Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan
Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025 - 26/01/2027
Organisation: Schools (Government)
Salary: Salary not specified
Occupation: Education and Training
Reference: 1460723
Job posted: 24/12/2024
Closes: 06/01/2025
Location ProfileEssendon Keilor College is a multi-Campus College located in a pleasant environment close to the airport and the city in the western suburbs of Melbourne.
There are many sporting and cultural facilities within the area and an excellent public transport system.
The city is only 20 minutes away by train.
The Essendon Keilor College philosophy is centred around the rights and responsibilities of students and staff to work in a stimulating and innovative learning environment focused on a curriculum program that is forward-looking and responsive to the contemporary world.
Students are supported and encouraged to reach their full social, emotional, and educational potential.
They are expected to be fully focused on their learning program, to respect the rights of others, and to participate actively in a broad range of college curriculum programs and extracurricular activities.
The College recognises and rewards outstanding student performance, endeavours to build a strong connection with students through sport and performing arts programs, promotes student leadership, and encourages positive student-teacher relationships.
The College provides a coherent, challenging, and engaging curriculum to a broad range of students from diverse cultural backgrounds.
The College has a strong commitment to the surrounding educational community and participates in innovative programs involving students and teachers in primary and secondary schools in the local area.
Selection CriteriaSC1: Demonstrated expert knowledge of the relevant curriculum.
Ability to model exemplary teaching practice, including the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum, and implement school priorities.
SC2: Expertise in the implementation and modelling of high impact teaching strategies that respond to student learning needs.
Ability to support teachers to evaluate the impact of learning and teaching programs on student learning growth.
SC3: Exemplary ability to model the monitoring and assessment of student learning.
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: Exemplary interpersonal and communication skills.
Ability to engage in collaborative relationships with students, colleagues, parents, and the broader school community to support student learning, agency, wellbeing, and engagement.
SC5: Ability to model behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values.
Ability to support others to reflect on their practice and facilitate school-based professional learning.
RoleLearning Specialists will be highly skilled classroom practitioners who continue to spend the majority of their time in the classroom delivering high-quality teaching and learning and have a range of responsibilities related to their expertise, including teaching demonstration lessons, observing and providing feedback to other teachers, and facilitating school-based professional learning.
Learning Specialists are expected to have deep knowledge and expertise in high-quality teaching and learning in delivering improved achievement, engagement, and wellbeing for students.
The role of the Learning Specialist will be to model excellence in teaching and learning through demonstration lessons and mentoring and coaching teachers in improving the skill, knowledge, and effectiveness of the teaching workforce.
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.
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.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.
Job classification:Learning Specialist Range 3
Contact:Adam Potter | 93758400
To apply for this role, you will be redirected to the Schools (Government) job application system.
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