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Learning Specialist: Learning Design and Data

Job posted: 31/10/2024
Applications close: 13/11/2024 (Midnight)
3 days remaining

3 days remaining

Job Description

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025

Organisation: Schools (Government)

Salary: Salary not specified

Occupation: Education and Training

Reference: 1448483

Reference: 1448483

Occupation: Education and Training

Salary Range: Salary not specified

Work location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan

Selection Criteria

SC1      Demonstrated expert knowledge of the relevant curriculum. Demonstrated ability to model exemplary teaching practice, including the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum, and implement school priorities.

SC2      Demonstrated expertise in the implementation and modelling 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 model the monitoring and assessment of student learning. 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 communication skills. Demonstrated ability to engage in collaborative relationships with students, colleagues, parents and the broader school community to support student learning, agency, wellbeing and engagement.

SC5      Demonstrated ability to model behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values. Demonstrated ability to support others to reflect on their practice and facilitate school-based professional learning.

Role

Learning 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.

The Learning Specialist role is aimed at building excellence in teaching and learning within the Teaching Service.

Responsibilities

In recognition of the importance of exemplary teaching practice for improved student learning outcomes, the key expectations of this Learning Specialist include but are not limited to: 

¿ Demonstrating high-level expertise in teaching and learning practice; 

¿ Provide a child safe environment in accordance with the child safe standards;

 ¿ Modelling exemplary classroom practice including through teaching demonstration lessons;

 ¿ Working with the school leadership team to develop a shared view of highly effective teacher practice; 

¿ Leading and modelling the implementation of whole-school improvement strategies related to curriculum planning and delivery; 

¿ Playing a key role in the provision of professional learning, including through developing processes and protocols for observation and feedback of teacher practice and peer collaboration; 

¿ Modelling effective learning practice and supporting teachers to seek, analyse and act on feedback on their practice; 

¿ Providing evidence-based feedback to teaching staff to inform their effectiveness and development; 

¿ Providing expert advice about the content, processes and strategies that will shape individual and school professional learning; 

¿ Supervising and training one or more pre service teachers, and mentoring and/or coaching teachers; 

¿ Modelling exemplary use of student data to inform teaching approaches;

 ¿ Developing and promoting school-wide professional learning structures, processes and protocols through Professional Learning Communities;

 ¿ Modelling exemplary professional learning practice including through seeking feedback from other teachers and leaders on their own classroom practice as part of critical reflection and inquiry to improve practice

 

The Learning Specialist: Learning Design and Data will support colleagues to deepen their data literacy skills and importantly to assist colleagues to measure the impact of their pedagogical practices on student learning. The Learning Specialist will also support the Leadership Team to use data to drive school improvement initiatives and to assist colleagues tailor these initiatives to support the diverse needs of their cohorts.

 Specific Position Responsibilities: 

1. Take a leading role in building teacher capacity to understand and use data to improve student learning performance.

 ¿ Work with PLC leaders and instructional coaches to embed the PLC initiative, including providing support in identifying, collating and analysing student learning data sets to best measure the impact of their theory of action.

 ¿ Develop tools to support the senior sub-schools and Careers counsellor in pathways and transitions processes 

¿ Work closely with the senior sub-schools and faculties to identify and analyse VCAA data sets in order to set faculty and PLC goals

 ¿ Provide professional learning to sub-schools and ES staff with effective data strategies to monitor attendance.

 ¿ Support the English and Mathematics faculty leaders, and the Wellbeing and Inclusion leader to monitor the learning growth of priority cohorts including equity funded students, Middle Years Literacy and Numeracy Support students and other students deemed to need close monitoring.

 ¿ Collaborate with the Leadership Team to diagnose, plan, implement and monitor school-wide data and assessment practices and schedules. 

2. Work collaboratively with teachers, faculty leaders and the Leadership Team to adapt curriculum and programs to align with the Victorian Curriculum 2.0. 

3. Work with the Assistant Principal: Teaching and Learning, fellow Learning Specialist and broader Leadership Team to facilitate professional learning with a focus on explicit teaching and scaffolding of student learning .

 

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. 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. It is our policy to provide reasonable adjustments for persons with a disability (see Workplace adjustment guidelines).

Additional support and advice on the recruitment process is available to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders from the Koorie Outcomes Division (KOD) via marrung@education.vic.gov.au

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. All schools have a Child Safety Code of Conduct consistent with the department's exemplar available at:

 https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/child-safe-standards/policy

DE Values

The department's employees commit to upholding the department's Values: Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights. The department's Values complement each school's own values and underpin the behaviours the community expects of Victorian public sector employees, including those who work in Victorian Government Schools. Information on the department values is available at:

 https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/values-department-vps-school-employees/overview

Conditions of Employment

  • All 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.
  • Detailed information on all terms and conditions of employment is available on the Department's Human Resources website at http://www.education.vic.gov.au/hrweb/Pages/default.aspx

VIT LANTITE

To 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. This condition is satisfied where the LANTITE requirement is part of the Victorian Initial Teacher Education program completed by the person.

Location Profile

Richmond High School is a local, co-educational school in the City of Yarra. The vision of the school is to create an inclusive, high quality school in which all students learn and thrive. Our core values are Diversity, Creativity, Expectations and Intelligence and our motto is 'Make a Difference', by which we refer both to our capacity to make a difference in young people's lives and to our students' ability to make a positive difference in the community. Since opening in 2018, the school has added one year level cohort each year, finally becoming a full 7-12 secondary school in 2023. The school's main campus is located on Griffiths Street in Richmond, with a second building - the school gym - on Gleadell Street. In 2024, the school has a cohort of 545 students and 75 staff members. A notable feature of the school is the Bilingual Chinese program which is unique, offering students who have previously studied Chinese in a bilingual setting the opportunity to extend their skills and cultural understanding further. The school enrols students from a wide range of local primary schools.

Learning Specialist: Learning Design and Data

Job type:

Full time / From 28/01/2025

Job classification:

Learning Specialist Range 3

Contact:

Andrea Thompson | 03 8396 6399

Learning Specialist: Learning Design and Data