Leading Teacher

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan
Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025 - 25/01/2027
Organisation: Schools (Government)
Salary: Salary not specified
Occupation: Education and Training
Reference: 1439596
Job posted: 24/09/2024
Closes: 07/10/2024
Location ProfileCoolaroo South Primary School and Kindergarten is situated in a well-defined residential area in the City of Hume. The school is in a comprehensive community recreational precinct with proximity to a range of local facilities including public transport. Along with Foundation to Year 6 programs, Coolaroo South also facilitates a playgroup through our community hub. The school has excellent facilities with 13 well-resourced classrooms along with staff offices and spaces to allow for small teaching groups.
This year the school has an enrolment of 270. Its 49 staff include 2 principal class, 21 teaching staff and 26 ES staff. The SFO Index is 0.79 and its SFOE Index is 0.6. The school's community draws from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. It has a very high proportion of families from disadvantaged backgrounds and generally, very high numbers of newly arrived EAL learners.
Coolaroo South Primary School has spent time and energy in developing strategies, processes and procedures that not only improve student learning but provide a safe and efficient working environment. The school is a Respectful Relationships partner school and is focused on developing socially competent students who are aware of their responsibilities in the wider community. The school also works hard to build positive relationships with all families ensuring they feel safe and supported.
Coolaroo South Primary prides itself on its commitment to improving student achievement by offering all students a challenging academic program devised to meet their individual needs. All teaching teams implement inquiry cycles using the Professional Learning Communities (PLC) and the Extending Mathematical Understanding (EMU F-2) intervention model.
The school aims to connect all members of the community to learning and through its community hub, engages parents in a range of courses and programs preparing them for life in Australia.
The school is organised into single classes whenever possible. It provides instruction in Physical Education, Visual and Performing Arts, Science, and STEM. The school offers weekly Arabic immersion classes to mother tongue students for years 2 - 6.
Student wellbeing continues to be a high priority for staff. The school employs the equivalent of 1 EFT speech therapist who provides phonological work alongside teachers as well as individual clinical work for PSD students. A Play Therapist and student counsellor are employed to work individually with students experiencing social, emotional and behavioural challenges. All staff are trained in Berry Street (trauma informed practice) ensuring consistent implementation of these strategies.
Selection CriteriaSC1 Demonstrated expert knowledge of the relevant curriculum. Demonstrated ability to lead and manage the implementation of school priorities, and the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum.SC2 Demonstrated ability to lead the planning and implementation of high impact teaching strategies that respond to student learning needs. Demonstrated ability to support teachers to evaluate the impact of learning and teaching programs on student learning growth.SC3 Demonstrated exemplary ability to monitor and assess student learning at a class, cohort or whole-school level and use this data to lead improvement initiatives. Demonstrated ability to support others in using data to inform teaching practice and to provide feedback on student learning growth and achievement to students and parents.SC4 Demonstrated exemplary interpersonal and leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to lead collaborative relationships with students, colleagues, parents and the broader school community focused on student learning, agency, wellbeing and engagement.SC5 Demonstrated ability to model behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values and support colleagues to adopt these behaviours and attitudes. Demonstrated ability to reflect upon their own, others and whole-school practice and contribute to the provision of whole-school professional learning.SC6 Demonstrated ability to lead Professional Learning, liaise with Allied Health and coach staff to ensure reasonable adjustments are in place for students.RoleLeading teachers will be highly skilled classroom practitioners and undertake leadership and management roles commensurate with their salary range. The role of leading teachers is to improve the skill, knowledge and performance of the teaching workforce in a school or group of schools and to improve the curriculum program of a school.
Typically, leading teachers are responsible for coordinating a number of staff to achieve improvements in teaching and learning which may involve the coordination and professional support of colleagues through modelling, collaborating and coaching and using processes that develop knowledge, practice and professional engagement in others.
Leading teachers are expected to lead and manage a significant area or function within the school with a high degree of independence to ensure the effective development, provision and evaluation of the school's education program.
Leading teachers will be expected to make a significant contribution to policy development relating to teaching and learning in the school. A leading teacher has a direct impact and influence on the achievement of the school goals.
Leading teachers are usually responsible for the implementation of one or more priorities contained in the school strategic plan.
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.
ResponsibilitiesThe responsibilities of the Learning Specialist - Disability Inclusion role are as follows:
Model Coolaroo South PS values in all dealings with members of the school and broader community.Be the lead contact for Disability Inclusion within the school.Audit and, where needed, adapt current school wide inclusive education practices: including policies, processes and programs.Co-ordinate Disability Inclusion profile meetings and support all necessary stakeholders through the process.Provide evidence-based professional learning and coaching to school staff relevant to the objectives of the role.Liaise with the school's Student Support Services (SSS) key contact and Regional Disability Co-Ordinator.Support appropriate school staff, student and parent/carer(s) to contribute to Disability Inclusion profile meetings.Play a key role in supporting students with additional needs to make a smooth transition into the school, ensuring there are effective arrangements in place for efficient transfer of information between services.Provide leadership to students, parents and school staff involved in creating and implementing high quality IEP's for all students with a disability, including student and parent voice in setting learning targets.Work collaboratively with the student wellbeing team to support students with disability to develop positive social skills, body safety and resilience.Build staff capacity to understand and implement evidence-based teaching and learning strategies to support all student learning within their classroom, inclusive of students with additional needs that align with student IEP's.Act as a source of advice for staff with differentiated teaching strategies appropriate for individual students with additional needs.With support from the Assistant Principal, lead the identification and collection of students to be included in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data to better understand the needs of students with disability and how they can be best supported.Make a significant contribution as a member of the school Leadership team to support the implementation of the AIP and SSP.Job classification:Learning Specialist Range 3
Contact:Anne-Maree Grozdanoski | 03 9309 1664
To apply for this role, you will be redirected to the Schools (Government) job application system.
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