Leading Teacher

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025 - 27/01/2028

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Education and Training

Reference: 1450362

**Location Profile**:
Established in 1955, Brighton Secondary College has a tradition of excellence. Students are offered an outstanding program in a structured supportive and caring environment in which they are encouraged to reach their full potential. The school is set in a leafy bayside suburb close to the beach and the city.

The school has a strong international focus. It is an accredited International Baccalaureate Organisation World school and offers the IB Diploma program as a senior pathway option. The school is also a member of the Council of International Schools.

**Visions and Values**

VISION

Brighton Secondary College is a safe place where all have the opportunity to achieve personal excellence through collaboration based on respect, empathy and integrity.

MISSION

Our mission at Brighton Secondary College is to develop future-ready global citizens

We strive to prepare young people to thrive and contribute in the world beyond school. We do this by creating responsible, empathetic citizens who are adaptable, life-long learners and critical thinkers.

VALUES LIVED

Excellence
- We strive for personal best in all pursuits
- We take pride in what we do
- We make the most of all opportunities we are given.

Curiosity
- We strive for understanding
- We encourage learning
- We question and seek solutions

Respect
- We treat others as they would like to be treated.
- We take pride and respect in ourselves and our environment
- We accept and celebrate difference and diversity.

Integrity
- We take ownership for our actions and embrace constructive feedback.
- We follow through on our intentions.
- We are honest and transparent

Empathy
- We are sensitive to the needs of others
- We try to understand the needs of all min our school community.
- We listen in order to understand.

Teamwork
- We share knowledge and harness our collective strengths.
- We collaborate with others to work towards common goals.
- We believe everyone has a responsibility to contribute.

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

**SC6 **Demonstrated ability to lead change and build the college's positive school culture by supporting and motivating teams to deliver new ideas and initiatives to an exemplary standard.

**Role**:
Leading teachers will be highly skilled classroom practitioners and undertake leadership and management roles commensurate with their salary range. The role of leading teachers is to improve the skill, knowledge and performance of the teaching workforce in a school or group of schools and to improve the curriculum program of a school.

Typically, leading teachers are responsible for coordinating a number of staff to achieve improvements in teaching and learning which may involve the coordination and professional support of colleagues through modelling, collaborating and coaching and using processes that develop knowledge, practice and professional engagement in others.

Leading teachers are expected to lead and manage a significant area or function within the school with a high degree of independence to ensure the effective development, provision and evaluation of the school's education program.

Leading teachers will be expected to make a significant contribution to policy development relating to teaching and learning in the school. A leading teacher has a direct impact and influence on the achievement of the school goals.