Job posted: 02/10/2024
Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan
Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025
Organisation: Schools (Government)
Salary: Salary not specified
Occupation: Teacher
Reference: 1440018
Closes: 15/10/2024
Classification: Classroom Teacher
Job duration: From 28/01/2025
Location Profile Hallam Secondary College is in Southeast Melbourne on the lands of the Bunurong. Learning communities have flourished on this land for more than 30,000 years. The current College has been on this site since 1971 and is going through exciting change.
Over the next 4 years:
HSC will be reorganised and expanded to cater for growing demand in south-east Melbourne and give families certainty they will have a quality local school for their entire secondary schooling journey. The school is progressively moving from a Year 10-12 to a Year 7-12 school from Term One 2023, allowing it to increase enrolments. The current strengths at senior level in vocational education and its Sports Academy to be supplemented by a broader offering of VCE subjects for its growing student cohort. Our Vision and Mission is to create a school that:
Is a true learning community Is a safe, calm and happy environment Is a place students wish to attend, staff want to work and parents feel welcome Fulfills student potential Prepares students for life beyond school Our current enrolment sits at over 500 students with an SFOE of 0.566. We primarily enrol students from the Hallam, Eumemmerring and Doveton suburbs with many Senior students travelling in from further afield. Our current staffing profile consists of an Executive Principal, three Assistant Principals, six Leading Teachers, four Learning Specialists, 38 Classroom Teachers and 24 Educational Support staff.
We are a medium-sized College serving a culturally and ethnically diverse community. Our size enables us to know every student and offer a range of programs that are more commonly found in a large school.
Our 2022 to 2026 Strategic School Plan goals are to:
Maximise each student's achievement and learning growth Maximise each student's wellbeing and engagement in learning Our Values of Achievement, Care and Equity underpin all our work.
Selection Criteria SC1: 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. Role The 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.
Responsibilities The 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 Apply Teachers 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 Commitment Applicants 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.
Child Safe Standards Victorian 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.
The department's employees commit to upholding the department's Values: Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights.
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