Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan
Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025
Organisation: Schools (Government)
Salary: Salary not specified
Occupation: Health and Allied Health
Reference: 1439675
Job posted: 25/09/2024
Closes: 08/10/2024
Classification: Classroom Teacher
Job duration: From 28/01/2025
Location ProfileTallangatta Secondary College is a small, country, coeducational secondary college located 40 kilometres northeast of Wodonga. The school draws its enrolment of 330 students from local schools within the Kiewa Valley and the broader Wodonga district. The College currently has 49 staff - 2 Principal staff, 31 teaching staff and 16 Education Support staff). Our current Student Family Occupation (SFO) is 0.42, with no students from a Language Background Other Than English (LBOTE).
Our Vision: Tallangatta Secondary College is committed to empowering all to become resilient and confident lifelong learners with a strong sense of self and community.
Our Mission: To progress student learning for every student, every day by inspiring confidence, resilience, and courage of thought to succeed in careers and challenges beyond the years at Tallangatta Secondary College. To empower students through student agency with their learning journey through an active partnership between students, staff and community that fosters a caring environment for learning, leadership, and stewardship. To build a culture of continuous improvement where high expectations, collective efficacy, and accountability to achieve student growth is our agreed moral purpose.
Our Values: Respect, Empathy, Attitude, and Learning.
Tallangatta Secondary College operates a horizontal curriculum, which offers semester and term length units of study across all Learning areas (Science, Languages, Humanities, Maths, English, Design & Creativity, Health & PE). Curriculum is backward mapped to ensure it is guaranteed and viable. The College also offers a comprehensive Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE), Vocational Education and Training (VET) and Vocational Major (VM) curriculum program.
In addition to the curriculum unit offerings, the school offers a broad range of co-curricular programs including; Student Leadership Team, Youth CFA, Tallangatta Herald Newspaper, Instrumental Music and Biennial Northern Territory tour and Overland Trek. The College is proud to offer to our year 9 students the Future Makers program in partnership with the Bogong Outdoor School.
The College has a one-to-one provision of leased school nominated devices as a learning tool and utilizes Compass as the web-based school management platform. Eight cycles of Learning Progress reporting supported by termly Student Led Conferences (SLC) ensures learning progress is monitored, shared, and celebrated.
A School Wide Positive Behaviour Support framework (SWPBS) builds a positive learning environment, along with our College values - Respect, Empathy, Attitude and Learning (REAL), 7-12 REAL homegroups and REAL mentors. The College has a school nurse, Mental Health Practitioner and Chaplain.
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.
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.
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