Graduate Teacher - Ongoing with $5,650 (pre-tax) Starting BONUS!Job posted: 06/11/2024
Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan
Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025
Organisation: Schools (Government)
Salary: Salary not specified
Occupation: Education and Training
Reference: 1449523
Location ProfileWe are seeking an enthusiastic and dedicated Graduate teacher to join our team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to inspire and educate students, promoting positive development in both their academic and personal lives. As a teacher, your responsibilities will include delivering high-quality instruction and supporting students with diverse learning needs.
At Roxburgh Homestead Primary School, our mission revolves around empowering students to make well-informed decisions, realise their maximum potential, and contribute meaningfully within a global society.
Situated within the City of Hume, Roxburgh Homestead Primary School is positioned in the suburb of Roxburgh Park. The school boasts appealing sandstone buildings and a convenient adjacency to a local historical site. Moreover, it benefits from its proximity to community amenities like a family day care center, kindergarten, and a local shopping complex. Roxburgh Homestead enjoys the advantages of a community marked by rich diversity in the cultural and socio-economic backgrounds of its residents. With 26 years of active service, the school presently accommodates 380 enrolled students.
Educational Focus and Initiatives
Our educational approach emphasises daily instruction in Literacy and Numeracy, following a school-wide teaching model. This model establishes connections to prior learning, fostering learning confidence to facilitate growth and extension. Our forward-looking 21st Century Design initiative ensures that students are immersed in not only STEM, but also the Arts, Physical Education, and well-being programs, all of which support deep-thinking skills and problem-solving capabilities.
Our all-encompassing strategy for nurturing active, informed, and healthy children revolves around promoting positive behavior. We collaborate closely with students and families to foster mental and character strength. Our core values of "Respect, Honesty, Pride, and Success" are deeply ingrained in the classroom, outdoor spaces, and online environments, shaping the expectations for our collective academic and social learning journey.
A key focus of the school is fostering curiosity-driven development of literacy and numeracy skills. Roxburgh Homestead employs a structured approach rooted in the Early Years model for these two curriculum areas, with a particular emphasis on oral language and vocabulary development. The Australian Curriculum serves as the framework for our curriculum delivery, ensuring the provision of high-quality learning programs.
To facilitate learning, students have access to over 500 ICT Devices throughout the school. Our approach to ICT integration across the curriculum prioritizes the seamless merging of technology. With comprehensive professional development opportunities for staff and IT education for all students, this approach equips Roxburgh Homestead to effectively support its students in tackling the educational challenges that lie ahead.
The school also offers specialized programs catering to students with special needs, as well as specialist programs in Visual Arts, Performing Arts, LOTE (Italian), and Physical Education.
Selection Criteria - GraduatesSC1 Demonstrated knowledge of the relevant curriculum, including the capacity to incorporate the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills. Demonstrated capacity to respond to student learning needs.
SC2 Demonstrated capacity to implement high impact teaching strategies, guided by how students learn, and evaluate the impact of learning and teaching programs on student learning growth.
SC3 Demonstrated capacity to monitor and assess student learning. Demonstrated capacity to use data to inform teaching practice and to provide feedback on student learning growth and achievement to students and parents.
SC4 Demonstrated interpersonal and communication skills. Demonstrated capacity to establish and maintain collaborative relationships with students, parents, colleagues and the broader school community to support student learning, wellbeing and engagement.
SC5 Demonstrated behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values. Demonstrated capacity to reflect upon practice and engage in professional learning to continually improve the quality of teaching.
Role - GraduatesThe primary focus of the range 1 classroom teacher is on further developing skills and competencies to become an effective classroom practitioner with structured support and guidance from teachers at higher levels and the planning, preparation and teaching of programs to achieve specific student outcomes.
Core responsibilities include:
Planning and implementing a range of teaching programs or courses of studyTeaching an area of the curriculum or a general curriculum to a year levelMonitoring, evaluating and reporting student progress in key learning areasImplementing strategies to achieve targets related to student learning outcomesMaintaining records of class attendance and recording student progressImplementing effective student management consistent with the school charter.Working with a mentor to participate in professional development planning, implementation and reflection developing a professional portfolioAdditional responsibilities may include but are not limited to:
Supervising a range of student activities including support and welfare programsContributing to a range of co-curricular programsWho May Apply - GraduatesTo be eligible to apply for a position advertised through the Teacher Graduate Recruitment program, a teacher must:
have completed their course requirements and graduated in the last 4 years, andnot be employed as a teacher by the department at the time the advertised position is to commenceApplicants must also be currently registered or eligible for registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching.
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.
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.
Conditions of EmploymentAll staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.
Appointment of successful applicants will be made subject to a satisfactory pre-employment conditions check. A probationary period may apply during the first year of employment and induction and support programs provided.
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