birmingham costs £163K, whilst flats can be had

for £115k.

• Typical rental costs would be £400-£600 PCM for a

2 bed, £700-£900 for a 3 bed and £800+ for a 4 bed.

• We will help you find your footing if you are considering

moving to Birmingham for the first time, with liaison

and admin fees taken care of with our preferred

accommodation agency and support to establish

your family in jobs or education.

Connectivity in Birmingham

Connectivity just gets better and better in Birmingham with

a £4 billion investment in a new network of rapid transit

buses and trams improving travel across the city, and

development of New Street station. The High Speed 2 (HS2)

is another important catalyst. It will create 14,000 new jobs,

2,000 new homes and a £1.3 billion uplift to the city, as well

as providing quick and easy connection to both London and

Manchester.

There are all kinds of Birmingham. We’ve deliberately built variety into the Teacher Talent Team programme to help you find your kind.

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With our talent team, work in all kinds of schools

Suburban Schools

Inner City Schools

CHALLENGE:

• Diverse student population with, for instance, high

proportions of pupils with English as an additional

language

• A higher percentage of pupils from disadvantaged

backgrounds

• Lower post-school aspiration

• Suboptimal parental engagement

OPPORTUNITY:

• Gaining an increased understanding of inclusion

• Seeing how to use the Pupil Premium inventively

• Contributing towards a demonstrable ‘school effect’ on

overall student outcomes

CHALLENGE:

• Closing the attainment gap between students from

low income and high income families

• Ensuring that the most able maximise their potential

• Managing parental expectations

OPPORTUNITY:

• Expanding techniques to combat complacency and

coasting

• Learning how to stretch the Gifted & Talented

• Developing leadership and influencing skills

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Schools in Special Measures

Outstanding Schools and Teaching Schools

CHALLENGE:

• Maintaining excellence against changing regulatory

frameworks

• Going from good to great and beyond

• Personalising a broad and balanced curriculum to

meet the individual student needs

OPPORTUNITY:

• Chance to witness first-hand outstanding pedagogy

• Appreciate the input of a strong and coherent vision on

teaching practice

• Work with outstanding leadership, management and

teachers

• Improve repertoire of differentiation techniques

CHALLENGE:

• Structural obstacles

• Possibility of low morale amongst colleagues

• Behavioural issues

• Negative community perception

OPPORTUNITY:

• Gaining a strategic insight into school improvement

• Building resilience

• Improving ability to instil a disciplined learning

environment

• Further develop parental relationships initiatives

Special Schools

CHALLENGE:

• Developing pupils’ resilience and independence in

preparation for next stages of life

• Making accurate assessments of sustained progress

from individual starting points

• Learning to manage own emotions and responses

OPPORTUNITY:

• Work with a wide range of expert practitioners

• Hone pedagogical techniques

• Contribute to removal of barriers to learning and

achievement

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At the end of the programme you will have:

• Seen a wide range of professional

practice and pedagogy

• Enhanced ability to manage

change

• Played a key role in a self-

improving school system

• Assured contextualising skills

enabling you to adjust your

repertoire and interventions to

the prevailing school culture

• Enhanced self-evaluation,

reflection and self-improvement

ability

• Flexibility, adaptability and a

proven propensity for innovation

• Developed a keen understanding

of the benefits of collaboration

• Raised your professional profile

within the city

• The ability to adapt to and

evaluate many different

leadership, management and

teaching styles with 495 schools

across the city

• Preparation for leadership and

management

These qualities make you particularly

valuable to all Birmingham City

Schools. We hope you will want to

explore some of the new opportunities

available in this expanding and vibrant

city – with 438 schools, together with

the status you will have as a graduate

of the Talent Team programme, your

future is highly promising.

You may want to stay with one of the

schools you have already experienced

and you will be supported to choose

this option.

You may want to find your first

senior management role, building

on the development you have seen

throughout the programme.

You may choose to build on the

school-to-school experience within

Birmingham with a specialist or

consultancy role.

Whatever you want, there are all

kinds of futures available for you in

Birmingham.

ALL KINDS OF FUTURESWhere could your Teacher Talent Team experience lead you?

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To work in schools in Birmingham which are in need of well qualified, highly skilled and experienced teachers, helping the schools to achieve the outcomes required by Government regulations, the Education Improvement Plan and the individual school development plan. To develop their own teaching skills and careers, by extending their knowledge, experience and ability to contribute to improve outcomes for children and young people across the City.

