Paraprofessional - Special Education
4 months ago
Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan
Job type: Full time / From 07/10/2024 - 27/01/2026
Organisation: Schools (Government)
**Salary**: Salary not specified
Occupation: Education and Training
Reference: 1433114
**Selection Criteria**:
KSC 1: Teaching & Learning
Provide evidence of an ability to plan and deliver an appropriate program to students with intellectual disabilities.
KSC2: Teaching Practice
Demonstrate an ability to actively engage students who have special needs, including sensory needs, in meaningful learning.
Evidence of successfully managing students with challenging and difficult behaviours using a Positive Behaviour Support framework.
KSC3: Assessment and reporting of student learning.
Ability to assess and report student progress. To provide reports to parents which keep them regularly informed of their children¿s progress.
KSC4: Interaction with the school community
Demonstrate high level communication and interpersonal skills when relating to students, parents and staff.
KSC5: Teamwork
Demonstrate an ability to work as a team member within a dynamic educational environment.
KSC6: Professional requirements
Demonstrate a commitment to ongoing professional growth, both on a personal level and school level.
**Role**:
- Perform according to the professional duties and standards set out in the Performance and Development Guidelines and the Principles of Learning and Teaching (PoLT)
- Conducting initial SSGs to establish ILPs (Individual Education Plans) followed by written reports, SSGs as requested by parents, followed by a final report and meeting with parents in Term 4.
- Direct teaching to the ability level of individual students in the group and according to their ILPs.
- Plan, prepare and deliver appropriate programs according to student goals, abilities and curriculum focus
- Maintain a work program according to the requirements set out in the Staff Handbook
- As a team leader direct the classroom assistant to tasks and learning activities required. To keep the classroom assistant up to date with student needs and plans for daily activities.
- Provide adequate and appropriate resources for student learning via Professional Learning Community (PLC) or curriculum coordinators.
- Maintain a safe working environment
- Develop and implement Student Wellbeing plans for students who require them
- Participate in meetings e.g. staff meetings, PLC/planning meetings camps and excursions.
- Are responsible for the health and wellbeing of all students in their care at all times
- Fulfill extra roles and duties as nominated
- Maintain regular contact with parents/carers via daily communication books, phone calls or personal contact.
- Work with and consult with the therapy team to achieve maximum outcomes for students in the classroom
- Yard Duty
- Other duties as requested by Leadership team.
**Responsibilities**:
The role of classroom teacher may include but is not limited to:
- Direct teaching of groups of students and individual students;
- Contributing to the development, implementation and evaluation of a curriculum area or other curriculum program within the school;
- Undertaking other classroom teaching related and organisational duties as determined by the School Principal;
- Participating in activities such as parent/teacher meetings; staff meetings; camps and excursions;
- Undertaking other non-teaching supervisory duties.
**Who May Apply**:
- Teachers who do not have an approved special education qualification but do have current provisional or full registration from the Victorian Institute of Teaching may apply. Preference will be given to applicants who have an approved special education qualification. Graduate Teachers are welcome to apply._
**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:
**Other Information**:
- All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.
**Conditions of Employment**:
- All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.
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