British Council strives to deliver excellence in every classroom, across its global network of teaching centres. Our aim is to help students and their sponsors and parents achieve their English language learning and life goals. To ensure this high quality experience for our students, our teaching centres adhere to a global set of teaching standards which are used throughout the teacher recruitment process, for classroom observations, within structured performance management, for learning and development and as a measure of the quality of teaching in the classroom.  The standards include teacher skills, behaviours, specialist skills and professional practices.

As part of the Teaching Excellence Project, a British Council team is now focused on revising and updating the current standards and skills for teachers to produce a clear framework of teaching excellence levels with a robust measurement approach including classroom quality, classroom experience and alignment of the standards with internal and external frameworks. 

The process is designed to ensure the customer is at the heart of everything that we do, helping them achieve their goals by ensuring British Council teachers have the ability to perceive and respond to student needs and goals and have the appropriate skills and professional practices to deliver in the classroom.

About the role:

The role of the consultant will be

• to take an overview of the work completed by this team and provide specific feedback as appropriate
• to comment on the approach and ensure it is customer focused and offers best practice for individual life stages, as per external frameworks
• to analyse the text and ensure consistency in tone and language
• to identify gaps or missing items and/or suggest amendments
• to highlight errors and/or areas for improvement as per current best practice

The overall aim is to produce an up to date set of standards which align to internal and external frameworks which can be used across the global teaching centre network to improve the experience the learner receives both in and out of the classroom with British Council..  

Duration and location:

It is expected that this work could be completed within a short period of time - we anticipate 4 days - and it will need to be completed during the month of March, 2020. 

It is expected that the work will be completed from the consultant's home base and travel to overseas operations will not be necessary.

Qualification and experience required:

1. International work experience and understanding of the EFL sector
2. Proven understanding of customer focused approaches and student centred learning
3. Experience with quality assurance, teaching standards, skills and behaviours
4. Working knowledge and experience of quality
5. Experience in analysing text and providing written feedback in a user friendly format  
6. Relevant qualifications in ELT
7. Experience in the private ELT school sector and a knowledge of context and related global issues

We hope you will find the above interesting and would like to invite you to submit a proposal to include:

• Relevant track record addressing the criteria above
• Samples and/or links to relevant work as per the criteria
• References from at least two clients, with contact details

The criteria used to assess proposals will include a focus on quality, approach and value for money.