Leading Teacher

**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Ongoing - Full-time

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Leading Teacher - Range 3

**Occupation**:Leading teacher

**Location**:Melbourne - Inner South East suburbs

**Reference**:1484337

**Location Profile**:

- Melbourne Girls' College empowers young women to strive for academic excellence, grow with resilience and self-belief, and lead courageously. We are driven by a commitment to shape socially conscious individuals who positively influence communities.
- We value Excellence - In our achievements and aspirations while always striving to give and be our best.
- Teamwork - Together, we know we can achieve so much more. We strongly believe that effective communication and the celebration of individuality within the team are crucial elements to developing an effective team-based and collaborative environment.
- Diversity - We are a richer community when we consider all perspectives and recognise and celebrate our differences.
- We challenge our students to think critically about their own beliefs and examine the world in fresh ways to promote creativity and innovation in an authentic, inclusive environment.
- The academic achievements of Melbourne Girls' College are strong and many of our students participate in the Student Excellence Program and the MGC Learning Extension and Advancement Program (LEAP). The curriculum at Melbourne Girls' College is designed to equip students with depth and breadth of knowledge, skills, and capabilities needed for success. Students are encouraged and challenged to strive for personal excellence, and we explicitly teach strategies, habits and behaviours that are deeply connedcted to a growth mindset. The school community takes pride in teaching students the transferable skills required to be socially conscious and to challenge stereotypes, particularly in women's leadership, sustainability, and philanthropy.
- Our International Student Program is thriving with a capacity to offer 80 positions of enrolment to full fee-paying international students.
- While our academic achievements are a publicly recognised strength of Melbourne Girls' College, we are equally committed to the personal, social, and emotional wellbeing of our students. We recognise the intrinsic link between wellbeing and effective learning and have adopted a whole-school approach to wellbeing. We have a Year 7 to 12 Homegroup and Wellbeing structure where each student explores a sense of their own abilities, achievements and self-worth. From the moment a student joins MGC they are connected to a homegroup and this strengthens their sense of belonging. Our homegroups facilitate effective communication between the College, and parents and carers where the homegroup teacher becomes a key contact, strengthening our home-school partnerships.
- The College prioritises and celebrates success and growth in the wholee person and MGC has a strong focus on co-curricular endeavours, particularly in rowing, aerobics, dance, and other school sporting programs. The College invests in creative, and artistic endeavours and experiences for students, particularly in the performing and visual arts through our instrumental program, and school productions. In additiona MGC has a thriving Australian Airforce Cadets program. The sustainabilty collective and environment projects are well known in the local and wider community.

**Selection Criteria**:

- SC1: Demonstrated expert knowledge of the relevant curriculum. Demonstrated ability to lead and manage the implementation of school priorities, and the teaching and 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.

**Role**:

- The Student Engagement and Wellbeing Leading Teachers plays a critical role in promoting a safe, inclusive, and engaging learning environment at Melbourne Girls¿ C