Learning Specialist

**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Fixed-term - Full-time

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Learning Specialist - Range 3

**Occupation**:Learning specialist

**Location**:Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs

**Reference**:1486454

**Location Profile**:
**Proudly Port Melbourne
- Where Excellence in Education Thrives**
- Join Port Melbourne Primary School (PMPS), where Excellence, Collaboration, and Community drive everything we do. Our connected, engaged, and positive community of educators, students, and families shapes the foundation for lifelong learning and success. Join us in creating a future where every student is empowered to excel.

**Be Part of an Innovative and Inclusive Community**
- With a unique location, nestled between the CBD and the bay, our school offers rich access to cultural resources and green spaces, enhancing the learning experience for both students and staff. Our team enjoys a rich social calendar, taking full advantage of the local dining scene, nearby nightlife, and vibrant community events.

**A Focus on Science-Informed Teaching**
- Our commitment to excellence extends to our instructional methods, with a shift towards science-informed, evidence-based teaching. At PMPS, we prioritise explicit direct instruction and structured literacy, ensuring that our teaching practices are grounded in proven science of learning methodologies. This approach builds a solid foundation in literacy and numeracy, helping each student achieve mastery and confidence in their learning.

**Nurture Your Professional Journey**
- We believe in cultivating the potential of each staff member. At PMPS, professional growth is a priority, supported through diverse development opportunities, both internal and external. Our culture of continuous learning ensures that every team member feels valued, included, and well-equipped to succeed. Collaboration and mutual respect are at the heart of our community, empowering our staff to lead and learn effectively.

**Teach in World-Class Facilities**
- When you join PMPS, you gain access to state-of-the-art facilities that foster innovative, high-quality education. With 80% of our campus newly constructed over the past decade, PMPS offers an inspiring environment, including an indoor basketball court, dedicated STEM and French teaching spaces, and a welcoming, modern staffroom. Here, you¿ll find everything needed to bring our Proudly Port Melbourne vision to life, building a community where achievement and belonging thrive.

**Selection Criteria**:
**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.

**Role**:

- 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.

**Responsibilities**:

- 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:

- Demonstrating high-level expertise in teaching and learn