ECT Geography Teacher – Secondary School – Doncaster

A welcoming and well-structured secondary school in Doncaster is seeking an enthusiastic Early Career Teacher (ECT) of Geography to join its thriving Humanities department. This is an excellent opportunity for a newly qualified teacher to start their career in a school with strong routines a clear curriculum and a supportive mentoring culture that helps ECTs build confidence quickly.

The school serves a diverse local community and is known for its calm learning environment consistent behaviour systems and a leadership team that values professional development and staff wellbeing.

The Role

As ECT Geography Teacher you will teach across Key Stages 3 and 4 delivering a well-sequenced curriculum that develops students place knowledge geographical understanding and enquiry skills. You will be supported to plan and teach lessons that:

• Build secure knowledge of physical and human geography through clear explanation and modelling

• Develop map graph and data interpretation skills with regular practice

• Strengthen extended writing using structure vocabulary support and guided planning

• Encourage curiosity and discussion through contemporary case studies

Students explore a broad range of topics such as tectonics weather and climate rivers and coasts ecosystems urban change development and global challenges. Lessons are designed to help students think like geographersasking questions analysing evidence and making reasoned judgements.

You will receive support with planning assessment and classroom routines to ensure you feel confident and effective from the start.

ECT Support and Development

This role offers strong ECT support and an induction programme aligned to the Early Career Framework. You will benefit from:

• Regular mentoring from an experienced Geography teacher

• Protected time for training planning and reflection

• Coaching on behaviour routines adaptive teaching and assessment

• Opportunities to observe strong practice within Humanities and across the school

• Collaborative planning and shared resources to reduce workload

The school understands the demands of the first years of teaching and provides a structured pathway to developing excellent practice.

The Department

The Humanities department is friendly collaborative and supportive with a shared commitment to high standards and a positive learning culture. Staff plan together share resources and work as a team to ensure pupils experience consistent high-quality teaching.

Geography is well regarded within the school and students enjoy exploring how the world works and how people and places are connected. The department values enquiry-led learning and ensures students build the skills they need for GCSE success: analysis evaluation data interpretation and high-quality written responses.

Enrichment opportunitiessuch as themed events clubs and educational visitsare encouraged where possible to broaden students geographical understanding.

The School

The school has clear behaviour expectations and consistent routines that create calm purposeful classrooms. Leaders are visible and supportive and staff benefit from professional development that is practical subject-relevant and designed to improve classroom practice.

The school is committed to inclusion and ensures that all learners including those with SEND and EAL are supported through high-quality teaching thoughtful scaffolding and targeted intervention.

What the School is Looking For

The successful candidate will:

• Be an ECT (or soon-to-qualify) and hold or be working towards QTS

• Have strong subject knowledge in Geography

• Deliver well-structured lessons that build knowledge and confidence

• Be committed to developing through mentoring coaching and feedback

• Create a calm positive classroom culture with high expectations

• Work collaboratively within a supportive Humanities team

Why Join This School

• Strong ECT induction programme with supportive mentoring

• Collaborative Humanities team with shared planning and resources

• Clear behaviour systems that support confident teaching

• High-quality CPD and opportunities to grow

• Welcoming Doncaster school community focused on student progress

This is a fantastic opportunity for an Early Career Geography teacher to build confidence develop excellent classroom practice and inspire students to understand the world in a supportive Doncaster secondary school.