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Learning Specialist Range 3

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

3 days remaining

Job Description

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025 - 27/01/2028

Organisation: Schools (Government)

Salary: Salary not specified

Occupation: Education and Training

Reference: 1448124

Reference: 1448124

Occupation: Education and Training

Salary Range: Salary not specified

Work location: Melbourne | Southern 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 practice for improved student learning outcomes, the key roles of the Learning Specialists may include but are not limited to:

  • Demonstrating high-level expertise in teaching and learning practice
  • 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 and on their practice
  • Providing evidence-based feedback to teaching staff to inform their effectiveness and development
  • Providing expert advice about the context, processes and strategies that will shape individual and school professional learning
  • Supervising and training one or more student 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 included through seeking feedback from other teachers and leaders on their own classroom practice as part of critical reflection and inquiry to improve practice

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

Mirniyan Primary School will open Term 1, 2025 and will provide the growing local population access a 21st Century education with a vibrant and dynamic learning environment close to home. It will be able to enrol up to 650 students when the school is complete. The school is located at 75 Welsummer Drive Clyde North, 3978 in the southern- eastern growth corridor, in the City of Casey. The school is currently open for enrolments for students in Prep to Grade 6 through the VSBA website. The 2025 new school zones are published online at findmyschool.vic.gov.au. When open for Term 1, 2025 the school facilities will include learning neighbourhoods, an administration building a community hub, hardcourts and sports field/oval. Additional information can be found at: Thompsons West Primary School (interim name) | schoolbuildings.vic.gov.au

Mirniyan Primary School will be a state-of-the-art educational facility that from the outset will strive for high student achievement and excellence. Mirniyan Primary School will be a dynamic learning community providing diverse, nurturing and challenging educational opportunities. As a learning community, we will have a collective commitment to nurturing strong positive attitudes to lifelong learning to develop our students as empowered citizens with strong voice and agency by supporting them to reach their personal best and full potential, both academically and socially.

Our school will be diverse and culturally rich with large proportion of students having a language background other than English (LOTE) spoken in the family home. We are proud of and celebrate our diversity and inclusive school community.

We will recruit highly professional, dedicated and dynamic staff who are committed to ensuring all students achieve their personal best potential by constantly striving for their own continual professional growth and encouraging students to do the same in learning and wellbeing.

Thompson West Primary School principal and staff, along with our school community have the exciting opportunity to serve our local community to collaboratively develop an aspirational culture that is inclusive and welcoming, with high expectations for success.

Our vision is to develop confident and curious learners who respect and care themselves, others and our environment and always strive for growth.

Our mission is to develop the skills, attitudes, abilities, and dispositions of students to achieve their full academic, creative and emotional and social potential to enable them to be confident and responsible global citizens who can make positive lifelong contributions to society and the world.

To foster our dynamic, safe and secure learning environment, we promote and embed our school values of RESPECT, CARE and GROWTH. Our values are also integral to fostering positive and inclusive relationships across the school between staff, students, families and the community.

We respect ourselves, others and our lands and understand that our attitudes and behaviours influence and have an impact on us, the people and world around us.  

We care for ourselves, others and our environment by modelling and demonstrating kindness and thinking about the intention and impact of our behaviours and actions. 

We strive for growth, by working hard, having self- determination and perseverance when we are challenged, and we welcome mistakes as valuable learning.  

We aim to develop our students into:

¿        Passionate, confident, and curious learners with inquiring minds who have a lifelong love and joy of learning.

¿        Thriving and flourishing, empowered global citizens with highly developed learner agency and voice empowers them to impact positive change in their own lives and in the world around them.

As a school community, we live and breathe our values and have collective responsibility to nurture and develop positive learner dispositions and mindframes in all members of our learning community. Our learner disposition and mindframes will be embedded across the school curriculum and all school activities.

LEARNER DISPOSITIONS

CURIOUS -Staff and students cultivating curious and inquiring minds.

¿        COLLABORATIVE: works with others and is open to new and different ideas, perspectives, and opinions of others.

¿        UBIQUITOUS LEARNER: Has a curious mind and is a learner who believes that learning, thinking and creating are continuous, never ending and take place anywhere, anyhow, and anytime.

¿        REFLECTIVE RISK-TAKER: Willing to take risks, have a go and comfortable with the discomfort of challenge and stretch when learning. (Learning Pit.) Welcomes mistakes as valuable and opportunities to learn.  A goal setter, getter and assessor who seeks feedback, assesses learning strategies and processes applied and sets new goals to continually grow.

¿        INDEPENDENT AND INTERDEPENDENT LEARNER: a resourceful and independent learner with initiative and drive who also values working and learning together as a member of our learning community.

¿        OPEN-MINDED: Cultivates a Growth mindset- Willing to challenge one¿s thinking, be challenged by others, change one¿s mind, adapt and change their approach as new problems arise and willing to receive feedback.

¿        UNIFIED- We all belong and work together to cultivate a positive and inclusive learning community.

¿        SELF-DETERMINED: A determined and autonomous self-regulated learner who can be patient, persist and persevere when challenged and experiencing productive struggle.

STAFF MINDFRAMES FOR A POSITIVE LEARING CULTURE

¿        We have students at the centre.

¿        We all belong.

¿        We all continually grow and improve.

¿        We have high expectations and positive intent for all.

¿        We believe education is transformative.

STUDENT MINDFRAMES THAT ALLOW THEM TO THRIVE

¿        Know their current level of understanding.

¿        Know where they are going and are confident to take on the challenge.

¿        Select tools to guide their learning.

¿        Seek feedback and recognise that errors are opportunities to learn.

¿        Monitor their progress and adjust their learning.

¿        Recognise their learning and teach others.

We embrace contemporary research and evidence-based pedagogies and teaching and learning practices. We are committed to ensuring every student has the best possible opportunity to succeed, achieving academic and personal wellbeing success. We will provide an innovative, inclusive, and future focused learning environment where all stakeholders are expected to be creative and critical thinkers to achieve and thrive as learners, leaders and citizens.

As a learning community we are all invested in continually striving to learn and grow together to further develop our collective learner agency to ensure our students have the best possible learning and life outcomes.

The successful applicant will play an instrumental role in leading the development and implementation of contemporary educational practices to support the learning and wellbeing of all students across the school. This position is a fantastic opportunity for the right individual to join our leadership team and contribute to the establishment of a thriving and dynamic school for our students, staff and the wider school community as our school continues to grow and flourish over the years ahead.

Learning Specialist Range 3

Job type:

Full time / From 28/01/2025 - 27/01/2028

Job classification:

Learning Specialist Range 3

Contact:

Nicole Walker | 0438 441 216

Learning Specialist Range 3