Classroom Teacher

Applications close Tuesday 4 March 2025 at 11.59PMOverviewWork type: Full time Salary: Salary not specified Grade: Classroom Teacher Occupation: Teacher Location: Sunbury Reference: 1466126Location ProfileWillowbank Primary School opened in 2022 for all year levels, Prep to Year 6 and is located at 385 McGeorge Road, Gisborne.
The school has a current enrolment of 373 students and facilities for a long-term enrolment of 475 students.
The state-of-the-art school facilities include general teaching spaces and specialist facilities for music, science, food technology and physical education.
The outdoor facilities include a soccer field, basketball courts, kitchen garden, a performing arts stage, play spaces and undercover areas.
Willowbank Primary Schools vision is to be an inclusive school community where everyone is empowered to achieve excellence.
This vision is captured in our motto 'Achieving excellence, together'.
We provide a safe and inclusive learning environment that inspires and challenges all members of the community to embrace learning and achieve academic, social, emotional, and physical excellence.
Willowbank Primary School is committed to:Developing a whole-of-school culture of excellence and inclusion.Establishing a safe, inclusive, and supported learning environment that is conducive to learning.Developing a professional learning community that is focused on the continuous improvement of teaching and learning and takes a collective responsibility for improving student learning outcomes.Implementing high quality learning and pedagogical practices that maximise the opportunities presented in our inclusive and contemporary learning spaces.Developing a strategic approach to the professional learning of staff and the ongoing development of the school's culture of inclusion and excellence.Delivering a high quality, student focussed, rigorous and relevant curriculum that meets the learning needs of all students.Empowering learners to take ownership and be active participants in their own learning.Building resilience and supporting students to be happy, healthy, and confident individuals.Engaging with parents, carers, and the wider community as genuine partners in learning, striving to achieve the best possible outcomes for students.Creating a community hub that links families and children to services and support.Selection CriteriaSC1: Demonstrated knowledge of the relevant curriculum, including the ability to incorporate the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills.
Demonstrated experience in responding to student learning needs.SC2: Demonstrated experience in planning for and implementing high impact teaching strategies, guided by how students learn, and evaluating the impact of learning and teaching programs on student learning growth.SC3: Demonstrated experience in monitoring and assessing student learning.
Demonstrated experience in using data to inform teaching practice and providing feedback on student learning growth and achievement to students and parents.SC4: Demonstrated interpersonal and communication skills.
Demonstrated experience in establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with students, parents, colleagues and the broader school community to support student learning, agency, wellbeing and engagement.SC5: Demonstrated behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values.
Demonstrated experience in reflecting upon practice and engaging in professional learning to continually improve the quality of teaching.RoleThe classroom teacher classification comprises two salary ranges- range 1 and range 2.
The primary focus of the classroom teacher is on the planning, preparation and teaching of programs to achieve specific student outcomes.
The classroom teacher engages in critical reflection and inquiry in order to improve knowledge and skills to effectively engage students and improve their learning.As the classroom teacher gains experience his or her contribution to the school program beyond the classroom increases.
All classroom teachers may be required to undertake other duties in addition to their rostered teaching duties provided the responsibility is appropriate to the salary range, qualifications, training and experience of the teacher.ResponsibilitiesThe role of classroom teacher may include but is not limited to:Direct teaching of groups of students and individual students;Contributing to the development, implementation and evaluation of a curriculum area or other curriculum program within the school;Undertaking other classroom teaching related and organisational duties as determined by the School Principal;Participating in activities such as parent/teacher meetings; staff meetings; camps and excursions;Undertaking other non-teaching supervisory duties.Who May ApplyTeachers currently registered or eligible for registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching and qualified to teach and/or have demonstrated experience in the curriculum area(s) specified for the position.EEO AND OHS CommitmentApplicants seeking part-time employment are encouraged to apply for any teaching service position and, if they are the successful candidate, request a reduced time fraction.
Such requests will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis and will be subject to the operational requirements of the school.The Department of Education is committed to the principles of equal opportunity, and diversity and inclusion for all.
We value diversity and inclusion in all forms - gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, disability and neurodiversity.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for roles within the Department.
The Department recognises that the provision of family friendly, supportive, safe and harassment free workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work, diversity and safety across all schools and Department workplaces.Child Safe StandardsVictorian government schools are child safe environments.
Our schools actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students, and all school staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm in the school environment, in accordance with their legal obligations including child safe standards.This vacancy is to replace an employee on parental absence and is for a period of seven years or until the employee absent on leave returns to duty at the school.VIT LANTITETo be eligible for employment, transfer or promotion in the principal or teacher class a person must have provisional or full registration from the Victorian Institute of Teaching.
In addition, from 3 August 2020, to be eligible for employment in the principal class or teacher class, a person who graduated from a Victorian Initial Teacher Education program after 1 July 2016, must demonstrate that they have passed the literacy and numeracy test for initial teacher education (LANTITE) requirements.Applications close Tuesday 4 March 2025 at 11.59PM
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