Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: Salary not specified
Grade: Learning Specialist - Range 3
Occupation: Learning specialist
Location: Melbourne - Western suburbs
Reference: 1489317
Wiyal Primary School is a new government school opening in Term 1 2026. It is located on Pear Parade, Fraser Rise. Wiyal Primary School will serve a rapidly growing community and provide a high-quality local education for students from Foundation to Year 6.
The school is being purpose-designed with flexible, inclusive learning environments. Facilities will include collaborative learning spaces, multiple play areas, a playing field, shade trees, and outdoor areas that support wellbeing, play, and exploration. The school will also integrate the latest technology as a tool to support learning, including iPads, laptops, and screens throughout the learning spaces.
Wiyal Primary School¿s vision is to create an engaging and inclusive school community where every individual feels valued, empowered, and supported to achieve success. This vision is captured in our motto `Empowering Excellence¿. This motto "Empowering Excellence" is more than just words. It inspires students to reach their full potential and creates a shared purpose for continuous improvement and achievement.
Our mission is to create a safe, welcoming and respectful learning environment that inspires and challenges all members of the school community to embrace learning and achieve academic, social, emotional and physical excellence. Students will develop a love of learning and become successful learners, confident individuals and active citizens.
We are committed to:
· having high expectations for all students and believing in their ability to learn and succeed.
· planning a guaranteed, viable and student focussed curriculum
· improving teaching and learning through evidence-based practices
· providing differentiated instruction to meet the diverse needs of all students
· embedding data driven decisions and rigorous assessment practices
· embedding highly effective Professional Learning Communities
· investing in a multi-tiered professional learning strategy
· establishing a positive climate for learning
· implementation of a multi-tier system of support (MTSS)
· activating student voice, leadership and agency
· fostering positive relationships with our families and wider community
· ensuring the school is responsive to the local needs of the community
The schools¿ values are courage, collaboration, kindness, learning and wellbeing - they are the heart of who we are!
Join Us:
For more information about Wiyal Primary School (including the vision, values, teaching and learning approaches, wellbeing strategies and how we will support our staff), please join our leadership team at our upcoming recruitment information session Monday 25 August at 5pm (online). To attend the session, please complete the following survey to receive your Webex invite. Invitations will be shared with registered attendees at 12pm on Monday 25 August. Survey link: https://forms.gle/nCPcrzBhGKhg46gF7
Application Details:
Please submit your Cover Letter, CV and responses to the Key Selection Criteria (KSC) as one PDF document titled with your name. Include the contact details of three referees (phone and email preferred).
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.
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.
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:
This role does include a teaching component and the successful candidate will spend time teaching as part of their key responsibilities.
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.