Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: Salary not specified
Grade: Learning Specialist - Range 3
Occupation: Learning specialist
Location: Melbourne - Western suburbs
Reference: 1548462
Learning Specialist: Instructional Leader - Teaching and Learning (TAL)
Tenure: 27.1.2027 - 26.1.2029
Areas: English, Mathematics or Academic Intervention
Positions available: 7
Profile
Outstanding opportunity to work at Tarneit Rise Primary School
Tarneit Rise Primary School is a strong, inclusive community that proudly celebrates our diversity and multiculturalism, and we are recruiting!
Our Mission
Creating citizens for the future: compassionate, curious and strong.
Our Vision
We empower all students to achieve personal goals, experiencing high quality education and the best community for learning. This will ensure all learners have the knowledge, skills and attitudes to become lifelong learners, shaping the world around them and believing that, with effort, great things can be achieved.
Our Values
Respect, Responsibility, Kindness, and Growth
Our facilities are state of the art, our children are gorgeous, our curriculum is rigorous, and our leadership is strong. We are looking for teachers of any level of experience who will engage the evidence base so that they can make a difference.
TRPS is committed to drawing on the evidence base and cognitive science to design and map the curriculum, select effective instructional strategies- aligned to explicit teaching-, and structure lessons.
Our children and families are highly aspirational and respectful, consistently display a positive attitude, and are committed to learning. This positive and respectful school culture fosters academic excellence and personal growth, making our school a wonderful place to teach and learn.
Families and teachers are genuine partners in the learning process, ensuring our children strive to achieve their personal best and show kindness towards others.
If you would like more information about the school, or this position, please call or email the acting principal, Emma Gleeson on 70026580 or [email protected]
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.
SC6 Demonstrated capability to drive instructional excellence, while executing operational oversight and professional learning for a whole-school strategic improvement area.
Please provide your response to the criteria and your CV with 3 referees with contact details.
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.
Focus: To champion pedagogical excellence across Tarneit Rise Primary School through the modelling of exemplary Tier 1, 2, and 3 practices, and by leading strategic professional learning that measurably improves teacher impact and student growth.
1. Instructional Excellence: Model high-quality pedagogy by demonstrating precise delivery of, and fidelity to, Direct Instruction (DI) and Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI) frameworks through a collaborative classroom-sharing arrangement between two Learning Specialists.
2. Instructional Leadership: Provide professional learning and coaching in an identified academic curriculum area and its effective teaching to support teachers to understand the curriculum area, its sequence, and how to execute its instruction effectively.
3. Evaluating Pedagogical Impact: Analyse school wide cohort data to evaluate instructional effectiveness or to inform targeted academic intervention.
4. Whole-School Strategy: Drive the whole school implementation of teaching and learning priorities, including a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS), aligned with the school¿s priorities as described in the School Strategic Plan.
5. Operational Planning: Collaborate with the Teaching and Learning (T&L) Assistant Principals (APs) to monitor the health of the implementation of the whole school improvement area and oversee the management of its learning materials, and other learning specialists to ensure best practice.
5. Any other duties as determined by the principal
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.
The department is committed to diversity and inclusion and developing a workforce that is representative of the community we service. We value diversity and inclusion in all forms - culture, gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQA+, 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 safe, respectful and inclusive workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work and diversity across all schools and Department workplaces. It is our policy to provide reasonable adjustments for staff with disability (see Workplace adjustment guidelines).
Additional support and advice on the recruitment process is available to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander candidates from the Koorie Outcomes Division (KOD) via [email protected]
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.
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:
Details of qualification requirements as updated from time to time can be found at Recruitment in Schools.