Career Start Program Mentor 0.79 Fte Fixed-term

3 weeks ago

Melbourne, Australia Schools (Government) Full time

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time / From 07/10/2024 - 23/01/2026

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Teacher

Reference: 1437286

**Selection Criteria**:

- completion of a program of preparation on observation and evaluation skills
- expertise in instruction, classroom management, and continuous improvement, including the capacity to reflect on teaching practice and to use data, including student achievement data, to drive classroom decision-making
- meet the individual learning needs of all students and to support the development of these qualities in others
- strong personal and interpersonal skills
- supportive, communicative and inspiring
- ability to provide honest and direct feedback
- reflective listening and empathy

**Role**:
Career Start is a structured program for graduate teachers which aims to improve their experience as they are inducted into the profession. Career Start provides time release, mentoring, professional development opportunities and a range of additional supports to graduate teachers and their mentors to accelerate the development of graduate teachers¿ professional practice and support their wellbeing.

Mentors play an important supporting role for beginning teachers as they navigate their induction into the teaching profession. An essential element of mentoring beginning teachers is to assist them as they practice new strategies in their classrooms, guided by the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers as a framework.

This is a one-to-many position in that one mentor will support multiple graduate teachers through the program.

**Responsibilities**:
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

- observing and providing feedback
- observing and understanding teacher strengths
- modelling effective techniques and strategies
- co-planning
- co-teaching
- advising and supporting
- working with teachers to use data effectively
- engaging in problem-solving discussions
- conducting workshops to introduce new strategies
- developing and monitoring improvement plans and goals
- providing useful feedback.

**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**:
**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:
**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:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.

**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**:
Lilydale High School has a long tradition of providing excellent educational programs for students Years 7 to 12 and is highly regarded in the community. Great efforts are made to see that its students consistently attain outstanding achievements in a wide variety of areas, including VCE results, sports and community service activities. Collaborative decision-making processes, resulting in clearly defined policies and programs, aim to ensure that each child is challenged and extended academically, creatively, socially and physically.

Our Vision Statement underpins all the school¿s decisions and actions: Lilydale High School is dedicated to providing an environment that values academic excellence and maximises opportunities and pathways to enable all students to become resilient and contributing members of the community. In brief, Excellence in

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