Teaching-Related Issues

Teaching-Related Issues

The teaching-related responsibilities of the full-time academic staff involve:  preparing lessons according to the course curriculum and outline,  ensuring that materials and resources are ready on time,  ensuring that classes start and end on time,  ensuring that the students are aware of instructional aims and objectives,  involving all learners through the use of a variety of interaction and task types,  ensuring that students are actively engaged in the learning process as much of a lesson as possible,  giving clear instructions, and explanations at an appropriate level and pace,  monitoring student work, check understanding and adapt lesson accordingly,  ensuring that students have opportunity to practise newly taught skills and language,  maximizing the use of English in the classroom and minimize reliance on the mother tongue,  forming a professional, objective and supportive relationship with students,  identifying students’ strengths, weaknesses, interests and problems and try to help them in these respects,  setting, marking, returning, and providing feedback on student homework and projects as agreed by the Syllabus Team,  keeping up-to-date attendance and enter the students’ attendance weekly on portal,  participating actively and constructively in compulsory training sessions and orientations,  checking emails daily in order to receive information from the teaching teams / FLEPS Administration on time,  visiting the FLEPS Website regularly in order to maintain a high awareness of developments and procedures at the school,  communicating with students, colleagues, and the FLEPS Administration in a positive, constructive and courteous manner,  dressing, appearing and acting at school in such a way as to ensure respect from students, colleagues, support staff and visitors, and to take into account in this regard of cultural sensitivities,  being sensitive to the needs of office mates in terms of such matters as having a quiet and tidy environment in which to work,  adhering to regulations concerning school resources and resource centres, and to treat all resources and equipment with due care,  contributing to the efficiency of meetings by being punctual, constructive, relevant, brief, and supportive of the chairperson,  maintaining a professional approach to all work-related matters, and actively help minimise personal disputes, rumour, etc.,  representing the school professionally and supportively both to students, and to other interested parties.