TALENT TEAM JOB DESCRIPTION

Duties and Responsibilities:Duties and responsibilities within the

school or schools in which the teacher

is placed will be in accordance with the

School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions

Document and specifically to:

• Plan and teach lessons to the

classes they are assigned to teach

within the context of the school’s

plans, curriculum and schemes

of work;

• Assess, monitor, record and

report on the learning needs,

progress and achievements of

assigned pupils;

• Participate in arrangements for

preparing pupils for external

examinations and tests;

• Contribute to the development,

implementation and evaluation

of the school’s policies, practices

and procedures in such a way

as to support the school’s values

and vision;

• Work with others on curriculum

and/or pupil development to

secure co-ordinated outcomes;

• Promote the safety and well-

being of pupils;

• Maintain good order and

discipline among pupils;

• Direct and supervise support staff

assigned to them and, where

appropriate, other teachers;

• Where appropriate contribute

to the recruitment, selection,

appointment and professional

development of other teachers

and support staff;

• Deploy resources delegated to

them;

• Participate in arrangements for

the appraisal and review of their

own performance and, where

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appropriate, that of other teachers

and support staff;

• Participate in arrangements

for their own further training

and professional development

and, where appropriate, that of

other teachers and support staff,

including induction;

• Communicate with pupils, parents

and carers;

• Collaborate and work with

colleagues and other relevant

professionals within and beyond

the school.

Supervision received:• To carry out the professional

duties of a teacher under the

reasonable direction of the head

teacher of the school in which

he or she is placed and to be

given appropriate support and

supervision in accordance with the

Teachers’ Appraisal Regulations;

• To report for the purposes of day

to day management as specified

by the Head Teacher of the school

in which the teacher is placed;

• Additional professional

development and support will

be provided as part of the Talent

Team scheme.

Special Conditions:• The provisions of the School

Teachers’ Pay and Conditions

Document on working time will

apply;

• The duties required of a teacher

under this job description shall be

such as require the exercise of a

teacher’s professional skills and

judgement.

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This acts as selection criteria and gives an outline of the types of person and the characteristics required to undertake the role.

TALENT TEAM PERSON SPECIFICATION

Experience• A good and/or outstanding

classroom practitioner;

• Successful teaching experience

in schools in the UK or in schools

in countries where pedagogy

and curriculum are such that the

teacher can adapt quickly to the

English educational system.

Skills and abilities• Meets fully the Teachers’

Standards, parts A and B;

• To quickly build positive

relationships with children

and young people, parents,

external agencies, partners and

colleagues;

• Able and willing to work flexibly in

a range of school settings;

• Able to effectively use IT to

support both curriculum delivery

and work organisation;

• Able to work part of, and

contribute to, a whole-school,

multi-disciplinary team;

• Able to monitor, evaluate and

identify the necessary resources

to ensure high quality teaching

and learning;

• Able to accurately assess and

analyse pupil progress to inform

lesson planning.

Specialist Knowledge• In any of the core subject areas

in either primary or secondary

curriculum;

• Knowledge of child protection

and safeguarding in an education

setting.

Education, Qualifications and Training• Qualified teacher status (QTS) or

equivalent;

• Evidence of ongoing Continuing

Professional Development (CPD).

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• In the first instance, please

contact Educate’s advisers at the

contact details below to register

interest. They will discuss your

experience and the opportunity

in more depth and help you

decide if this is the right path for

you. They will keep you in touch

with developments and be able

to answer all your queries as you

consider the concept.

• Additionally and optionally,

you can attend one of our

Open Days on Monday 14th September or Monday 2nd November at Aston Business

School if you would like to meet

some of the staff with whom

you could be working with

and find out more about the

participating schools, as well

as networking with potential

Teacher Talent Team colleagues

and attending a presentation

about the programme. You

will have the chance here to

discuss the role face to face with

senior leadership from within

the schools, Teaching Schools

Alliances, Birmingham Education

Partnership and City Schools’ HR

Department.

• Once you have decided to pursue

this, complete an application

form and statement of

application in your own time, but

by 31st October for the inaugural

January 2016 intake.

• You will have a first formal

telephone or Skype interview with

an Educate consultant in October

or November.

• Successful candidates will

proceed to a second, panel,

interview during October or

November, which may be

conducted via Skype for remote

candidates.

• You will be notified of the

outcome and of your first

placement school shortly after

interview.

• Successful candidates will be

expected to attend our Talent

Team induction day on Tuesday

15th December and to start with

their first school in January 2016.

HOW TO APPLYPlease contact us to find out more information

TEACHER TALENT TEAMe: talentteam@educate.co.ukt: 020 3422 6511

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TEACHER TALENT TEAMe: talentteam@educate.co.ukt: 0203 422 6511

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