Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: Salary not specified
Grade: Leading Teacher - Range 3
Occupation: Leading teacher
Location: Gippsland - South Gippsland
Reference: 1482809
Established in 1955 and located in the South Gippsland Shire, Mirboo North Secondary College is a small rural college. We are proud of our long history as a community-oriented College offering a high-quality education to all students. We emphasise the merit of a robust partnership between our students, staff, parents and the local community. Mirboo North Secondary College is a modern, well-appointed single-campus college with a population of approximately 330 students and 50 staff members.
MNSC is a Year 7 ¿ 12 setting with a close working relationship with Mirboo North Primary School; including shared administration building, library and student services arrangements. The College culture is based on our vision and our core values consistent with a proud academic history and focus on - Respect, Trust and Pride. We balance this with essential Literacy and Numeracy mastery to ensure our learners know how to strive, to improve, to be their best and succeed.
We are extremely proud of our strong sense of community and we embrace individuals' differences and learning needs. Promoting and modelling respect, positive attitudes and behaviours is our core approach to teaching and learning. Strong mutual respect between our students, staff and the parent/carer community enables high expectations and we all aspire to improve student outcomes.
We are a Respectful Relationships school and endeavour to prepare our students for the social, emotional, physical and technical skill requirements for jobs of the future. Skills development is fundamental in our whole-school curriculum and our staff collaborate to guarantee our planning and classroom strategies encouraging the growth of every individual. We want all students who learn at Mirboo North Secondary College to build healthy relationships, resilience and confidence in themselves, so that whatever their chosen pathway, they move into their future as well-rounded and capable of meeting challenges.
Our Student Representative Council, known as VOS ¿ Voice of Students, plays an active role in providing feedback to staff and College Leadership about our Teaching and Learning Program. VOS members lead various school and year-level assemblies, as well as leading aspects of our House Cup system, the development of our annual school magazine, managing sport equipment lunchtime borrowing and incorporating awareness days for a variety of campaigns and initiatives that are important to our community.
Student management is organised in Middle School ¿ Year 7, 8 and 9 and Senior School ¿ Year 10, 11 and 12, with each led by a 3-staff member coordination team. At Year 7 and 8 students undertake a broad learning program to experience subjects across all domain areas and then at Year 9 and 10, students are guided to select a more personalised range of elective subjects to tailor their learning program. Teaching and Educational Support staff are passionate about education and working with young people in a safe, positive, challenging and caring environment.
The overall curriculum program from Years 7 ¿ 10 affords students the opportunity to develop skills necessary to transition well to their chosen senior secondary certificate pathway.
Both VCE and VM pathways are offered for Year 11 and 12 students to complete their senior secondary school certificate and both pathways, accommodate the option of undertaking Vocational and Educational Training (VET). We have strong links with several external TAFE and RTO providers to enable this as well as being closely linked with the HeadStart Program. University enhancement programs are available options for capable students who are encouraged to compete at this level.
Please contact the College at any time or visit us at https://www.mnsc.vic.edu.au for further information about our curriculum, programs, approach to teaching and learning or our vision for the College moving into the future.
SC1 Demonstrated expert knowledge of the relevant curriculum. Demonstrated ability to lead and manage the implementation of school priorities, and the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum.
SC2 Demonstrated ability to lead the planning and implementation 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 monitor and assess student learning at a class, cohort or whole-school level and use this data to lead improvement initiatives. 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 leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to lead collaborative relationships with students, colleagues, parents and the broader school community focused on student learning, agency, wellbeing and engagement.
SC5 Demonstrated ability to model behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values and support colleagues to adopt these behaviours and attitudes. Demonstrated ability to reflect upon their own, others and whole-school practice and contribute to the provision of whole-school professional learning.
Leading teachers will be highly skilled classroom practitioners and undertake leadership and management roles commensurate with their salary range. The role of leading teachers is to improve the skill, knowledge and performance of the teaching workforce in a school or group of schools and to improve the curriculum program of a school.
Typically, leading teachers are responsible for coordinating a number of staff to achieve improvements in teaching and learning which may involve the coordination and professional support of colleagues through modelling, collaborating and coaching and using processes that develop knowledge, practice and professional engagement in others.
Leading teachers are expected to lead and manage a significant area or function within the school with a high degree of independence to ensure the effective development, provision and evaluation of the school's education program.
Leading teachers will be expected to make a significant contribution to policy development relating to teaching and learning in the school. A leading teacher has a direct impact and influence on the achievement of the school goals.
Leading teachers are usually responsible for the implementation of one or more priorities contained in the school strategic plan.
In recognition of the importance of leadership and management combined with exemplary teaching practice for improved student learning outcomes, the key roles of the leading teachers may include but are not limited to:
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.
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 [email protected]
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
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
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.